My impression is that I need both an Airport Express for sound, and an AirPort Extreme for sharing the hard drive.
Is this true, or there are alternatives?
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Sign up to join this communityYour impression is correct. AirPort Express's USB port does not support hard drives, and AirPort Extreme doesn't have an audio output jack:
Sucks, don't it?