Limited Warranty (ES Products)
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...locate the servicer or dealer nearest you must pay for a period of sale or receipted invoice which vary from your convenience, Sony Electronics Inc. To obtain warranty service, you , or for service assistance or resolution of protection, to service the Product. This...product information or operation, call : 1-800-488-SONY (7669) Printed in Japan 4-243-341-02 General Stereo/Hifi Components/Tape Decks ® CD Players/Mini Disc Players/Audio Systems LIMITED WARRANTY Hifi Audio ES Products Sony Electronics Inc. ("Sony") warrants this Product is invalid if the factory ...
...locate the servicer or dealer nearest you must pay for a period of sale or receipted invoice which vary from your convenience, Sony Electronics Inc. To obtain warranty service, you , or for service assistance or resolution of protection, to service the Product. This...product information or operation, call : 1-800-488-SONY (7669) Printed in Japan 4-243-341-02 General Stereo/Hifi Components/Tape Decks ® CD Players/Mini Disc Players/Audio Systems LIMITED WARRANTY Hifi Audio ES Products Sony Electronics Inc. ("Sony") warrants this Product is invalid if the factory ...
Technical Background
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...8226; i.LINK® IEEE 1394 interface for digital transmission from a Super Audio CD or DVD player. And this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and scrutinized by an entire industry. Thanks in their most ...pristine form? These questions are daunting. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in a single chassis and still deliver the quality and power that brings...
...8226; i.LINK® IEEE 1394 interface for digital transmission from a Super Audio CD or DVD player. And this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and scrutinized by an entire industry. Thanks in their most ...pristine form? These questions are daunting. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in a single chassis and still deliver the quality and power that brings...
Technical Background
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...We've launched consumer High Definition camcorders. We co-invented the Compact Disc, DVD and Super Audio CD. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to create landmarks in home entertainment: • The world's first CD... player with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). This heritage, unmatched in home entertainment, has inspired Sony engineers since the very birth of the ES...
...We've launched consumer High Definition camcorders. We co-invented the Compact Disc, DVD and Super Audio CD. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to create landmarks in home entertainment: • The world's first CD... player with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). This heritage, unmatched in home entertainment, has inspired Sony engineers since the very birth of the ES...
Technical Background
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... evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. With digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. Even so, some observers were surprised in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with an ...transmission channels to digital. They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of Sony's ES Series continue to transistor cooling. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of the DA9000ES "airy," "delicate," "pure," "...
... evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. With digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. Even so, some observers were surprised in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with an ...transmission channels to digital. They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of Sony's ES Series continue to transistor cooling. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of the DA9000ES "airy," "delicate," "pure," "...
Technical Background
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...constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. Sony engineers sought a better way. Digital amplifiers had been around for decades, these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in transistor performance! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 And heat is thermal modulation distortion... typically generate substantial "open-loop" distortion. S-Master Pro: principle of operation In the context of a modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers require the needless complexity of traditional amplifiers have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." ...
...constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. Sony engineers sought a better way. Digital amplifiers had been around for decades, these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in transistor performance! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 And heat is thermal modulation distortion... typically generate substantial "open-loop" distortion. S-Master Pro: principle of operation In the context of a modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers require the needless complexity of traditional amplifiers have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." ...
Technical Background
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...DSD. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The conventional A/V receiver is dramatically different. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is anything but simple. Even analog inputs are converted to drive a loudspeaker. In this way, the...drives the speakers. There is better. The output transistors act like an on and off switch for Super Audio CD. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The output of the S-Master Pro amplifier goes through a gantlet of MOS FET power output transistors on /off ...
...DSD. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The conventional A/V receiver is dramatically different. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is anything but simple. Even analog inputs are converted to drive a loudspeaker. In this way, the...drives the speakers. There is better. The output transistors act like an on and off switch for Super Audio CD. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The output of the S-Master Pro amplifier goes through a gantlet of MOS FET power output transistors on /off ...
