Use AppleTV as throughput for audio to stereo, sorta bypass TV

I apologize if already answered. I scanned the first 20 or so pages. I then searched and got 34 pages of hits.
What I've been trying to find out is whether this can replace an Airport Express. I've come close to buying one a few times so I can play my music from my main computer. The TV can have it's audio outs go wherever the user wants and so I would have it go to my stereo. I'm wondering if the TV can sorta bypass the television in this situation, that a user can control the audio from iTunes on the computer and not through the television's screen.
Short of that, once the streaming of music begins with the television, couldn't it be turned off? I find it incredibly wasteful to have all that energy flowing through a huge plasma screen just to play some tunes.

I'll probably sell my Airport Express. You can use
the Apple TV with the TV turned off. Just use the
remote to skip, play/pause, and go back. It's still
better than the Airport Express and you can do
everything when you turn the TV back on.
I'd be nice if the Apple TV had a display on the
front for better headless operation as a music player.
My question is this: If I sync protected music files purchased from iTunes to the Apple TV, what type of signal is output from the OPTICAL digital jack, when I playback the songs on the Apple TV?

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From the fcp.co forum. See if this does anything for you.
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I have the solution! Well it at least worked for me. This is the response I got from Apple, Can you please try the following steps towards fixing your audio issue, and report back with your results?
1. Open the application Audio Midi Setup (located in Applications : Utilities)
2. Select the Output Tab for the current output device
3. Select the Configure Speakers option
4. Select the Multichannel tab
5. Change the setting to Stereo Now mine was set to stereo but the left channel wasn't showing left. re-clicking on stereo reloaded the settings and after clicking apply it worked.

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I did a search of course, and came up with something about an aggregate. I have no idea what this is, how to do it, or if it would even work for me.
What I am trying to do is:
1) Record into Logic Express using my Tascam US-122.
2) Have playback come out of my computer sound system, not the Tascam.
If I go over to the Audio setup window, I can only record when the driver is set to Tascam US-122. Likewise, I can only listen to sound when my Built-In Audio is selected. It gets rather annoying going between the two.
So, would this aggregate thing solve my problem? If so, how do I do it? Thanks for any help!
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