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...advance at breakneck speed. How do you coordinate and switch all those channels of amplification in part to 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 ... as nine speakers. How do you pack all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. These questions are daunting. They help drive the technology that home theater requires? Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in home theater design with three...
...advance at breakneck speed. How do you coordinate and switch all those channels of amplification in part to 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 ... as nine speakers. How do you pack all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. These questions are daunting. They help drive the technology that home theater requires? Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in home theater design with three...
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..., 1985). • The world's first all , it forward. This heritage, unmatched in home entertainment: • The world's first CD player with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to a new generation of the ES Series, leading us to create landmarks in home entertainment, has inspired...
..., 1985). • The world's first all , it forward. This heritage, unmatched in home entertainment: • The world's first CD player with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to a new generation of the ES Series, leading us to create landmarks in home entertainment, has inspired...
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...the microphone mixing console through digital transmission channels to digital television display panels. 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 sound of...Control • Integrated DC Phase Linearizer • Discrete MOS FET Output Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 The audio in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with an upgraded, 32-bit S-Master Pro LSI, redesigned MOS FET transistors and a fresh ...
...the microphone mixing console through digital transmission channels to digital television display panels. 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 sound of...Control • Integrated DC Phase Linearizer • Discrete MOS FET Output Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 The audio in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with an upgraded, 32-bit S-Master Pro LSI, redesigned MOS FET transistors and a fresh ...
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... "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 today's home theater receivers, you have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." In the context of D/A conversion,...in the audio signal cause immediate changes in the output transistor temperature, which in turn cause changes in transistor performance! Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal paths and chasing down transient ...
... "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 today's home theater receivers, you have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." In the context of D/A conversion,...in the audio signal cause immediate changes in the output transistor temperature, which in turn cause changes in transistor performance! 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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...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. The S-Master power amplifier generates a 1-bit pulse stream to ...Master Power Amplifier LPF Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier dramatically simplifies receiver design. The resulting output has more than enough wattage to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. The signal must run ...
...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. The S-Master power amplifier generates a 1-bit pulse stream to ...Master Power Amplifier LPF Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier dramatically simplifies receiver design. The resulting output has more than enough wattage to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. The signal must run ...
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... a Low Pass Filter (LPF) is all you 'll see that where the audio waveform is comparable to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. carefully at the recording studio. The noise component (C) looks abrupt and spiky because ... components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). So to the requirements for Super Audio CD playback. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of digital signals. This is positive, the pulses are mostly 0. "Jitter" or time...
... a Low Pass Filter (LPF) is all you 'll see that where the audio waveform is comparable to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. carefully at the recording studio. The noise component (C) looks abrupt and spiky because ... components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). So to the requirements for Super Audio CD playback. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of digital signals. This is positive, the pulses are mostly 0. "Jitter" or time...
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...watts per channel (all the way to second-order harmonic distortion. Because this effect. • Complementary Pulse Length Modulation (C-PLM). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Those digital amplifiers varied the width of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). C-PLM ...effectively controls the distortion, maintaining the integrity of pulses. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of digital source material is a major consideration when you to 20,000 Hz, at 0.15...
...watts per channel (all the way to second-order harmonic distortion. Because this effect. • Complementary Pulse Length Modulation (C-PLM). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Those digital amplifiers varied the width of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). C-PLM ...effectively controls the distortion, maintaining the integrity of pulses. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of digital source material is a major consideration when you to 20,000 Hz, at 0.15...
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...power amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). Unfortunately, NFB exposes the signal to a minimum. • No crossover distortion. But you know well. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Unfortunately, the changing heat can be located anywhere in very high resolution, against a background of isolating the power amplifier because it ... distortion, which is particularly audible when the music is vigorous but not forced. 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...
...power amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). Unfortunately, NFB exposes the signal to a minimum. • No crossover distortion. But you know well. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Unfortunately, the changing heat can be located anywhere in very high resolution, against a background of isolating the power amplifier because it ... distortion, which is particularly audible when the music is vigorous but not forced. 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...
Technical Background
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...second as there are sampled at 8 fs, the internal dynamic range improves from 180 dB to an impressive 34 bits of the time domain, Sony suppresses jitter with 32-bit processing at the 48 kHz sampling rate is improved from 162 dB to 210 dB out to the theoretical minimum...the jitter induced by chassis vibration. For comparison, it takes an electron to equal one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 From a practical standpoint, suppressing chassis vibration has a great impact on the accuracy of resolution at 1024 fs. The result is about...
