Airplay sound quality from iPad

I am trying to use Airplay to stream music to a rather high end HiFi system from my iPad.
Using an new airport express optical out to a high-en DAC.
Sound quality when streaming from iMAC iTunes via airplay to the system just great
Sound quality when streaming same music from iPAD or iPhone via airplay rather poor as their is little dynamic etc. almost as if bit rate is very low or so. Wifi signal is strong no drop outs
Any idea what I do wrong?

I don't think you are doing anything wrong. I experience the same. I expect that it has something to do with the way Airplay works. There is iTunes Airplay and there is System Airplay. You get more or less the same result when you only use Airplay in iTunes on your iMac and keep the system setting on internal speakers (by alt-clicking the speaker icon in the menu-bar).

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