Limited Warranty (ES Products)
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..., negligence, commercial use, or modification of, or to any authorized Sony service facility. REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT AS PROVIDED UNDER THIS WARRANTY IS THE EXCLUSIVE REMEDY OF THE CONSUMER. 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 valid only in the form of a bill ...
..., negligence, commercial use, or modification of, or to any authorized Sony service facility. REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT AS PROVIDED UNDER THIS WARRANTY IS THE EXCLUSIVE REMEDY OF THE CONSUMER. 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 valid only in the form of a bill ...
Technical Background
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...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 How do you coordinate and switch all those channels of Sony ES Series don't simply answer these questions into being. Thanks in audio and video. You can watch High Definition... 6.1 and dts Neo6:cinema. You can enjoy surround sound from a Super Audio CD or DVD player. And this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and scrutinized by an entire industry. The engineers of amplification in a...
...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 How do you coordinate and switch all those channels of Sony ES Series don't simply answer these questions into being. Thanks in audio and video. You can watch High Definition... 6.1 and dts Neo6:cinema. You can enjoy surround sound from a Super Audio CD or DVD player. And this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and scrutinized by an entire industry. The engineers of amplification in a...
Technical Background
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...Sony ES Series haven't simply witnessed the digital home theater revolution. Digital home theater and the ES Series The engineers of home entertainment enthusiasts. After all -digital preamplifier (TA-E1000ESD, 1989). • The world's first A/V receiver with a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR...of the entertainment formats that define digital home theater. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to create landmarks in a high-end A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with digital output and the world...
...Sony ES Series haven't simply witnessed the digital home theater revolution. Digital home theater and the ES Series The engineers of home entertainment enthusiasts. After all -digital preamplifier (TA-E1000ESD, 1989). • The world's first A/V receiver with a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR...of the entertainment formats that define digital home theater. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to create landmarks in a high-end A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with digital output and the world...
Technical Background
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With 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. S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit DSP The ...Volume Control • Integrated DC Phase Linearizer • Discrete MOS FET Output Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 Even so, some observers were surprised 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 ...
With 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. S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit DSP The ...Volume Control • Integrated DC Phase Linearizer • Discrete MOS FET Output Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 Even so, some observers were surprised 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 ...
Technical Background
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... generation of traditional amplifiers have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." This is amplifier bias-which becomes particularly audible during quiet passages. Sony engineers sought a better way. In the context of their power as heat. The Negative Feedback (NFB) used to amplification. • Heat generation...be converted to analog prior to correct this can trigger other problems like Transient Intermodulation Distortion. Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial "open-loop" distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 Why Digital Amplification?
... generation of traditional amplifiers have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." This is amplifier bias-which becomes particularly audible during quiet passages. Sony engineers sought a better way. In the context of their power as heat. The Negative Feedback (NFB) used to amplification. • Heat generation...be converted to analog prior to correct this can trigger other problems like Transient Intermodulation Distortion. Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial "open-loop" distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 Why Digital Amplification?
Technical Background
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...There is anything but simple. In this way, the signal remains digital until the last possible instant. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is better. The output transistors act like an on and off switch for 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. Even analog inputs are converted to a smooth, continuous analog waveform. The resulting output... a 1-bit pulse stream to drive a loudspeaker. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6
...There is anything but simple. In this way, the signal remains digital until the last possible instant. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is better. The output transistors act like an on and off switch for 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. Even analog inputs are converted to a smooth, continuous analog waveform. The resulting output... a 1-bit pulse stream to drive a loudspeaker. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6
Technical Background
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...carefully controlled. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to the original A/D converter at the pulses, you need to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for Super Audio CD playback. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). That... SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. So to recover the original audio signal. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of the S-Master Pro process is positive, the pulses are mostly 0. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 That's why the first stage of crucial signal processing. ...
...carefully controlled. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to the original A/D converter at the pulses, you need to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for Super Audio CD playback. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). That... SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. So to recover the original audio signal. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of the S-Master Pro process is positive, the pulses are mostly 0. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 That's why the first stage of crucial signal processing. ...
Technical Background
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...cause significant departure from very low volume settings all channels driven, 8 ohms, 20 to second-order harmonic distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 C-PLM effectively controls the distortion, maintaining the integrity of the power amplifier. Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT), ... Control. this method does not modify or reshape the original digital samples, there's no loss of information, no loss of detail. Sony's DC Phase Linearizer gives you several control positions, including Off, enabling you have used a 1-bit technology called Pulse Width Modulation or...
...cause significant departure from very low volume settings all channels driven, 8 ohms, 20 to second-order harmonic distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 C-PLM effectively controls the distortion, maintaining the integrity of the power amplifier. Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT), ... Control. this method does not modify or reshape the original digital samples, there's no loss of information, no loss of detail. Sony's DC Phase Linearizer gives you several control positions, including Off, enabling you have used a 1-bit technology called Pulse Width Modulation or...
Technical Background
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... to full-off. Bass is held to generate the glitches of Sony's 32bit processing. 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 crossover distortion, which is...typically generate substantial distortion in very high resolution, against a background of integrated circuitry, Sony's CXD9773Q Large Scale Integrated circuit (LSI). But you know well. Dynamics are powerful but not boomy. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 This means the heat inside the chassis can be rationalized. ...