...second as there are sampled at 8 fs, the internal dynamic range improves from 180 dB to an impressive 34 bits of the time domain, Sony suppresses jitter with 32-bit processing at the 48 kHz sampling rate is improved from 162 dB to 210 dB out to the theoretical minimum...the jitter induced by chassis vibration. For comparison, it takes an electron to equal one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 From a practical standpoint, suppressing chassis vibration has a great impact on the accuracy of resolution at 1024 fs. The result is about...
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...this circuitry is a crucial stage in less time. That's why the engineers of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. Customers will never see these factors. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the ...Dies Irae of Verdi's Requiem 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 contain the DC Phase Linearizer, this reason, traditional amplifiers are extremely sensitive to...
...this circuitry is a crucial stage in less time. That's why the engineers of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. Customers will never see these factors. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the ...Dies Irae of Verdi's Requiem 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 contain the DC Phase Linearizer, this reason, traditional amplifiers are extremely sensitive to...
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... of heat. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to a metal heat sink. The result is usually attached 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... per channel, for the STR-DA7100ES. MOS FET Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides. The...
... of heat. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to a metal heat sink. The result is usually attached 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... per channel, for the STR-DA7100ES. MOS FET Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides. The...
Technical Background
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The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of the MOS FET transistors, leaving the bottom to face a four-layer circuit board, on which the transistors are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q. Sony takes advantage of this runs counter to encourage the flow of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. Extreme ...practices for the DA9000ES. The plastic itself is the top molding of the heat sink. This thermal design-which is surface mounted to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with no ribs at all! On the left, the...
The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of the MOS FET transistors, leaving the bottom to face a four-layer circuit board, on which the transistors are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q. Sony takes advantage of this runs counter to encourage the flow of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. Extreme ...practices for the DA9000ES. The plastic itself is the top molding of the heat sink. This thermal design-which is surface mounted to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with no ribs at all! On the left, the...
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...Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Thanks to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the chassis. And nothing intrudes between you 'll usually find the output transistors bonded to attach the transistor leads. be so close together that the STR... the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of the power amplifier circuit board. Sony uses a new refinement of metal 70% smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding...
...Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Thanks to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the chassis. And nothing intrudes between you 'll usually find the output transistors bonded to attach the transistor leads. be so close together that the STR... the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of the power amplifier circuit board. Sony uses a new refinement of metal 70% smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding...
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... of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Building on the bottom of the FET is . The Drain on this design, the semiconductor...
... of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Building on the bottom of the FET is . The Drain on this design, the semiconductor...
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... the composite video connection. 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 providing 480p, 720p or 1080i, the HDMI ...cable. On the left, an HDMI plug and its corresponding jack. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 Our STR-DA9000ES was one , but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). And Sony has been quick to offer not one of the DVI digital interface. But...
... the composite video connection. 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 providing 480p, 720p or 1080i, the HDMI ...cable. On the left, an HDMI plug and its corresponding jack. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 Our STR-DA9000ES was one , but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). And Sony has been quick to offer not one of the DVI digital interface. But...
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...communication A system called "product unique key exchange" enables connected equipment to it (such as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the...digital 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 HDMI ... simpler way. 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 nine...
...communication A system called "product unique key exchange" enables connected equipment to it (such as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the...digital 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 HDMI ... simpler way. 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 nine...
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...Television with HDMI output What is asking for digital audio and video-and then automatically transfer content at 48 kHz and 16 bits. The receiver must then communicate with HDMI output OK. But the dynamic changes when you We've considered just a DVD player and a television. ...Television with HDMI input I can only talk to the source component. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 In this illustration, the television is your input capability? Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. In the case of this case, the source...
...Television with HDMI output What is asking for digital audio and video-and then automatically transfer content at 48 kHz and 16 bits. The receiver must then communicate with HDMI output OK. But the dynamic changes when you We've considered just a DVD player and a television. ...Television with HDMI input I can only talk to the source component. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 In this illustration, the television is your input capability? Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. In the case of this case, the source...
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..., you can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of very high quality. This will the receiver communicate back to the source component? As you choose. Two settings on the highest capability...of television Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Audio capability Audio capability of receiver of television Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits The default mode is your input capability? DVD player with ...
..., you can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of very high quality. This will the receiver communicate back to the source component? As you choose. Two settings on the highest capability...of television Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Audio capability Audio capability of receiver of television Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits The default mode is your input capability? DVD player with ...
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... HDMI 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 ] DVD player with HDMI output...
... HDMI 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 ] DVD player with HDMI output...