Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 (Audio Adapter Receiver for Wireless Streaming with Optical and Speaker Inputs for iPhone, iPad, and other AirPlay enabled devices), Black, 3.5mm

I purchased it new for £29.99. I would say it was a great buy! (After my purchased I found that there is another online store selling it for £24.99. Without much thinking I purchased my second one. Now the price drops further to £19.99. It’s absolutely a steal!Soundwise, the 3.5mm analogue output is not impressive. It sounds quite harsh to my ears. I use its digital optical output to connect to my DAC instead. I must say it’s fabulous! It turns my hifi system to an Airplay system. I can now stream the local music files in my iPad Pro, internet radios, spotify and much more to my hifi system. It’s so convenient and has completely changed my habit of music listening!I used to have a Cambridge Audio CXN V2 streamer. Unfortunately I had to need returned it for full refund in the first week. CXN’s wifi reception is so poor that the connection was often lost when listening to internet radios. With this Belkin I never have this problem again. The connection is stable and the setup is easy. Well-done Belkin!

I bought this to play from my iPhone to a hi-fi amplifier using the optical connection. I've never used AirPlay before but the setup worked first time just following the instuctions. The NFC reception area is on the back of the device. I held the top of my iPhone (iOS 16.2) to it as you would for Apple Pay. After a few seconds the Soundform Connect was recognised and automatically configured to use the home wifi network. Great. Then I installed the Belkin Soundform app which immediately upgraded the firmware. So far so good.Now the bad news. I can't find a setting to bypass the iPhone's volume control. Maybe volume control is a mandatory part of the AirPlay standard, but to get "CD quality" you definitely want to control the volume on the connected amplifier and not from the input source. Otherwise you are just amplifying a degraded signal. There might be some point if you are using the analogue output, but it's daft to attenuate a digital optical signal before it even reaches the amplifier. I would rather be sure the input is bit-perfect.I think this might explain the volume and sound quality issues others have reported. The solution is simple, just turn the iPhone volume up to 100%. It's a minor nuisance, hence a star deducted for ease of use. As the Soundform Connect seems to work well otherwise, and I got it at a great price, I'm keeping it.

I have a 1995 Sony Hi-Fi which doesn't even support aux but with some RCA adapters, you can convert it. So now I have these speakers which now can play from 3.5mm devices. So initially I plugged them into an echo dot 4th gen speaker but noticed there was a lot of static noise on lower volumes. Most people probably wouldn't notice but it drove me crazy.So after reading some reviews, decided to pick this Belkin AirPlay 2 converter up. The setup was simple if you have an iPhone (or any Apple device as it only supports AirPlay). It integrates right into the Home app on your iPhone.The sound quality is so much better than other 3.5 mm devices I have tried. There is very little floor noise and the output volume is very loud.There is no noticeable delay when watching videos and music and the inclusion of a USB C cable and wall plug is a nice bonus.The only issue I have faced is sometimes, it takes a while for my iPhone or iPad to show the adapter when playing music, sometimes taking up to 30 seconds or even needing to unplug and replug. But this happens very rarely so I wouldn't worry about it at all.But overall, 10/10 device for the best AirPlay 2 audio streamer for the price. Brings life back into your old speakers and prevents e-waste.

This device is quite expensive but BELKIN Is a good name. I wanted to use it to play music from my iPad to an older amplifier vis airplay 2. Unfortunately I couldn’t set it up. The iPad doesn’t have NFC so it wouldn’t install automatically. Using the iPad setup the system wanted to install it as a Home accessory but this required a “set-up” code which either Belkin didn’t provide or it was so small on the device I couldn’t read it even with a magnifying glass. So it’s going back to Amazon. Might be me, I’m 74 but can’t recommend.

I had 3 smart speakers in 3 different rooms, I had problems with two of them. One of them the wifi functionality had completely failed. They other was unreliable. I set up all three speakers with AirPlay 2 using this product. Also set up a forth speaker, dumb speaker using this product. Now all 4 play together using AirPlay 2 flawlessly so far! excellent product! Saved me a fortune because I had started looking at buying new speakers.

Was about to throw away a Yamaha RX-V373 AV Receiver and 5.1 Speaker set I around. Used this thing to setup a surround sound system with Airplay 2. So pleased the setup was easy using the Apple Home app. Used the optical cable to connect to the AV and now I have a rom filling 5.1 Surround sound system with Airplay.The pack came with a USB C charger - no optical cable or audio jack. It's a bit pricer compared to the other 3rd party cheaper ones. Went ahead as mainly its was Belkin and I know they are approved Apple accessory makers.Just first day and see how things go over the next days. Will update the review if it's not good.

I’ve not installed it yet, my son uses them and I was very impressed. Waiting for my son to do some work on my Amplifier.