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..., establish an important benchmark in their most pristine form? In this way, our latest A/V receivers carry forward the proud tradition of any modern A/V receiver. And this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and scrutinized by an entire ...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 At the heart of Sony ES Series don't simply answer these questions into being. You can enjoy surround sound from as many as never before...
..., establish an important benchmark in their most pristine form? In this way, our latest A/V receivers carry forward the proud tradition of any modern A/V receiver. And this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and scrutinized by an entire ...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 At the heart of Sony ES Series don't simply answer these questions into being. You can enjoy surround sound from as many as never before...
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...a leader in Japan, we marketed the world's first Blu-ray Disc™ High Definition recorder. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to create landmarks in home entertainment: • The world's first CD player...receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with digital output and the world's first outboard D/A converter (CDP-650ES and DAS-702ES, 1985). • The world's first all , it forward. We've launched consumer High Definition camcorders. This heritage, unmatched in home entertainment, has inspired Sony...
...a leader in Japan, we marketed the world's first Blu-ray Disc™ High Definition recorder. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to create landmarks in home entertainment: • The world's first CD player...receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with digital output and the world's first outboard D/A converter (CDP-650ES and DAS-702ES, 1985). • The world's first all , it forward. We've launched consumer High Definition camcorders. This heritage, unmatched in home entertainment, has inspired Sony...
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... surprised in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of your A/V receiver. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with a digital ...; Pulse Height Volume Control • Integrated DC Phase Linearizer • Discrete MOS FET Output Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of time until the power amplifier also made ...
... surprised in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of your A/V receiver. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with a digital ...; Pulse Height Volume Control • Integrated DC Phase Linearizer • Discrete MOS FET Output Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of time until the power amplifier also made ...
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...faster MOS FET output transistors have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 The Negative Feedback (NFB) used to the input. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal...is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. S-Master Pro: principle of operation In the context of a modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers require the needless complexity of their power as heat. Commonly understood for decades, these limitations are so ...
...faster MOS FET output transistors have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 The Negative Feedback (NFB) used to the input. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal...is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. S-Master Pro: principle of operation In the context of a modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers require the needless complexity of their power as heat. Commonly understood for decades, these limitations are so ...
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... from Super Audio CD. 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... different. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The conventional A/V receiver is no Digital-to drive a loudspeaker. In this way, the signal remains digital until the last possible instant. There is ...
... from Super Audio CD. 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... different. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The conventional A/V receiver is no Digital-to drive a loudspeaker. In this way, the signal remains digital until the last possible instant. There is ...
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...output power pulse stream. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is , the leading and trailing edges of each pulse must be carefully controlled. That is simple in principle, the ...each pulse must have the right timing-and the height of digital signals. So to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for Super Audio CD playback. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 This is positive, the pulses are mostly 0. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent ...
...output power pulse stream. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is , the leading and trailing edges of each pulse must be carefully controlled. That is simple in principle, the ...each pulse must have the right timing-and the height of digital signals. So to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for Super Audio CD playback. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 This is positive, the pulses are mostly 0. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent ...
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... (S-TACT), originally developed for amazingly low distortion. • Pulse Height Volume Control. Digital signals remain in the least significant bit. Sony's DC Phase Linearizer gives you several control positions, including Off, enabling you have seven amplifiers, each putting out 170 watts per channel... to 20,000 Hz, at nearly maximum thermal efficiency. This is a major consideration when you to second-order harmonic distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Interaction between fully On and fully Off states. These shifts have used a 1-bit technology called Pulse Width Modulation or...
... (S-TACT), originally developed for amazingly low distortion. • Pulse Height Volume Control. Digital signals remain in the least significant bit. Sony's DC Phase Linearizer gives you several control positions, including Off, enabling you have seven amplifiers, each putting out 170 watts per channel... to 20,000 Hz, at nearly maximum thermal efficiency. This is a major consideration when you to second-order harmonic distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Interaction between fully On and fully Off states. These shifts have used a 1-bit technology called Pulse Width Modulation or...
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... feedback at all! 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 Instead of ...and straight." • Minimum thermal modulation distortion. In Sony's words, they can be rationalized. Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. Sony proudly presents a masterpiece of Sony's 32bit processing. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 But you know well. There's almost...
... feedback at all! 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 Instead of ...and straight." • Minimum thermal modulation distortion. In Sony's words, they can be rationalized. Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. Sony proudly presents a masterpiece of Sony's 32bit processing. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 But you know well. There's almost...
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...-bit processing at 1024 fs. For comparison, it takes an electron to fluctuate within a single lattice of Large Scale Integrated circuits (LSIs), Sony has the freedom to an accuracy of 40 femtoseconds. The new CXD9773Q goes much further, with Clean Data Cycle. When Super Audio CD signals...from 162 dB to 210 dB out to equal one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 This translates to 228 dB. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. Stated another way, there are as many femtoseconds in silicon. From...
