Airplay - use built-in audio output while mirroring

Yesterday I tried to configure my headless mac mini to use airplay mirroring to my ATV3. This in general works beautifully.
The thing is, I use this machine as hifi-transport and want to continue using the local audio output (S/PDIF / Toslink / USB DAC) during mirroring.
I could not find any way of doing this. in Audio MIDI mixer, the sound output switches to Airplay as soon as I enable mirroring. If I then use the Audio MIDI utility to switch back oudio output to the built-in output, it automatically deactivates the mirroring session.
Even creating an aggregate and/or multiple output audio device in Audio MIDI utility and put together Airplay output and the built-in output, it does not work...
Anybody have any idea how to solve this?

I like to chime in on this one too as I was just about to create a thread of my own.
My current home situation:
living room: airport express connected to receiver
work room: macbook pro with mountain lion in combination with Spotify
I would like to have the sound of spotify be sent simultaneously to the optical out of my macbook and the airport express in the living. So I created an aggregated device using this support file: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3956# - i ticked the box on both AirPlay and Built-in Output but there is no sound getting transfered to the Airport Express.
If I only tick the Airplay checkbox it works perfectly in the living room and if I only tick the Built-in it works perfectly on the macbook. But not both checkboxes combined.
Screenshots for clarification to be found here: http://imgur.com/a/K0KND#0
screenshot 1) works as intended: sound on airport express via AirPlay
screenshot 2) does not work as intended: only sound on macbook pro
screenshot 3) works as intended: sound on macbook pro via Built-in output
So any clue why the setup from screenshot 2 does not work?

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