HT201335 my airplay sound quality is terrible

Hello Have a MacBook Air 2012 which I just installed Lion 10.8.2 on. Purchased the Apple TV so that I would be able to mirror my Mac on a Sony Bravia TV. I am using a HDMI cable from the monitor to the Apple TV box. The sound is aweful and the video is slow and breaks up. Is there some sort of setting I should be using in the display settings or is this even possible. Oh and by the way the only reason I bouth the Apple TV was for the mirroring because as many of us have said the mini HDMI port to HDMI on a monitor just out and out does not work period. Have called, emailed apple support third tier no help and been to the genius bar (where they have never heard of the problem) seriously? I brought up the links to the pages and pages on the support community, just so over the dear in headlights stare. Am I on a different planet?

Have you been able to try it with a different set of headphones? This will figure out if its the headphones or the phone first. We can troubleshoot further from there.

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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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Radcolt wrote:
So if I connect my ipad or iPod to an airport express that is being "extended" from the main airport express (the main router which is plug into my audio system), I should still be able to listen to my music, correct?
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