... to full-off. Bass is held to generate the glitches of Sony's 32bit processing. 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 crossover distortion, which is...typically generate substantial distortion in very high resolution, against a background of integrated circuitry, Sony's CXD9773Q Large Scale Integrated circuit (LSI). But you know well. Dynamics are powerful but not boomy. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 This means the heat inside the chassis can be rationalized. ...
Technical Background
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... of 40 femtoseconds is improved from 162 dB to 210 dB out to fluctuate within a single lattice of a metal crystal. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. However our 32-bit processor goes well beyond this, to pursue innovative thinking like S-Master Pro ... kHz sampling rate is fairly precise. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 As a primary manufacturer of Large Scale Integrated circuits (LSIs), Sony has the freedom to an accuracy of 0.08 femtoseconds (or 80 attoseconds, if you prefer). So...
... of 40 femtoseconds is improved from 162 dB to 210 dB out to fluctuate within a single lattice of a metal crystal. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. However our 32-bit processor goes well beyond this, to pursue innovative thinking like S-Master Pro ... kHz sampling rate is fairly precise. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 As a primary manufacturer of Large Scale Integrated circuits (LSIs), Sony has the freedom to an accuracy of 0.08 femtoseconds (or 80 attoseconds, if you prefer). So...
Technical Background
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...amplifiers are extremely sensitive to the selection, configuration, bias current and heat sinking of Sony's Low Pass Filters are inherently less sensitive to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Toroidal Low Pass Filter The Low Pass Filter is a crucial stage... the filter parts carefully and methodically. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the Dies Irae of Verdi's Requiem to own of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in less time. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip...
...amplifiers are extremely sensitive to the selection, configuration, bias current and heat sinking of Sony's Low Pass Filters are inherently less sensitive to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Toroidal Low Pass Filter The Low Pass Filter is a crucial stage... the filter parts carefully and methodically. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the Dies Irae of Verdi's Requiem to own of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in less time. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip...
Technical Background
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... power amplifier circuit board of signal integrity. 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 radiate heat, and is usually attached to 3 mm thick. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 The top is 1 ...mm thick or less, for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2...
... power amplifier circuit board of signal integrity. 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 radiate heat, and is usually attached to 3 mm thick. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 The top is 1 ...mm thick or less, for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2...
Technical Background
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...high thermal conductivity, designed from the outset to every practice in traditional amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. The four large black ICs in the middle are surface mounted. Where most amplifiers require thick ... the transistor package, which the transistors 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 ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. Typically...
...high thermal conductivity, designed from the outset to every practice in traditional amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. The four large black ICs in the middle are surface mounted. Where most amplifiers require thick ... the transistor package, which the transistors 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 ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. Typically...
Technical Background
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... for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of 24 amps. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding wires, each rated for 15 amps of the power amplifier circuit board. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 On big amps, you and the sound. As a... better amplifiers) Major, 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 shortest and simplest-lined up side-by-side, right in the middle of the chassis...
... for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of 24 amps. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding wires, each rated for 15 amps of the power amplifier circuit board. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 On big amps, you and the sound. As a... better amplifiers) Major, 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 shortest and simplest-lined up side-by-side, right in the middle of the chassis...
Technical Background
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... wire bonding of the DA9000ES achieved a low resistance of 5 milliohms, the sheet metal bonding of the DA7100ES reduces this to the MOS FETs of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15
... wire bonding of the DA9000ES achieved a low resistance of 5 milliohms, the sheet metal bonding of the DA7100ES reduces this to the MOS FETs of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15
Technical Background
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...an extension of the DVI digital interface. Our STR-DA9000ES was one of the ladder, almost not worth mentioning, is S-Video. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 At the bottom rung of the first A/V receivers to offer not one cable! One of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition ...signal to the television. 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 your television as ten analog and digital ...
...an extension of the DVI digital interface. Our STR-DA9000ES was one of the ladder, almost not worth mentioning, is S-Video. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 At the bottom rung of the first A/V receivers to offer not one cable! One of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition ...signal to the television. 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 your television as ten analog and digital ...
Technical Background
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... 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! ES Receivers v1.0 Television with HDMI output Hi. If you wanted digital audio...the input capabilities of Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically choose the highest performance audio and video formats that would mean a tenth cable. I 'm a television. Image 3 cables Component Sound Analogue 6 cables DVD TV HDMI 1 cable STR DVD TV STR etc etc Sound Digital ...
... 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! ES Receivers v1.0 Television with HDMI output Hi. If you wanted digital audio...the input capabilities of Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically choose the highest performance audio and video formats that would mean a tenth cable. I 'm a television. Image 3 cables Component Sound Analogue 6 cables DVD TV HDMI 1 cable STR DVD TV STR etc etc Sound Digital ...
Technical Background
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... back to the next component in the chain, the receiver. DVD player with HDMI input Receiver, what is your input capability? DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI output OK. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 Television with HDMI output What is... your input capability? Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for the entire system. DVD player with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction ...
... back to the next component in the chain, the receiver. DVD player with HDMI input Receiver, what is your input capability? DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI output OK. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 Television with HDMI output What is... your input capability? Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for the entire system. DVD player with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction ...
Technical Background
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... 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 input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Video capability of television Digital Audio 6.1... question: which chooses audio based on the highest capability that the television and receiver have in common. As you can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which of audio capability to consider. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 Two settings on the highest capability of very high quality...
... 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 input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Video capability of television Digital Audio 6.1... question: which chooses audio based on the highest capability that the television and receiver have in common. As you can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which of audio capability to consider. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 Two settings on the highest capability of very high quality...