Airtunes distortion with wireless clients

I have a wireless network that consists of an Apple Snow Airport Extreme and Apple TV. My MacPro is connected via Ethernet to the Airport Extreme. I regularly play music from my MacPro through my Apple TV with no issues.
But... anyone that comes by with their laptop and connects wirelessly to play music though my Apple TV has a serious problem. The audio is distorted and sounds awful, like it has too much gain and distorts with the last 8-12db of headroom.
Has anyone experienced this? I used to use an Airport Express to play music though my stereo and had the exact same issue. Without doing a lot of experimenting, this issue seems to be related to wireless clients using Airtunes but may be more pervasive.
Any other insight or experiments would be helpful.

Just purchased a new Airport Extreme (gigabit) and still have the problem with:
*) Wireless client
*) Wireless music playback (AppleTV, Airport Express)
using Airtunes in iTunes.
This makes no sense that I am the only person having this issue. I have tried a different base station, different playback device, and different wireless client. This is a brand new configuration.
Things still work fine with my MacPro connected via ethernet to the Airport, streaming wirelessly to the AppleTV.
Anybody?

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