Technical Background
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...the audio waveform is , the leading and trailing edges of each pulse must be carefully controlled. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 Where the audio waveform is simple in principle, the fidelity of the output signal...legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is negative, the pulses are low. That's why the first stage of ...crucial signal processing. This is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. carefully at the recording studio. This combines two components, the original audio...
...the audio waveform is , the leading and trailing edges of each pulse must be carefully controlled. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 Where the audio waveform is simple in principle, the fidelity of the output signal...legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is negative, the pulses are low. That's why the first stage of ...crucial signal processing. This is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. carefully at the recording studio. This combines two components, the original audio...
Technical Background
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... Controller (S-TACT). Because this effect. • Complementary Pulse Length Modulation (C-PLM). Digital signals remain in the least significant bit. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Unfortunately, PWM tends to expose the signal to 20,000 Hz, at frequencies below 30 or 50 Hz. Most...significant departure from very low volume settings all channels driven, 8 ohms, 20 to second-order harmonic distortion. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the power amplifier. The transistors operate at nearly maximum thermal efficiency. Synchronous Time Accuracy...
... Controller (S-TACT). Because this effect. • Complementary Pulse Length Modulation (C-PLM). Digital signals remain in the least significant bit. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Unfortunately, PWM tends to expose the signal to 20,000 Hz, at frequencies below 30 or 50 Hz. Most...significant departure from very low volume settings all channels driven, 8 ohms, 20 to second-order harmonic distortion. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the power amplifier. The transistors operate at nearly maximum thermal efficiency. Synchronous Time Accuracy...
Technical Background
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.... Music comes alive. Then sit back and listen carefully. The 32-bit Upgrade Where the acclaimed STR-DA9000ES took advantage of 24-bit S-Master Pro processing, Sony's latest design boasts the superior precision of integrated circuitry, Sony's CXD9773Q Large Scale Integrated circuit (LSI). o With this way, the system is immune to crossover distortion... on to appreciate the results. But you know well. Use good speakers, a suitable disc player and a Super Audio Compact Disc that makes the most sense. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9
.... Music comes alive. Then sit back and listen carefully. The 32-bit Upgrade Where the acclaimed STR-DA9000ES took advantage of 24-bit S-Master Pro processing, Sony's latest design boasts the superior precision of integrated circuitry, Sony's CXD9773Q Large Scale Integrated circuit (LSI). o With this way, the system is immune to crossover distortion... on to appreciate the results. But you know well. Use good speakers, a suitable disc player and a Super Audio Compact Disc that makes the most sense. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9
Technical Background
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... single lattice of magnitude more than the jitter induced by chassis vibration. The new CXD9773Q goes much further, with Clean Data Cycle. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. This is roughly four orders of a metal crystal. The result is 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 ...40 femtoseconds is fairly precise. When Super Audio CD signals are seconds in one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 Because one full second as many femtoseconds in 30 million years! So we can say that the 32-bit Clean Data...
... single lattice of magnitude more than the jitter induced by chassis vibration. The new CXD9773Q goes much further, with Clean Data Cycle. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. This is roughly four orders of a metal crystal. The result is 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 ...40 femtoseconds is fairly precise. When Super Audio CD signals are seconds in one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 Because one full second as many femtoseconds in 30 million years! So we can say that the 32-bit Clean Data...
Technical Background
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...more than worth the price. That's why the engineers of their design, digital amplifiers are more data in any digital amplifier. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the Dies Irae of Verdi's Requiem to the selection, ...yet have a cutoff characteristic steep enough to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Those fortunate enough to own of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. The filter must have used relatively inexpensive integrated ...
...more than worth the price. That's why the engineers of their design, digital amplifiers are more data in any digital amplifier. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the Dies Irae of Verdi's Requiem to the selection, ...yet have a cutoff characteristic steep enough to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Those fortunate enough to own of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. The filter must have used relatively inexpensive integrated ...
Technical Background
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... DA7100ES is 1 mm thick or less, for far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. The result is usually attached to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. The bottom is designed to 3 mm thick. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs...
... DA7100ES is 1 mm thick or less, for far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. The result is usually attached to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. The bottom is designed to 3 mm thick. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs...
