Using airport to play on my hifi system

I purchased an Airport Express from the Apple Store a couple of years ago and haven't yet used it. As my iTunes library is getting massive along with my CD collection, I have in mind to consider streaming my iTunes library to my Quad stereo Hi-Fi system which is 25 years old with the inputs being via phono - RCA sockets. Is this possible with this set-up?

Ok Barry,
I guess you discovered that all you needed was an RCA to 1/6" stereo adapter.

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I have a mini stereo jack connected from the auxiliary output of my stereo system which I plug into the iPod to play through the amp and big speakers. This worked fine when I was synced via my PC but now that I have changed it to Mac the sound is massively distorted. What gives?
Terry

OK, sorted it myself. I remembered that to play it previously I had to use the phono out jacks, which I thought odd at the time. Changed the leads over to the DAT out and it works fine. I don't know if this represents a difference between the two systems, or whether it's just one of those little mysteries peculiar to my case.

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I am playing my itunes through airport express to my stereo. Anyone have any ideas as to why it is only playing through one speaker on my stereo?
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Leads into the stereo from the Airport express not in securely.

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I am talking about the "High Resolution Technologies iStreamer" which is, so I have read, approved by Apple.
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Not sure about the "approved by Apple", usually all you get is the "Works with iPhone", or iPod compatibility sticker.
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How to play the music in a HIFI system using bluetooth or WIFI

How to throw music from Sony Xperia Tablet S to another device, I have tried without success to throwthe music to Windows Media Player 11 (in a Windows Vista and in a Windows 7 computer), using DLNA/DRM, and also to Bluetooth. What I want is to listen the music in a HIFI system, without the need to be connected by a cable. Both DLNA/DRM and Bluetooth tecnologies should support this.
I have configured DLNA and I can play in the tablet music that is in the both windows computers, but the next step I am trying is to be free to play the music from the servers in the Xperia tablet using any HIFI system at home.

I have found the solution: check "Allow remote control of my player" option is checked in the Streaming menu (Alt + r) of WMP..
Here is the full explanation, I am able now to throw the music from the tablet to the laptop and I will connect the laptop to the HIFI system.
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The "Play to" menu above the Playlist in Windows Media Player is also available as an option in the Applications (right click) context menu in Windows Explorer. This is probably one of my most used and favorite Windows 7 features! It displays a submenu of all of the current active DLNA Renderer devices at that moment. If there are none available at this time, the "Play to" feature is not in the context menu.

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Hi there. I know if you connect a hifi system to an airport express station you can use airplay to listen to music wirelessly. My question is, can you use those speakers wirelessly to also play sound in general, like movies, youtube etc. If that's possible how do you set it up? Thanks in advance!

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How do I play iTunes through my HiFi system ?

I'm new to Apple support communities having just bought my first Macbook Pro (a 17" 2.5GHz i7 model) and this is my very first iTunes post.
I’m a bit of a Hi-Fi enthusiast, so, with my new MacBook Pro I've taken the opportunity of completely reloading my iTunes library to disk in high quality Apple Lossless format. Took a while but now I've completed the task I’m really pleased I've done it.
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I'm guessing one option must be to use the MBP headphone output, either as an analogue or digital source, but I suspect its analogue headphone output will be totally incompatible with the RIAA requirement of the pre amp phono input ?
I’ve also read some comments about using digital connection – USB DAC’s appear to be an option but I don’t know anything about these or which models (available in the UK) are recommended – anyone got any experience ?
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Apple TV is the right solution for this.   I'm also a hifi fan who now has a giant itunes library in the cloud... and I wanted to play it through my hifi.
Get Apple TV for $99, and make sure you have an optical cable (avail at Walmart for maybe $10 I bet). You also need to buy an HDMI cable but it is beside the point for the hifi purpose.
Now my setup is Apple TV with optical out to my very decent (not ultra high end) AV receiver Denon 2802 - which gives me DA conversion AND bass managment.   This goes out to my high end integrated amp using RCA cables from the receiver to the integrated amp.    Now just calibrate the subwoofer using the AV receiver's bass management and I am VERY much in business. It sounds GREAT.
The receiver acts like a preamp (I keep my integrated with the dial at 12:00 most of the time... sort of like a stand alone power amp with a little gain left over... for TV this powers my fronts and the receiver powers the rest - works very fine).
Now if I want to be a little more purist about the whole thing, I might buy a separate outboard DAC to go between apple TV and my Integrated amp - cutting out the receiver.   I would cut down the signal path a bit.   But I would lose some bass management - I'd have to work harder to integrate my subwoofer using the subwoofer's dials which is tough...or else abandon the sub and play my speakers on large (which in my experience is never best... psychologically it seems best but it does not sound better if you are pretty good at dialing in your sub).
Anyway I probably lost you by talking on too long ... but in short - the Apple TV is perfect for this purpose - at least in my setup.   One of the best $99 I have ever spent.   My CD's are all ripped to itunes and are now nothing more than coasters. I sit in my chair - toggle to the assigned input on my receiver with the remote, use the receiver's remote for volume control, my macbook pro/iphone/ipad) to choose playlists, and enjoy pretty good hifi with my expensive integrated amp, sub and speakers.
Most of the time, my Apple TV has nothing to do with my TV... ironically. If I knew ATV would work this well for me I'd have been wiling to pay $250 for it.
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Anything I can do to eliminate distortion when I play songs from my computer via Airport Express on my Ipod HiFi? I've tried adjusting the volume, but songs still sound distorted; they get worse if I crank up the volume.
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first, make sure you play the same music file on your computer without any distortion, if yes check the EQ setting on your iTunes. Then recheck the following:-
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http://www.alloysoft.com/
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I have just bought an airport and want to play a movie (a .avi file) on my MacBook and have the sound coming out of my stereo (using the AirPort). Is this possible? I have tried to play the movie in iTunes but that doesn't seem to work. I have also tried to use Quicktime player, but without any luck as well.
I hope you can help me.
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After looking around for a solution, I found a piece of software called AirFoil which you can get at http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/. The problem here is, that when you play a movie there is a time delay of 2-5 seconds.
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