It uses a technology called PurePath Digital to amplify the ones and zeros of an audio stream without having to convert it to analog (a process that can introduce noise).

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With its early audio players, the company actually expected customers to dutifully convert (using software that is generously remembered as buggy) all of their song files into a proprietary format that the players could play.

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