Airplay Speakers

Hello, hopefully someone on here can advise me re Airplay Speakers.
I have all my music on my iMac in my home office. What I want to do is have a speaker in my lounge at home that works over wi-fi, streaming the music from my iMac and control what is playing from my iPhone using the remote app. Firstly, is this possible in this way as I presume? Secondly, what speakers does anyone recommend? I've had mini iPod dock speakers before that sound rubbish. I want a proper speaker this time.
One other thought, is there such a thing as an AirPlay enabled soundbar, that way I can achive the same as above but also use this to improve the audio from my TV too? Or is this one step too far?
Thanks for your help.

No, you can also get a connector that has a jack input and then two outputs to connect two speakers. And the another one for the third etc. They will all play at same time though.

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