ITunes to home stereo?

Are there any products on the market that will send my music (at least) to my home stereo? I've got AirTunes but would like to be able to access the music without going back to my desktop in my home office. I've looked into the EyeHome system but not being able to play my purchased music is a serious drawback.
If there's not anything around now, is Apple working on products that will help? I would think that with the video features that it would be natural progression.

chitapita,
Seems to me your ready for a 5.1 surround sound system.
Your Quad has a digital optical toslink connection that can go to a reciever capable of accepting toslink, the sound options with a quality 5.1 receiver and speakers is incredible. You won't settle for that stereo or iPod output at home anymore.
My advice is to get yourself a large internal drive in addition to your boot drive in the quad, this is where you'll store all your music with backups to the external drive and the iPod for portability of your most used music and on the laptop if you need more control, like your DJ-ing or something. However you should keep all your tweaking on the Quad with clone backups.
Now as far as selection of a 5.1 reciever is up to your budget of course, but do select a reciever capable of decoding Dolby, Logic and DTS 5.1 formats, the more the better actually, the Mac just passes the signal through without decoding. Each of these formats should also have selections to make Wide, Theater and other effects, this way you can play DVD movies with 5.1 and most music will seperate correctly for the surround sound speaker systems (4 corner speakers, a center and a subwoofer)
A surround sound system will fill a whole room with music, the subwoofer will give incredible bass to the music. It's really wonderful, stereo speakers are really lame in comparison.
I have a harmon/kardon dpr 2005 with their matching hkts-14 120 watt speakers and 200 watt subwoofer, it's very loud and powerful, the toslink gives distortion free sound.
What's most likely happening is your recording records and the audio recording quality is so high as compared to the rather low quality of records that your files are too big.
Since you can reduce the file size without affecting the quality, you should consider re-encoding the files into a lower bit-rate format to save space.
I have over 7000 songs and they fit perfectly on my mere 148GB boot drive , in fact I'm under 50% filled on my boot drive. Since Quads are shipping with 250GB drives minimum, either you must have a huge collection or your recording files are oversized. Try re-encoding them into AAC or 128kb Mp3's.
take a look at my system here
http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/PhotoAlbum2.html

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