Airport express g and feedback on speakers

Hi forum,
I've just acquired an airport express g which I have I have plugged into a set of audio engine a2s.
The speakers sound great when streaming but when nothing is streaming I'm getting a feedback sound through the speakers like the 3.5mm audio cable has been unplugged.
I tried my N airport express in the same position and did not get any feedback sound when nothing was playing, so I think when the older style expresses have nothing streaming to them the audio side switches itself off which is a right pain as I want to leave my speakers powered on all the time.
Has anyone had a similar problem and overcame it?
The airport express is running 3.3 firmware, I have tried 3.2 and 3.1.1 but that didn't help.
Please someone help!
Cheers Chris

Ok, now confirmed, is not Lion, neither the airports or WiFi, is iTunes 10.4. When using third party software to transmit to the two Airport Extreme, there is no interruption. So Apple must fix the bug in further versions of iTunes. It has happened before, itunes version 10.3 was pretty stable, but now with 10.4 is have the same bug the once had fixed.

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