Multiple speakers without multiple expresses

Is there a way to have a mac-mini control many speakers with iTunes without the hardware burden and radiation burden of many airport expresses?
I wired up my house with lots of speakers all over the place, and the wires all go to one location. Ideally, I could buy a 12-channel amp, and have a mac mini run all 6 locations, with various iphone and ipod-touches able to control music selection and which zones are on or off.
Is that possible without buying 6 airport expresses? (and they would all be on the same power-brick... kind of a waste of plastic and radiation)
Thanks!

Not if you want each zone/speaker set to run separately - different music to each zone - no. A Mac mini has only a single stereo out, as does an Airport express, so neither could supply different audio programs to different amplifiers. I don't believe that you could do that even with multiple Airport Express units; I don't think iTunes can stream different streams to different Airports, though I could easily be wrong. If you want multiple zones with each one controllable separately, you'll probably need a much more sophisticated software/hardware setup like the Sonos systems, none of which are probably going to be cheap.

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