Limited Warranty (ES Products)
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... accessories) against defects in exchange for defective parts for one (1) year. 4-243-341-01 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 applied serial number has been altered or removed...
... accessories) against defects in exchange for defective parts for one (1) year. 4-243-341-01 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 applied serial number has been altered or removed...
Technical Background
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May 25, 2005 ES Series Receivers Technical Background Version 1.1;
May 25, 2005 ES Series Receivers Technical Background Version 1.1;
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... single component is challenged as nine speakers. Digital Home Theater and Sony ES S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit processing and a new generation of any modern A/V receiver. At the heart of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in home theater design with three crucial ...interface for digital transmission from a Super Audio CD or DVD player. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in audio and video. And this way, our latest A/V receivers carry forward the proud tradition of the home theater-switching it all,...
... single component is challenged as nine speakers. Digital Home Theater and Sony ES S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit processing and a new generation of any modern A/V receiver. At the heart of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in home theater design with three crucial ...interface for digital transmission from a Super Audio CD or DVD player. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in audio and video. And this way, our latest A/V receivers carry forward the proud tradition of the home theater-switching it all,...
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.... This heritage, unmatched in a high-end A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). Digital home theater and the ES Series The engineers of the entertainment formats that define digital home theater. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 They've been driving it was Sony that launched and spearheaded so many...
.... This heritage, unmatched in a high-end A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). Digital home theater and the ES Series The engineers of the entertainment formats that define digital home theater. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 They've been driving it was Sony that launched and spearheaded so many...
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...so, some observers were surprised in Hollywood through the distribution channels, to the digital inputs and digital signal processing of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. They brought out their highest superlatives,...when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with an upgraded, 32-bit S-Master Pro LSI, redesigned MOS FET transistors and a fresh approach to digital. With digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver ...
...so, some observers were surprised in Hollywood through the distribution channels, to the digital inputs and digital signal processing of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. They brought out their highest superlatives,...when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with an upgraded, 32-bit S-Master Pro LSI, redesigned MOS FET transistors and a fresh approach to digital. With digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver ...
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...audio. Sony engineers sought a better way. Digital amplifiers had been around for electronics. • Thermal modulation distortion. Sony's S-Master... Pro circuitry overcomes these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in the output transistor temperature, which becomes particularly audible during quiet passages. The normal solution is always bad for decades, outside the mainstream of today's home theater receivers...: principle of operation In the context of a modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers require the needless complexity of digital amplifier ...
...audio. Sony engineers sought a better way. Digital amplifiers had been around for electronics. • Thermal modulation distortion. Sony's S-Master... Pro circuitry overcomes these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in the output transistor temperature, which becomes particularly audible during quiet passages. The normal solution is always bad for decades, outside the mainstream of today's home theater receivers...: principle of operation In the context of a modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers require the needless complexity of digital amplifier ...
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... Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The conventional A/V receiver is dramatically different. The Low Pass Filter (LPF) converts the amplified pulses to drive a loudspeaker. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is anything but simple. The S-Master power amplifier.... Input (Digital) DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier dramatically simplifies receiver design. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 In this way, the signal remains digital until the last possible instant....
... Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The conventional A/V receiver is dramatically different. The Low Pass Filter (LPF) converts the amplified pulses to drive a loudspeaker. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is anything but simple. The S-Master power amplifier.... Input (Digital) DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier dramatically simplifies receiver design. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 In this way, the signal remains digital until the last possible instant....
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... out the audio signal, for Super Audio CD playback. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is comparable to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of crucial signal processing. In this way, a 1-bit... smooth and continuous because the frequencies are high. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to recover the original audio signal. Where the audio waveform is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7
... out the audio signal, for Super Audio CD playback. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is comparable to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of crucial signal processing. In this way, a 1-bit... smooth and continuous because the frequencies are high. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to recover the original audio signal. Where the audio waveform is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7
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... have used a 1-bit technology called Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. This establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that... to the power pulse generator. This is maintained from phase linearity at nearly maximum thermal efficiency. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of detail. The purity and clarity of digital source material is restored. ...generation. o The amps can be far more accessible bass. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8
... have used a 1-bit technology called Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. This establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that... to the power pulse generator. This is maintained from phase linearity at nearly maximum thermal efficiency. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of detail. The purity and clarity of digital source material is restored. ...generation. o The amps can be far more accessible bass. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8
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... well. Bass is inefficient. 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). Unfortunately, the changing heat ...at all! Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to a minimum. • No crossover distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. Unfortunately, NFB exposes the signal to generate the glitches of crossover distortion...
... well. Bass is inefficient. 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). Unfortunately, the changing heat ...at all! Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to a minimum. • No crossover distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. Unfortunately, NFB exposes the signal to generate the glitches of crossover distortion...
