I have this device installed in my car. It is attached to a toslink cable which runs to an optical / coaxial converter which then feeds into the S/PDIF input on my car head unit. I play from my iPod Touch using Airplay to the Airport Express. This means I get digital sound from the iPod Touch right into my car head unit. That is probably a very unusual usage because few people will have a car head unit that takes a S/PDIF signal. However, many people have a hifi receiver in the house which has S/PDIF input and indeed often it will be optical so that would allow cutting out the optical coaxial converter. This means with one very cheap device you can stream your music from your computer or iPhone or iPod Touch to your hifi receiver. It is better than using Airplay enabled speakers because you get to choose whatever speakers go with your hifi system. I have read in some forums that music streamed via LAN can suffer from jitter, which is probably not audible but affects the sound quality. Admittedly I have only tested this in my car but I did not find this a problem. As to set up, I did this with my iPod Touch, in the car. I thought this would be hard but it is not. I was able to set the Airport Express up as the centre of its own little private WIFI LAN, with no internet access, just to provide the means to get the music off my iPod. I have recently had the opportunity to use the bluetooth music playing capability and the USB capability in a new Hyundai i30 and it is much worse audio quality. That may be because it has speakers etc that are not as high quality as in my Renault Laguna. However, the bluetooth actually popped and clicked, which the WIFI set up never has. At less than $70 this is such a useful device with as far as I can tell has an absolutely unique combination of WIFI and optical S/PDIF.Read full review
This is a great little device and I'm so glad I bought it. A breeze to set up, and the AirPlay feature alone - enabling any of our household's computers, phones and tablets to play music through the hifi wirelessly - makes it worthwhile. It's other features - extending the wifi network and allowing us to add usb and ethernet printers to it - are also great. I really can't fault it. The only thing that might trip you up is, if you bought it second-hand, it's probably set up for the previous owner's network and might be (as mine was) configured to be invisible on the network. This confused me at first, but I just googled how to reset it to factory defaults and then it was easy.
Great product works well with iPhones and iPads and air printers your own personal wifi Don't forget the password setup or other people will log in to your Internet account
Perfect to deal with
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Works great. Great product in very good condition. It allows me to connect my computer and iphone wirelessly to my ipod dock/speaker to listen to music, and I can also print from any computer in the house. Love it.
The Apple Airport Express is a great way to enjoy your music any where in the house, as long as you have a apple product, ipod,iphone etc you good to. Simple setup, can simply at it to your network at home and stream straight from your computer. Rating ***** works perfect every time
Great product if you have a mac laptop or apple tv. There tends to be a very slight delay between the music source and the airport xpress which is quite noticeable when listening to house music or percussive music etc.
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