Beonic wrote:

The volume is either extremely low or extremely high. The volume is normal when I plug the mini jack directly into my iphone or Mac, but when using the Airport express to stream music I get this problem.

I think this is because it is designed to be a line-out port instead of a regular headphones-port. 

You can regulate the volume via your iPhone or iTunes/AirFoil, whichever you use but perhaps not with the same precision as with your headphones. 

I have always run my AirPort Express with an optical cable connected to a receiver. Even if it is a bit more to power on when you get home it actually works very well. 

Does it sound all right though? 

I had a Belkin Bluetooth Music Transmitter plugged onto my Beolab 6000 but the sound quality dropped too much so keep using my iphone through cable.

Hi Gillie,

Yes the sound is impeccable, both using iPhone and Mac as streaming sources. No loss of quality, at least as far as my ears can sense.

Breakthrough!

Ok, so I really sat down with this today and tried a bunch of things, including restoring the Airport Express to factory settings, which was a waste of time. What I found was that using the Airfoil app that Michael mentioned I was able to bring the sound output from my mac down to a low enough level that I was able to use my Beolabs without making my neighbor come over to tear my head off.

The airfoil has a settings menu (not the volume bar on the interface) that allows you to set the app volume down from a 100% all the way down to zero. I put this Airfoil app volume to a 20%, and then the Spotify (or iTunes) volume level at aprox 20-30% of full. The Beolabs can finally be used by streaming through my Airport Express.

Unfortunately this solution only applies when you stream from Mac, and not iPhone so the ease of not having to switch on any receivers is still spoiled by the fact that you have to start your mac, launch Spotify (or iTunes) and launch airfoil. 

Even though this is a solution for Mac streaming (which again can be controlled by your iPhone) it is still not what I am looking for. I am starting to believe that the only possible solution is an adapter that do not have to be switched on or off. 

Still searching for further solutions if anyone has any ideas..

Cant you just set volume on Iphone? Using Belkin transmitter I was able to change volume easily.

I dont know if you spend a bit more money , but this one works all right for me.

Gillie,

The problem is not that I cannot change the volume on my iphone, the problem is that on the absolute lowest volume level (before mute) the sound is still incredibly high when streamed to my beolabs through the Airport Express.

The hardware in the link you suggested is just an expensive way of plugging the mini jack directly into your iPhone, as I stated in my first post: plugging the mini jack directly into the iPhone works just fine, no volume problems.

The whole idea of my posting was to get ideas and inputs on how to make the iPhone (or Mac, but that's solved) to stream music wireless to your B&O speakers by using the Apple Airport Express, and without encountering the before mentioned volume problems.

Gillie

Beonic wrote:

Gillie,

The problem is not that I cannot change the volume on my iphone, the problem is that on the absolute lowest volume level (before mute) the sound is still incredibly high when streamed to my beolabs through the Airport Express.

The hardware in the link you suggested is just an expensive way of plugging the mini jack directly into your iPhone, as I stated in my first post: plugging the mini jack directly into the iPhone works just fine, no volume problems.

The whole idea of my posting was to get ideas and inputs on how to make the iPhone (or Mac, but that's solved) to stream music wireless to your B&O speakers by using the Apple Airport Express, and without encountering the before mentioned volume problems.

That sounds like a very good solution Michael. Any idea of what kind of adapter I should ask about and who/ where I should ask? Any place online?