Audio cut-out to B&W Airplay Speaker

Question

I experience annoying audio dropouts from B&W A7 Airplay speakers.  A7 is located downstairs and wireless router (Westell 327W) is upstairs (office), although not that far away.  I am streaming from new iPod touch, not PC.  I suspect the problem is signal quality/strength from the router.  Is there a way to improve this?  New router? Signal booster?  Other trick wireless setup?  Hard wiring is not possible.
Other info: Music dropped this morning, even with the PC off (but router on).  I noticed the wireless signal indicator on my iPod occasionally drops from 3 bars to 2 while downstairs listening.  When I walked down to the basement with the iPod, the indicator dropped to 1 bar and music stopped.  While standing next to the router upstairs, there was no drop in audio downstairs even when I turned on PC, opened Outlook to download mail, then downloaded Flash Player update.  Thus, it seems that I am not streaming directly from the iPod to the A7, but rather the streaming is going from the iPod up to the router then from the router to the A7.  Is that correct? 
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
One more piece of information in case it matters.  I also have an Airport Express upstairs, in my den (which is room next to office where router is located).  The AE is tied into my Yamaha soundbar so that I can stream music to the soundbar if I want to listen in my den.  Since the AE is part of my wifi network, I didn't know if somehow the AE affected whatever routing is going on in my system.  (I was surprised to find that if I turned off my router, the wireless streaming to my soundbar via AE also stopped.  Perhaps I should un-join the AE from my wifi network.  While this would prevent me from streaming from my PC, I believe I could still stream directly from my iPod to the AE since it worked before I figured out how to get it to join my network.)
One additional pc of info:  While streaming from iPod to A7 (standing upstairs), I unplugged the AE and this had no effect on streaming.  So I gather the presence of the AE is not the source of the dropouts or has an adverse effect on wifi signal.  I also streamed different music from my PC to the Soundbar via AE while the iPod (while standing upstairs) streamed to the A7 downstairs.  No dropout in spite of dual simultaneous streaming which one would think would overtax the router if that were the problem.
Finally, this problem is intermittent with some occasions better or worse than others. I have sat in my kitchen and listened to music on the A7 for 45 mins without interruption.  Then, it cut-out intermittently a few times, then played continuously thereafter.

Answer 1

Hi -
Check that you are not attempting to capture through areas where nothing is recorded on the tape - i.e., such as when the camera operator stops the recording, winds the tape back for a playback check and then leaves a gap of a couple of seconds of blank tape before the next recording begins.
If you attempt to capture through one of these areas, the clip invariably goes out of sync.
It is tedious, but you may need to capture in smaller chunks.
To test this, capture a small portion of the tape that is currently playing out of sync in FCE and see if your short test capture is OK.
Hope this helps.
MtD