Is music streamed from an iMac to an Airport Express digital?

My Airport is connected to my stereo with the optical/digital connector, but is the music that is being streamed to the Express itself digital before it is streamed to the stereo via the Express?

Because you can stream music from the Express to the stereo digitally or analog dependent on which connectors you use. Since the music has to travel to the Express and then to the stereo, I just wondered if the stream from the computer was digital.

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