Second Airport Express with speakers?

I have an Airport Express in my living room which acts as my router. I want to place a second Airport Express in the bedroom, plug my Genius SP-HF1800A powered speakers into it, and play Internet radio on those speakers from my iPhone or iPad with AirPlay.
I thought this was easily doable, but when I went to buy the Airport Express one of the guys at the Genius Bar at my local Apple Store informed me that this was in fact impossible and that if I wanted to listen to music through speakers on Airplay my only choices were to either physically connect the speakers via cord directly to a docked iPhone or buy wireless speakers.
Is this true? Or can I use the second Express in the way I first thought was possible?
thanks!

Assuming you are using iTunes, a second Airport Express will work well for you.
Airport Express (AE) can act as a base station for up to 10 clients (computers) and a if you attach a second AE this one is similar to a computer.
If the signal strengh in your bedroom is ok (depends on distance, walls and so on) you will have a nice sound there.
To setup best the AE is attached via LAN Cable to your computer and other networks on your computer are switched OFF.
In the setup of the AE go to:
Airport --> wireless --> join a wireless network --> choose from the dropdown or set manually the name of the network (router / the other AE) and passphrase for the appropriate security setting.
Music--> enable Airplay and set a speaker name
Internet --> TCP/IP --> DHCP
Then click on update.
After that, unplug the LAN-Cable and activate your computers network. The AE should then show up in the Airport-Utility.
If the AE is there, unplug, drag it to your bedroom an plug in again. Wait for the green light, plug in speakers and enjoy.
Useful hint to AE's in bedrooms: The green light of the AE is brilliant in the dark :-))
To avoid disturbance while you sleep, attache a small piece of a thin red colored selfaddesive paper or tape over it. Red filters green and so the indicator light will be visible without ilumine the whole room.
Have a lot of fun with your bedroom music
Lupunus

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