Only one speaker working with Airport Express

I'm having the same problem. It does seem to be a faulty jack on the Airport. I think this, because everybody on here, myself included, has said they are positive its not the cables, and the only people who get it fixed are those who switch to optical cables. This is because the Airport Express is putting out both signals, and instead of depending on the poorly fitting analog jack, it is using the red light optical signal.

Until I get an optical cable, I'll just have to keep jiggling my cable to get it to work again. This is a pretty poorly handled issue by apple, which is sad.

Ugh, another big fat me too. Add on a bunch of issues with dropped connections when initially setting up the AE (after 40 min on the phone with Apple and 4 hard reboots it finally works) and it's been very frustrating.

Had heard it was coming out of only one speaker but was sure it was my cable as I had just swapped inputs and broke my cable in the process. Hung up with apple, swapped the cable and now only get audio out of the left channel.

It's hard to believe there have been this many posts without a response from Apple. Do they even read these forums? Apple, maybe put in a notification system in your message board that will alert you when there's an open topic like this that has so many of the same message?

This is the third very frustrating experience I've had with Apple hardware in the last few years after 8 or so without a single problem.

evanmcd - these discussion forums are very much "user to user" discussion forums. It is extremely rare for Apple's own tech support people to post here. Commonly discussed issues (that have a solution) do eventually get written up as articles in the support knowledgebase. If you need a response directly from an Apple support tech, you will need to phone in.

Same here guys...

Just bought a brand new Airport Express N router, & only one speaker is working. I called AppleCare & they don't know what to do about it. Am thinking about contacting Macworld's Mac 911 dept & seeing if they have an answer. I'm about to send feedback to Apple (apple.com/feedback) & tell them about this issue. And I hope & pray they read it! With all of us having the issue something is definitely wrong on Apple's end somewhere.

Hoping & praying for the best,
Nathan Parker

President/CEO
Mallard Computer, Inc.

I just had this problem as well. After rewiring the speakers and connecting my laptop to the audio cable going into the amp, I've concluded that the problem was the Airport Express's jack.

I plugged earphones into the jack and had the same problem—sound only from one speaker. I then fiddled with the jack connection a bit an, voila, sound from both speakers.

I reconnected my amp, fiddled with the jack until I was getting sound from both speakers.

Not the ideal solution, but it works for now...

My guess is it will be your cabling.
Try unplugging from Airport, turning your amp up full and touching the end of your jack.
Does 'static'/buzz come out of both speakers?

You could try finding a stereo to mono minijack adapter. If it does work, you won't get "stereo" sound from the speakers, but it should put sound out on both right and left channels.

I had this issue too. My fix was quick and easy. I plugged the Express into a different AC outlet. Suddenly I had 2 speakers. I don't know what the difference was but that worked for me.

did you ever resolve this issue as i also seem to have the same problem/issue with my airport express

20" imac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Yep, having the same problem over here.
What up, Apple?

I have the same problem. It seems to work for a while and then loses it's mind, or at least one speaker. Apple, how about a little help.

I seem to have airport express set up and wire connected to my stereo.
I don't see it in itunes so I can get music to play through my stereo.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

William, I truly think that the problem is with the connection jack or cable that fits into the airport express. Try a different jack and cable. This did work for me.

K

I'm having this exact same issue. Sound only out of the left speaker, cable fine, haven't tried optical.

P.S. - I hope Apple doesn't intentionally break my airport because I use winamp instead of Itunes (kinda like they broke unbricked Iphones).