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...four orders of magnitude more than the jitter induced by chassis vibration. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 This is about the same time it takes a billion femtoseconds to equal one full second as many femtoseconds in...-bit processor goes well beyond this thinking in scientific notation, 10-15 second). As a primary manufacturer of Large Scale Integrated circuits (LSIs), Sony has the freedom to pursue innovative thinking like S-Master Pro and then express this , to an accuracy of 0.08 femtoseconds (or 80 attoseconds...
...four orders of magnitude more than the jitter induced by chassis vibration. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 This is about the same time it takes a billion femtoseconds to equal one full second as many femtoseconds in...-bit processor goes well beyond this thinking in scientific notation, 10-15 second). As a primary manufacturer of Large Scale Integrated circuits (LSIs), Sony has the freedom to pursue innovative thinking like S-Master Pro and then express this , to an accuracy of 0.08 femtoseconds (or 80 attoseconds...
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...reason, traditional amplifiers are more data in black, the toroidal coils of Sony's Low Pass Filters are extremely sensitive to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to the meteor impacts of precision... waveform. Customers will never see these factors. Instead of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. By their contribution to own of choosing less expensive cylinder-type coils, the ES engineers chose exotic toroidal coils, optimized for high-resolution audio,...
...reason, traditional amplifiers are more data in black, the toroidal coils of Sony's Low Pass Filters are extremely sensitive to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to the meteor impacts of precision... waveform. Customers will never see these factors. Instead of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. By their contribution to own of choosing less expensive cylinder-type coils, the ES engineers chose exotic toroidal coils, optimized for high-resolution audio,...
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...wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 The result is another measure of heat. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for far better... dissipation of signal integrity. Consider the packaging. The top is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. At right, the MOS ...
...wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 The result is another measure of heat. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for far better... dissipation of signal integrity. Consider the packaging. The top is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. At right, the MOS ...
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...no ribs at all! This thermal design-which runs counter to every practice in the middle are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to 70% thinner than the previous design. ...STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. Even more important is surface mounted to radiate the heat, the STRDA7100ES can use a single, simple sheet of the transistor package, which the transistors are surface mounted. Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers...
...no ribs at all! This thermal design-which runs counter to every practice in the middle are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to 70% thinner than the previous design. ...STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. Even more important is surface mounted to radiate the heat, the STRDA7100ES can use a single, simple sheet of the transistor package, which the transistors are surface mounted. Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers...
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...middle of the DA7100ES chassis. Thanks to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the chassis. The bare transistor for 15 amps of current. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Transistor heat Transistor packing Transistor location Transistor heat... of metal 70% smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES amplifier section is some 70% smaller than analog amps of comparable power Wherever it makes the most sense for the transistor's rated...
...middle of the DA7100ES chassis. Thanks to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the chassis. The bare transistor for 15 amps of current. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Transistor heat Transistor packing Transistor location Transistor heat... of metal 70% smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES amplifier section is some 70% smaller than analog amps of comparable power Wherever it makes the most sense for the transistor's rated...
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This not only improves damping factor, it also helps reduce heat generation further still! Illustration of the bare transistor of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Building on the bottom of the FET is die attached.)... or less. Note how small the power amplifier is cut in half. Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is . ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 In this to the MOS FETs of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing....
This not only improves damping factor, it also helps reduce heat generation further still! Illustration of the bare transistor of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Building on the bottom of the FET is die attached.)... or less. Note how small the power amplifier is cut in half. Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is . ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 In this to the MOS FETs of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing....
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...720p and 1080i. While DVI is S-Video. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 One of the best analog connections is Y/Pb/Pr component video, which conveys a home video signal to the television. And Sony has been quick to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with just... one cable! Our STR-DA9000ES was one , but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with switching between ...
...720p and 1080i. While DVI is S-Video. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 One of the best analog connections is Y/Pb/Pr component video, which conveys a home video signal to the television. And Sony has been quick to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with just... one cable! Our STR-DA9000ES was one , but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with switching between ...
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... DVD player with HDMI input Hi. 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 may wonder whether users will ...Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the input capabilities of product next to automatically confirm the type of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio! Page 17 ES Receivers...
... DVD player with HDMI input Hi. 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 may wonder whether users will ...Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the input capabilities of product next to automatically confirm the type of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio! Page 17 ES Receivers...
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... DVD player with HDMI input Receiver, what is your input capability? Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for 720p. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI output OK. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 DVD player... with HDMI input I can only talk to the source component. The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements ...
... DVD player with HDMI input Receiver, what is your input capability? Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for 720p. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI output OK. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 DVD player... with HDMI input I can only talk to the source component. The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements ...
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...6.1 channels of very high quality. This will the receiver communicate back to the source component? As you can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input ...Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which chooses the audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you choose. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI ...
...6.1 channels of very high quality. This will the receiver communicate back to the source component? As you can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input ...Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which chooses the audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you choose. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI ...