I would try first with Airfoil, before Playmaker. It helped me with similar problems about loosing  sync, but not same as yours. 

Hi Milos,

Thanks for your suggestion, I tried with Airfoil too, same problem no matter if I stream to one any of the Apple TVs or to the Beolit 12...

/Peter

Peter wrote:

Any ideas what to do?  Would a Playmaker do a better job than the Apple TV when it comes to streaming music ?

Sadly I can't comment on the synchronisation issue (I've never experienced that with my Apple TV/Airport Express devices).

However, I can assure you that the Playmaker would NOT do a better job. Although the sound quality via my Playmaker is far superior to the Airport Express, like other people have said, it drops the connection a lot. A lot. It's frustrating.

Just as a comparison, I had an Airport Express in this room for about six years and it rarely lost the connection. Since installing the Playmaker, in April, it loses the connection most days, often for up to 20 seconds. Nothing has changed apart from me swapping the Airport Express for the Playmaker in exactly the same position.

Thanks for you input, Moxxey!

You are probably right that a Playmaker will not solve this specific sync issue. It might as well be a router problem. Will put some more effort in testing various possibilities..

As you mention dropouts, it might be a router problem too. I used to have a Netgear router and at that time I had only one Apple TV (ver.1) and two Airport expresses. I also had dropouts all the time, then I switched the Netgear to a Airport Extreme (both n-standard) and the dropout problem disappeared.
The specs were similar on the two routers, but the Apple Extreme was dual band and even if I had all wireless equipment on the 2.4 Ghz band, I hardly ever have dropouts anymore.

Peter wrote:

As you mention dropouts, it might be a router problem too.

I don't get any dropouts on the Airport Express or Apple TV devices. Only the Playmaker. It's very poor at keeping a consistent connection. It's not a router issue. The Playmaker is about 3 metres from the router. It couldn't be any closer. I have an Airport Express in the other side of the house, five brick walls away, which keeps a better and more consistent connection (ironically, controlling the audio on the BeoSound 8 in the kitchen).

Compared to the Airport Express, the Playmaker is a superior device in terms of audio quality, but not for keeping a consistent connection.

And I have an Apple Extreme powering the wifi network.

moxxey wrote:

Peter wrote:

As you mention dropouts, it might be a router problem too.

I don't get any dropouts on the Airport Express or Apple TV devices. Only the Playmaker. It's very poor at keeping a consistent connection. It's not a router issue. The Playmaker is about 3 metres from the router. It couldn't be any closer. I have an Airport Express in the other side of the house, five brick walls away, which keeps a better and more consistent connection (ironically, controlling the audio on the BeoSound 8 in the kitchen).

Compared to the Airport Express, the Playmaker is a superior device in terms of audio quality, but not for keeping a consistent connection.

And I have an Apple Extreme powering the wifi network.

Moxxey, are you running the newest software on your Playmaker? We have about 7 of them around our shop and they are always connected. I thought it was one of their best qualities besides the audio. We are using only MKI versions at the moment. 

ahh..ok..well then I suppose its the Playmaker itself then...

I have the opposite problem with my Beolit 12. Once it gets online, it's very stable, but takes forever to connect.

I guess there is more to work on in the area of wireless HiFi...

BeoMegaMan wrote:

Moxxey, are you running the newest software on your Playmaker? We have about 7 of them around our shop and they are always connected. I thought it was one of their best qualities besides the audio. We are using only MKI versions at the moment.

Ah, you know... A little B&O here, a little there

Peter wrote:

I guess there is more to work on in the area of wireless HiFi...

That is an understatement. The low level of the technology is quite complicated, and there are many interoperability issues between different chipsets from different manufacturers.

It's not too surprising that Apple devices work with Apple devices. Others are mostly doomed to hit an untested combination sooner or later.

Often these incompatibilities can be circumvented by trying different parameters, but it is a lot of trial and error, and many devices don't let you tweak that much aside from the basic settings.