Airplay stuttering on itunes

hi,
recently i bought an airplay speaker.
when i play a song with airplay on the speaker via my iphone 5 it works perfectly however when i play a song on itunes on my windows 7pc it keeps stuttering. I tried streaming music with airfoil but this also stutters.
Both my iphone and the pc are connected to my wifi network on 802.11n 300 Mbit/s wireless router.
i have itunes 11.0.2.26
pc specs: intel core 2 Duo CPU T6400 @2.00GHz
4gb ram
64 -bit windoes 7
Wifi card: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-card
what could be the problem?

I'have the same problem as well,
Iphone --> airplay device is good
Tabled --> airplay device is good
Windows764bit, latest itunes --> local notebook audio also good
Windows764bit, latest itunes --> airplay device is stuttering (tried both wifi and cable, for notebook and airplay device)

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In order to troubleshoot performace issues with AirPlay between your devices, please follow the steps below.
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