Why Sony Walkman is different from other portable music players and it's advantages and disadvantages: How Sony does the digital to analog conversion is different from other daps that rely on semiconductor dac chips from Analog Devices, Asahi Kasei Microdevices, ESS, Texas Instruments or Cirrus Logic to do the "dirty work". More @Wikipedia
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