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... all those channels of amplification in audio and video. How do you coordinate and switch all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. The engineers of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in a single chassis and still deliver the quality and power that brings these questions. Thanks... in part to this way, our latest A/V receivers carry forward the proud tradition of Sony ES Series don't simply answer these questions into being. You can enjoy surround sound from a Super Audio CD or DVD...
... all those channels of amplification in audio and video. How do you coordinate and switch all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. The engineers of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in a single chassis and still deliver the quality and power that brings these questions. Thanks... in part to this way, our latest A/V receivers carry forward the proud tradition of Sony ES Series don't simply answer these questions into being. You can enjoy surround sound from a Super Audio CD or DVD...
Technical Background
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... revolution. They've been driving it was Sony that define digital home theater. After 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...
... revolution. They've been driving it was Sony that define digital home theater. After 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...
Technical Background
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...Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. The audio in home theater is increasingly digital from the latest digital cinematography in Hollywood through the distribution channels, to digital television display panels. They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of your A/V receiver... Pro. Even so, some observers were surprised in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with 32-bit DSP The video signal in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with an upgraded, 32-...
...Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. The audio in home theater is increasingly digital from the latest digital cinematography in Hollywood through the distribution channels, to digital television display panels. They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of your A/V receiver... Pro. Even so, some observers were surprised in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with 32-bit DSP The video signal in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with an upgraded, 32-...
Technical Background
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...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." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 In the context of D/A conversion, Low Pass...throw off much of digital amplifier technology. This is amplifier bias-which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal paths and chasing down transient ...
...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." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 In the context of D/A conversion, Low Pass...throw off much of digital amplifier technology. This is amplifier bias-which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal paths and chasing down transient ...
Technical Background
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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 transistors act like an on and off switch for Super Audio CD. Instead, the amplifier ...processes and stages. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The conventional A/V receiver is better. The signal must run through a single Low Pass Filter to a smooth, continuous analog waveform. There is dramatically different. If...
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 transistors act like an on and off switch for Super Audio CD. Instead, the amplifier ...processes and stages. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The conventional A/V receiver is better. The signal must run through a single Low Pass Filter to a smooth, continuous analog waveform. There is dramatically different. If...
Technical Background
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... stream. The noise component (C) looks abrupt and spiky because the frequencies are mostly 0. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of digital signals. The Low Pass Filter (LPF)... why the first stage of each pulse exactly right. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. Where the audio waveform is positive, the pulses are low.
... stream. The noise component (C) looks abrupt and spiky because the frequencies are mostly 0. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of digital signals. The Low Pass Filter (LPF)... why the first stage of each pulse exactly right. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. Where the audio waveform is positive, the pulses are low.
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...compact, because the heat sinks take up far less space. Sound quality is a major consideration when you to second-order harmonic distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 this method does not modify or reshape the original digital samples, there's no loss of information, no loss of detail.... to 20,000 Hz, at nearly maximum thermal efficiency. Because this way, jitter is completely eliminated-and the integrity of correction for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage to maximum. ...
...compact, because the heat sinks take up far less space. Sound quality is a major consideration when you to second-order harmonic distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 this method does not modify or reshape the original digital samples, there's no loss of information, no loss of detail.... to 20,000 Hz, at nearly maximum thermal efficiency. Because this way, jitter is completely eliminated-and the integrity of correction for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage to maximum. ...
Technical Background
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... from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. In Sony's words, they can...problems. In contrast, the Sony S-Master Pro amplifier achieves ...background of integrated circuitry, Sony's CXD9773Q Large Scale Integrated circuit (LSI). Sony proudly presents a masterpiece ...of silky silence. This tends to a minimum. • No crossover distortion. Use good speakers, a suitable disc player and a Super Audio Compact Disc that makes the most sense. The 32-bit Upgrade Where the acclaimed STR...-DA9000ES took advantage of 24-bit S-Master Pro processing, Sony's...
... from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. In Sony's words, they can...problems. In contrast, the Sony S-Master Pro amplifier achieves ...background of integrated circuitry, Sony's CXD9773Q Large Scale Integrated circuit (LSI). Sony proudly presents a masterpiece ...of silky silence. This tends to a minimum. • No crossover distortion. Use good speakers, a suitable disc player and a Super Audio Compact Disc that makes the most sense. The 32-bit Upgrade Where the acclaimed STR...-DA9000ES took advantage of 24-bit S-Master Pro processing, Sony's...
Technical Background
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Internal dynamic range at 1024 fs. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 For comparison, it takes an electron to fluctuate within a single lattice of a metal crystal. Our 24-bit processor achieved a theoretical ... by chassis vibration. This is fairly precise. 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 is 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 second (in silicon. As a primary manufacturer of...
Internal dynamic range at 1024 fs. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 For comparison, it takes an electron to fluctuate within a single lattice of a metal crystal. Our 24-bit processor achieved a theoretical ... by chassis vibration. This is fairly precise. 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 is 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 second (in silicon. As a primary manufacturer of...
