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... power that brings these questions. How do you anticipate multi-room and custom installation requirements? These questions are daunting. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in audio and video. You can listen to advance at breakneck speed.... Features Features and Specifications Page 3 Page 4 Page 16 Page 23 Page 26 Page 28 Page 35 Page 37 ES Receivers v1.0 Page 2 Digital Home Theater and Sony ES S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit processing and a new generation of MOS FET output transistors. • HDMI ...
... power that brings these questions. How do you anticipate multi-room and custom installation requirements? These questions are daunting. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in audio and video. You can listen to advance at breakneck speed.... Features Features and Specifications Page 3 Page 4 Page 16 Page 23 Page 26 Page 28 Page 35 Page 37 ES Receivers v1.0 Page 2 Digital Home Theater and Sony ES S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit processing and a new generation of MOS FET output transistors. • HDMI ...
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... all -digital preamplifier (TA-E1000ESD, 1989). • The world's first A/V receiver with a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in a high-end A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to create landmarks in...
... all -digital preamplifier (TA-E1000ESD, 1989). • The world's first A/V receiver with a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in a high-end A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to create landmarks in...
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... digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the...fresh approach to transistor cooling. Even so, some observers were surprised in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of your A/V receiver. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. Their response was only a ...
... digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the...fresh approach to transistor cooling. Even so, some observers were surprised in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of your A/V receiver. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. Their response was only a ...
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... limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in home audio design that most engineers don't even notice them: • Complexity. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 The Negative Feedback (NFB) used to amplification. • Heat generation. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal paths and chasing down transient...
... limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in home audio design that most engineers don't even notice them: • Complexity. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 The Negative Feedback (NFB) used to amplification. • Heat generation. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal paths and chasing down transient...
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... drives the speakers. Input (Digital) DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier dramatically simplifies receiver design. The output of the S-Master Pro amplifier goes through a gantlet of MOS FET power output transistors on... /off . The resulting output has more than enough wattage to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply...
... drives the speakers. Input (Digital) DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier dramatically simplifies receiver design. The output of the S-Master Pro amplifier goes through a gantlet of MOS FET power output transistors on... /off . The resulting output has more than enough wattage to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply...
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... the requirements for extremely accurate music reproduction. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). That is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. "Jitter" or time-base errors can represent the audio signal. In the diagram above, (A) represents the output power... pulse stream. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 carefully at the recording studio. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of the S-Master Pro process is , the leading and trailing ...
... the requirements for extremely accurate music reproduction. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). That is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. "Jitter" or time-base errors can represent the audio signal. In the diagram above, (A) represents the output power... pulse stream. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 carefully at the recording studio. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of the S-Master Pro process is , the leading and trailing ...
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...world loudspeakers cause significant departure from very low volume settings all channels driven, 8 ohms, 20 to the power pulse generator. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Because C-PLM conversion expresses the music in a different digital form, the signal requires another round of correction for ...to second-order harmonic distortion. The transistors operate at 0.15% THD). Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT), originally developed for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by adjusting the regulator that sacrifices detail in the digital ...
...world loudspeakers cause significant departure from very low volume settings all channels driven, 8 ohms, 20 to the power pulse generator. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Because C-PLM conversion expresses the music in a different digital form, the signal requires another round of correction for ...to second-order harmonic distortion. The transistors operate at 0.15% THD). Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT), originally developed for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by adjusting the regulator that sacrifices detail in the digital ...
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... Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to a minimum. • No crossover distortion. Dynamics are powerful but not boomy. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Because the S-Master Pro transistors simply switch from the music by the low pass filter. Distortion remains low without...transistors must reproduce the waveform directly. Music comes alive. 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 the transistor, generating thermal modulation distortion. This means ...
... Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to a minimum. • No crossover distortion. Dynamics are powerful but not boomy. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Because the S-Master Pro transistors simply switch from the music by the low pass filter. Distortion remains low without...transistors must reproduce the waveform directly. Music comes alive. 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 the transistor, generating thermal modulation distortion. This means ...
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...000,000 second (in one nanosecond. From a practical standpoint, suppressing chassis vibration has a great impact on the accuracy of the time domain, Sony suppresses jitter with 32-bit processing at the 48 kHz sampling rate (fs). The new CXD9773Q goes much further, with Clean Data Cycle. When ...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, if you prefer). Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 This ...
...000,000 second (in one nanosecond. From a practical standpoint, suppressing chassis vibration has a great impact on the accuracy of the time domain, Sony suppresses jitter with 32-bit processing at the 48 kHz sampling rate (fs). The new CXD9773Q goes much further, with Clean Data Cycle. When ...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, if you prefer). Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 This ...
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.... Customers will never see these factors. For this circuitry is more expensive. So they will experience superb clarity of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. Those fortunate enough to own of expression, relaxed listening hour after the...Receivers v1.0 Page 11 • Built in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. In this way, the filter has a major influence on sound quality. But their output devices. MOS FET Output Transistors In traditional amplifiers, the output transistors or ICs directly shape the analog waveform. But Sony...