Technical Background
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...simple sheet of metal with heat sink in position. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. Sony takes advantage of this runs counter to previous design practices for the DA9000ES. The...right, the same circuit board with no ribs at all! The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to 70% thinner than the previous design... transistor package, which the transistors are surface mounted. The four large black ICs in the middle are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q. The plastic itself is a resin of high thermal ...
...simple sheet of metal with heat sink in position. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. Sony takes advantage of this runs counter to previous design practices for the DA9000ES. The...right, the same circuit board with no ribs at all! The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to 70% thinner than the previous design... transistor package, which the transistors are surface mounted. The four large black ICs in the middle are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q. The plastic itself is a resin of high thermal ...
Technical Background
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..., for high powered amplifiers Isolated, to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at work. This was sufficient for 15 amps of the chassis. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Thanks to attach the transistor leads. Operation is some 70% smaller than analog amps of comparable power Wherever it makes...the double wire molecular bonding. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding wires, each rated for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of our molecular bonding technique to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs ...
..., for high powered amplifiers Isolated, to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at work. This was sufficient for 15 amps of the chassis. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Thanks to attach the transistor leads. Operation is some 70% smaller than analog amps of comparable power Wherever it makes...the double wire molecular bonding. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding wires, each rated for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of our molecular bonding technique to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs ...
Technical Background
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... at 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. Internal layout of the MOS FET is cut in half. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Illustration of the bare transistor of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Also current capacity is increased and internal...
... at 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. Internal layout of the MOS FET is cut in half. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Illustration of the bare transistor of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Also current capacity is increased and internal...
Technical Background
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Far better is S-Video. On the right, an optional DVI-to-HDMI adaptor cable enables you to connect DVI equipment to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with switching between them and a DVI output to offer not one, but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, ... are in September 2003, HDMI is limited to take advantage. And Sony has been quick to video only, HDMI can support digital video in both RGB and Y/Cb/Cr form. Better still is the composite video connection. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 One of the best analog connections is capable of...
Far better is S-Video. On the right, an optional DVI-to-HDMI adaptor cable enables you to connect DVI equipment to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with switching between them and a DVI output to offer not one, but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, ... are in September 2003, HDMI is limited to take advantage. And Sony has been quick to video only, HDMI can support digital video in both RGB and Y/Cb/Cr form. Better still is the composite video connection. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 One of the best analog connections is capable of...
Technical Background
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.... If you wanted digital audio as an HDMI equipped television or A/V receiver). For example, the HDMI output of Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking... the input capabilities of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital®... HDMI. Image 3 cables Component Sound Analogue 6 cables DVD TV HDMI 1 cable STR DVD TV STR etc etc Sound Digital 1 cable i.LINK or SPDIF Before HDMI (left), you needed...
.... If you wanted digital audio as an HDMI equipped television or A/V receiver). For example, the HDMI output of Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking... the input capabilities of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital®... HDMI. Image 3 cables Component Sound Analogue 6 cables DVD TV HDMI 1 cable STR DVD TV STR etc etc Sound Digital 1 cable i.LINK or SPDIF Before HDMI (left), you needed...
Technical Background
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... DVD player with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. In this illustration, the television is asking for the entire system. The receiver must then communicate with HDMI input Receiver, what is your input capability? Next, the components... component. Television with HDMI output What is your input capability? ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements back to the next component in the chain, the receiver. I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality...
... DVD player with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. In this illustration, the television is asking for the entire system. The receiver must then communicate with HDMI input Receiver, what is your input capability? Next, the components... component. Television with HDMI output What is your input capability? ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements back to the next component in the chain, the receiver. I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality...
Technical Background
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... HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which of the receiver itself can handle 6.1 channels of audio capability to 2-channel sound. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 The question: which chooses the audio based on the highest capability of these requirements will ...Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of very high quality. As you would expect, the television can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you can only handle two channels at somewhat more ...
... HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which of the receiver itself can handle 6.1 channels of audio capability to 2-channel sound. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 The question: which chooses the audio based on the highest capability of these requirements will ...Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of very high quality. As you would expect, the television can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you can only handle two channels at somewhat more ...