Outdoor Speakers and Airport Express

Hi everyone,
I'm looking at rock speakers to put in my backyard and connect to airport express, these ones especially:
http://www.outdoorspeakerdepot.com/hf5.html
Can anyone give me a rundown on how to use these speakers with airport express and what kind of things I'll need besides them to get them to work with Airport Express?
Any instructions would be greatly appreciated, I've looked all around and can't find any help so far.

This may be possible. The AirPort Express is an AirPlay capable device. If your current wireless speakers are also AirPlay capable, then you should be able to stream to both these wireless speakers and to speakers connected to the Express via an analog/digital audio cable simultaneously or separately.

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