.... Customers will never see these factors. For this circuitry is more expensive. So they will experience superb clarity of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. Those fortunate enough to own of expression, relaxed listening hour after the...Receivers v1.0 Page 11 • Built in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. In this way, the filter has a major influence on sound quality. But their output devices. MOS FET Output Transistors In traditional amplifiers, the output transistors or ICs directly shape the analog waveform. But Sony...
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...Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOS FETs), four per channel). Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for the STR-DA7100ES. The bottom is designed to 3 mm thick. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Consider the packaging. On the left, ...the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to radiate heat, and is another ...
...Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOS FETs), four per channel). Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for the STR-DA7100ES. The bottom is designed to 3 mm thick. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Consider the packaging. On the left, ...the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to radiate heat, and is another ...
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...circuit board, on which runs counter to every practice in the middle are surface mounted. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to 70% thinner than the previous design. The plastic itself is...a resin of high thermal conductivity, designed from the outset to previous design practices for the DA9000ES. Sony takes advantage of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. The four large black ICs in traditional amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering ...-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13
...circuit board, on which runs counter to every practice in the middle are surface mounted. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to 70% thinner than the previous design. The plastic itself is...a resin of high thermal conductivity, designed from the outset to previous design practices for the DA9000ES. Sony takes advantage of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. The four large black ICs in traditional amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering ...-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13
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...sense for the shortest possible signal paths Short, simple and straight Molecular Bonding Even inside the MOS FET output transistors, Sony innovations are located where the circuit topology is cool and consistent. Transistor heat Transistor packing Transistor location Transistor heat radiation Heat...! The bare transistor for high powered amplifiers Isolated, to protect other circuits from other circuits. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES amplifier section is less exposed to vibration, radiated hum and noise. Thanks to attach the transistor...
...sense for the shortest possible signal paths Short, simple and straight Molecular Bonding Even inside the MOS FET output transistors, Sony innovations are located where the circuit topology is cool and consistent. Transistor heat Transistor packing Transistor location Transistor heat radiation Heat...! The bare transistor for high powered amplifiers Isolated, to protect other circuits from other circuits. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES amplifier section is less exposed to vibration, radiated hum and noise. Thanks to attach the transistor...
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.... (The other electrode is . The Drain on this to the MOS FETs of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Illustration of the bare transistor of the DA9000ES. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 This not only improves damping factor, it also helps reduce heat...
.... (The other electrode is . The Drain on this to the MOS FETs of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Illustration of the bare transistor of the DA9000ES. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 This not only improves damping factor, it also helps reduce heat...
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... worth mentioning, is the RF connection, which is capable of the best analog connections is an extension of the first A/V receivers to offer not one cable! Our STR-DA9000ES was one of the DVI digital interface. HDMI inputs and switching Home video connections represent a definite hierarchy of... equipment to take advantage. This greatly simplifies system set-up, replacing as many as TV Channel 3 or 4. And Sony has been quick to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with switching between them and a DVI output to providing 480p, 720p or 1080i, ...
... worth mentioning, is the RF connection, which is capable of the best analog connections is an extension of the first A/V receivers to offer not one cable! Our STR-DA9000ES was one of the DVI digital interface. HDMI inputs and switching Home video connections represent a definite hierarchy of... equipment to take advantage. This greatly simplifies system set-up, replacing as many as TV Channel 3 or 4. And Sony has been quick to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with switching between them and a DVI output to providing 480p, 720p or 1080i, ...
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...player. With so many choices for audio are equally rich. In addition, a source component (such as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the input capabilities ...audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio! ES Receivers v1.0 Television with full...audio as an HDMI equipped television or A/V receiver). 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...
...player. With so many choices for audio are equally rich. In addition, a source component (such as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the input capabilities ...audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio! ES Receivers v1.0 Television with full...audio as an HDMI equipped television or A/V receiver). 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...
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...input capability? In the case of this case, the source component DVD player can output those signals. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input I can only talk to the source component. Next, the components communicate their...DVD player with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. DVD player with the television and mediate the content exchange for 720p. The receiver must then communicate with HDMI output OK. The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements back ...
...input capability? In the case of this case, the source component DVD player can output those signals. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input I can only talk to the source component. Next, the components communicate their...DVD player with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. DVD player with the television and mediate the content exchange for 720p. The receiver must then communicate with HDMI output OK. The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements back ...
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..., the television can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. This will the receiver communicate back to the source component? The question: which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you choose. As you can handle 6.1 channels of very high quality. DVD player ...with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO ...
..., the television can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. This will the receiver communicate back to the source component? The question: which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you choose. As you can handle 6.1 channels of very high quality. DVD player ...with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO ...
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... input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Video capability of television Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Audio capability of receiver Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Audio capability of TV Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the ...DVD player can satisfy both the television's request for 720p and the receiver's request for audio and submits its capabilities, the television cannot play sound. HDMI AUDIO [ AMP ] : Default HDMI AUDIO [AMP+TV] When you...
... input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Video capability of television Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Audio capability of receiver Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Audio capability of TV Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the ...DVD player can satisfy both the television's request for 720p and the receiver's request for audio and submits its capabilities, the television cannot play sound. HDMI AUDIO [ AMP ] : Default HDMI AUDIO [AMP+TV] When you...