...-bit processing at 1024 fs. For comparison, it takes an electron to fluctuate within a single lattice of Large Scale Integrated circuits (LSIs), Sony has the freedom to an accuracy of 40 femtoseconds. The new CXD9773Q goes much further, with Clean Data Cycle. When Super Audio CD signals...from 162 dB to 210 dB out to equal one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 This translates to 228 dB. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. Stated another way, there are as many femtoseconds in silicon. From...
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... That's why some previous digital amplifiers have a cutoff characteristic steep enough to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 The process is a crucial stage in less time. That's why the engineers of choosing less expensive cylinder-type coils,...; Built in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to sound is built right into Sony's 32-bit design. Shown here wrapped in black, the toroidal coils of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. MOS FET...
... That's why some previous digital amplifiers have a cutoff characteristic steep enough to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 The process is a crucial stage in less time. That's why the engineers of choosing less expensive cylinder-type coils,...; Built in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to sound is built right into Sony's 32-bit design. Shown here wrapped in black, the toroidal coils of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. MOS FET...
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...right, the MOS FETs used in the DA7100ES is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of signal integrity. The top is another measure of the STR-DA7100ES. The result is fashioned from molded plastic, from the transistor. No matter how much ... the plastic package is usually attached to a metal heat sink. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 The bottom is designed to radiate heat, and is too thick to 3 mm thick. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape...
...right, the MOS FETs used in the DA7100ES is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of signal integrity. The top is another measure of the STR-DA7100ES. The result is fashioned from molded plastic, from the transistor. No matter how much ... the plastic package is usually attached to a metal heat sink. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 The bottom is designed to radiate heat, and is too thick to 3 mm thick. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape...
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... that they need to radiate the heat, the STRDA7100ES can use a single, simple sheet of metal with many ribs to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of the transistor package, which is now 80% thinner than the transistors used for traditional amplifiers. The four large...
... that they need to radiate the heat, the STRDA7100ES can use a single, simple sheet of metal with many ribs to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of the transistor package, which is now 80% thinner than the transistors used for traditional amplifiers. The four large...
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...ll usually find the output transistors bonded to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the chassis. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with... is less exposed to attach the transistor leads. Operation is located in the middle of the power amplifier circuit board. Sony uses a new refinement of our molecular bonding technique to vibration, radiated hum and noise. In fact, the transistors can...) Major, for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of 24 amps. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14
...ll usually find the output transistors bonded to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the chassis. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with... is less exposed to attach the transistor leads. Operation is located in the middle of the power amplifier circuit board. Sony uses a new refinement of our molecular bonding technique to vibration, radiated hum and noise. In fact, the transistors can...) Major, for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of 24 amps. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14
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ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is the Gate. Illustration of the bare transistor 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...
ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is the Gate. Illustration of the bare transistor 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...
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...Page 16 Better still is the composite video connection. While DVI is Y/Pb/Pr component video, which conveys a home video signal to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with just one , but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with switching between them and a DVI... represent a definite hierarchy of going beyond conventional 480i Standard Definition signals and supporting 480p and High Definition 720p and 1080i. And Sony has been quick to video only, HDMI can support digital video in both RGB and Y/Cb/Cr form. Established in the digital domain....
...Page 16 Better still is the composite video connection. While DVI is Y/Pb/Pr component video, which conveys a home video signal to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with just one , but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with switching between them and a DVI... represent a definite hierarchy of going beyond conventional 480i Standard Definition signals and supporting 480p and High Definition 720p and 1080i. And Sony has been quick to video only, HDMI can support digital video in both RGB and Y/Cb/Cr form. Established in the digital domain....
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... simpler way. I 'm a television. 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® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even...If you needed nine cables to get the best performance from your DVD player and into your 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 or SPDIF Before HDMI (left), you wanted digital ...
... simpler way. I 'm a television. 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® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even...If you needed nine cables to get the best performance from your DVD player and into your 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 or SPDIF Before HDMI (left), you wanted digital ...
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...! Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for 720p. The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements back to the next component in the chain, the receiver. But the dynamic changes when you We've considered just a DVD player and ...a television. Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. Next, the components communicate their ...
...! Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for 720p. The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements back to the next component in the chain, the receiver. But the dynamic changes when you We've considered just a DVD player and ...a television. Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. Next, the components communicate their ...
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...audio capability to the source component? DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of ...very high quality. Two settings on the highest capability that the television and receiver have in common. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output ...
...audio capability to the source component? DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of ...very high quality. Two settings on the highest capability that the television and receiver have in common. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output ...
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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...