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I have two airplay speakers and one apple tv which I use to play music throughout the house. The system works very well with only one complaint. The sound on the apple tv is always slightly our of sink with the sound on the other two speakers. I use one Philips sound ring and one set of speakers connected to an airport express.
Same situation here. I have multiple Airport Express units, of varying generations that all sync with each other just fine. The Apple TV is the only one out of step with everything. It's currently patched in to a Sony Google TV, with a Sony sound system.
Miranda,
Read my first post. it may help you a little. playing with the volume will help but not much. until more people reply to this and make a bigger stink with this I do not see it being fixed. I like you bought into the idea of paying $99 to have a house party of music is a fail!
Thank you for replying to this, you got me thinking it may be a sony problem. My Atv is connected to an Xbr6 tv so maybe it could be the tv/sony stuff holding back the signal. Church if you are still reading this what do you think???
i think i have now got to the bottom of the issue... the speakers that are in sink are running directly off the wifi network the speakers on the apple tv are working through the via the apple TV thought the Tv and back to the surround sound systesm via fiber optic which is what account for the delay. When i run the sound on the speaker from the Tv the sound is in sink with the other wifi speakers.....My conclusion the surround sound system via the optical output is causing the dalay......i am now playing with the settings ont he surround sound system...thanks for the contributions
Hello Church,
I am sure you are tired of hearing from me but one last question? How do you have this stuff hooked up? Mainly the apTV? The reason I ask There are a few new posts that I have read with this sync issue. People say they solved this by by-passing the the audio out of their tv or with samsung tv's there is a way to shut off some type of delay setting. I have a Sony XBR6 so no help to me. Most went strait to there receiver or just the sound out of the tv speakers. I tried it and I think that did it for me but it is hard to tell because tv speakers stink to put it nicely.
Thanks for all your help with this and all of your other posts.
I had this problem as well. Worked out that apple TV was slower because i run it through the amp and the amp tries to upgrade the sound to digital. ANSWER - if you chnaged setting on the amp so the sound source is set on multi chanle and not dolby digitial this fixs the problem.
Thanks
Hello- new here. I just set up my new airplay speaker. I currently have appletv connected to my stereo receiver. How do I stream music to both appletv and the airplay speaker? I seem to only get the option to choose one or the other?
Are you steaming from an iPhone or iPad as you will need to steam from a pc or mac via iTunes to stream to more than one device.
I am a bit late to this discussion, but I ran into the same problem of music playing out of sync when using multiple airplay speakers. I had 2 airport express speakers playing in separate rooms, my computer in a 3rd room, and an Apple TV playing through an older Bose Lifestyle system in a 4th room. No problems - music playing in sync for years. I bought a newer Bose Lifestyle system and connected the exact same Apple TV to my new Bose system in the 4th room and immediately my Bose/Apple TV is playing at a slight delay compared to the 3 other speakers (which are all playing in sync). The only difference between the previous setup and my current setup is that my new Bose system is now connected to my Apple TV via a digital optical cable whereas my previous Bose system was connected to my Apple TV via an AV cable. I agree with Robitunes - it appears that the digital optical cable connecting my Apple TV to my Bose system is causing the music to play slightly (very, very slightly) out of sync. I couldn't for the LIFE of me figure out what caused the difference was, but that seems to be it.
Perfect! I was running Audio to TV then to AMP.... so going straight to amp worked a treat!!! was driving me NUTS!!!
Music on AirPlay
