Streaming music wirelessly from iMac to stereo

I'm looking to stream music wirelessly from my iMac to my stereo and was wondering if anyone had any advice on what is the best system to do this through. So far I've seen the Logitech Squeezebox, which looks OK, and the Sonos system, which looks great but pretty expensive.
Thanks

For Express is there any method of controlling the music through the base station...
No
...or is it all done through iTunes on the computer?
Yes

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When I unplug my iPad, and leave my desktop pc on, I open up Music on my iPad, click on the More option and I can see all the music available. When I turn off my pc I can no longer see my music.
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Okay, I have one query and one problem.
Problem: when my laptop is turned on, running iTunes, I can't see any music available on my iPad under the More function. I can only Genres and Composers. How do I access my music collection with the laptop turned on?
Query: Do I have to keep my pc / laptop turned on to play the music wirelessly on my iPad. Seems a bit ridiculous that I've got my NAS running across my wireless network, with iTunes server running, but I have to keep my pc to get to the music.
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If anyone can help i would be hugely grateful, I'm literally pulling my hair out.
I bought the Airport express so i could surf the web and wireless play music through my stereo simultaneously. Can I do this? I've managed to play music wirelessly from my macbook to the express/stereo, however i cant surf the web because i can only presume i haven't set up the express to join my sky network. So therefore the only way to surf the web at the moment is swap wireless devices from express back to my current sky network, then the airplay stops obviously.
I've tried to join the express to my sky network/netgear router, at face value it looks simple. The sky network name automatically comes up and then all i have to do is select the correct wireless security which i haven't got a clue which one my sky/netgear router is using, then type in the password which i presume is the network key number on the back of the netgear router? However its not connecting?? I am doing something wrong?
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and then all i have to do is select the correct wireless security which i haven't got a clue which one my sky/netgear router is using
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Once you have that information, you can choose the correct matching setting when you configure the AirPort Express to "join" the Sky wireless network.
The "password" would be the normal phrase that you use to connect to your wireless network at the present time.

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My library is recognized just fine, I can access all the films - but when I try to play them all I get is the dreaded waiting circle which just circles forever without any movie playing. SD content will play but only after a loooong wait - but forget HD films. They just circle forever - in a few cases they will play for a few seconds and then halt.
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I plugged it in and reset it using the button on the AE.
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I renamed it and created a new wi-fi network
You are telling us here that you created another different wireless network than your existing network, so you have two wireless networks now.
It connected to my existing wireless signal
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After turning selecting a song to play off my iPhone 5S there wasn't any option the select the network I created
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I understand you are unable to print from your 10.8+10.9 systems and would like to help out the best I can.
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