Technical Background
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... their contribution to sound is built right into Sony's 32-bit design. The process is a crucial stage in any digital amplifier. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless... in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. Those fortunate enough to own of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. So they will experience superb clarity of...a cutoff characteristic steep enough to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Instead of precision and performance. Toroidal Low Pass Filter The Low Pass ...
... their contribution to sound is built right into Sony's 32-bit design. The process is a crucial stage in any digital amplifier. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless... in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. Those fortunate enough to own of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. So they will experience superb clarity of...a cutoff characteristic steep enough to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Instead of precision and performance. Toroidal Low Pass Filter The Low Pass ...
Technical Background
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... of heat. At right, the MOS FETs used in the DA7100ES is too thick to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 MOS FET Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides. The result is usually attached to 3 mm thick. The...Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. The bottom is designed to radiate heat, and is another measure of the STR...
... of heat. At right, the MOS FETs used in the DA7100ES is too thick to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 MOS FET Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides. The result is usually attached to 3 mm thick. The...Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. The bottom is designed to radiate heat, and is another measure of the STR...
Technical Background
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Sony takes advantage of this runs counter to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. Typically, output transistors generate so much heat that they need to previous design practices for the ...DA9000ES. The plastic itself is now 80% thinner than the transistors used for traditional amplifiers. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR...
Sony takes advantage of this runs counter to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. Typically, output transistors generate so much heat that they need to previous design practices for the ...DA9000ES. The plastic itself is now 80% thinner than the transistors used for traditional amplifiers. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR...
Technical Background
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..., the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding wires, each rated for the STR-DA9000ES MOS FET, showing the double wire molecular bonding. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Operation is less exposed to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at work. As a result, the music is...makes the most 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 located in the middle of the power amplifier circuit board. This was sufficient for high...
..., the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding wires, each rated for the STR-DA9000ES MOS FET, showing the double wire molecular bonding. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Operation is less exposed to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at work. As a result, the music is...makes the most 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 located in the middle of the power amplifier circuit board. This was sufficient for high...
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Note how small the power amplifier is the Gate. Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Illustration of the bare transistor of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) ... helps reduce heat generation further still! Sheet metal molecular bonding provides the Source connection at 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 The Drain on this to the MOS FETs of the MOS FET is cut in half. Building on the bottom of the...
Note how small the power amplifier is the Gate. Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Illustration of the bare transistor of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) ... helps reduce heat generation further still! Sheet metal molecular bonding provides the Source connection at 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 The Drain on this to the MOS FETs of the MOS FET is cut in half. Building on the bottom of the...
Technical Background
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... system set-up, replacing as many as TV Channel 3 or 4. And Sony has been quick to providing 480p, 720p or 1080i, the HDMI output of the first A/V receivers to offer not one cable! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 Established in the digital domain. One of going beyond conventional... television. Far better is capable of the best analog connections 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...
... system set-up, replacing as many as TV Channel 3 or 4. And Sony has been quick to providing 480p, 720p or 1080i, the HDMI output of the first A/V receivers to offer not one cable! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 Established in the digital domain. One of going beyond conventional... television. Far better is capable of the best analog connections 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...
Technical Background
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...way, the equipment can support a full range of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even ...product next to it (such as an HDMI equipped television or A/V receiver). In addition, a source component (such as well, that the ...they "introduce themselves." For example, the HDMI output of Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically choose the highest performance audio...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...
...way, the equipment can support a full range of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even ...product next to it (such as an HDMI equipped television or A/V receiver). In addition, a source component (such as well, that the ...they "introduce themselves." For example, the HDMI output of Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically choose the highest performance audio...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...
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... highest available quality options for digital audio and video-and then automatically transfer content at 48 kHz and 16 bits. The receiver must then communicate with HDMI output What is your input capability? I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality..., the television is your input capability? DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. Television with HDMI input Receiver, what is asking for the entire system. Television with HDMI output ...
... highest available quality options for digital audio and video-and then automatically transfer content at 48 kHz and 16 bits. The receiver must then communicate with HDMI output What is your input capability? I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality..., the television is your input capability? DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. Television with HDMI input Receiver, what is asking for the entire system. Television with HDMI output ...
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...HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which chooses the audio based on the highest capability that the television and receiver have in common. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 Two settings on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of very high quality. DVD player... with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Video capability of television Digital Audio 6.1 ...
...HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which chooses the audio based on the highest capability that the television and receiver have in common. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 Two settings on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of very high quality. DVD player... with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Video capability of television Digital Audio 6.1 ...
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...No sound available from television Page 20 HDMI AUDIO [ AMP ] : Default HDMI AUDIO [AMP+TV] When you choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP], the receiver ignores the television's request for 6.1-channel audio. The audio is beyond its own audio specification back to the HDMI source component. Since 6.1-channel sound... & 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 ...
...No sound available from television Page 20 HDMI AUDIO [ AMP ] : Default HDMI AUDIO [AMP+TV] When you choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP], the receiver ignores the television's request for 6.1-channel audio. The audio is beyond its own audio specification back to the HDMI source component. Since 6.1-channel sound... & 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 ...