Multiple stereos off of Airport Express

I was wondering if there is a way to connect my airport express up to a optical cable on my stereo and to the headphone jack from my harmon kardon soundsticks. This way it could run more speakers at once, is there a special cable that can split from the airport express into optical / spdif and rca / auxiliary. Thanks

I don't think such a cable exists. Why not run the optical cable from the Airport Express to your stereo, then run a standard analog audio cable from the "line out" output on your stereo to the Harmon Kardon Soundsticks.

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