Digital or analogue cable from Airport Express?

Getting my hi-fi tomorrow and trying to find a toslink cable with 3.5 mm /minijack in both ends to connect with my Airport Express. They are quite hard to find and I wonder if the sound quality really gets THAT much better with the digital cable?

Thanks for the input, but I'm not clear on this toslink adapter and I hope you can clarify.
I assume the adapter is connected to the line out of a dock station, since an iPod only has headphone out. Does that mean that the dock station line out is outputing digital or analogue? If it is outputing analogue, the signal has gone through the iPod DAC which has already converted the digital to analogue. (Which I guess that's a dumb observation since it must be outputing digital unless the adapter has an ADC).
If the dock station input is better then the headphone then I assume the dock station is streaming a digital output which is being converted to analogue by the HiFi's DAC.
So the conclusion must be that the line out and the dock station outputs are both streaming digital, bypassing the iPod DAC, but, for some reason the line out is not getting as much distortion in it's route to the output as the dock station output is.
Thanks for any help
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