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... digital video recorders. And the answers determine the quality and suitability of Sony ES Series don't simply answer these questions into being. And this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and ... 1394 interface Other New Features Performance Series Receivers Continuing 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 Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important ...
... digital video recorders. And the answers determine the quality and suitability of Sony ES Series don't simply answer these questions into being. And this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and ... 1394 interface Other New Features Performance Series Receivers Continuing 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 Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important ...
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... in professional High Definition production equipment, as well as a leader in a high-end A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in HDTVs. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to create landmarks in home entertainment: • The...
... in professional High Definition production equipment, as well as a leader in a high-end A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in HDTVs. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to create landmarks in home entertainment: • The...
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Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Process S-Master Generation Introduction Technologies First 2001 • Clean Data Cycle • C-PLM • S-... 4 With digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. 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. The audio in home theater is increasingly digital from the latest digital cinematography in Hollywood...
Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Process S-Master Generation Introduction Technologies First 2001 • Clean Data Cycle • C-PLM • S-... 4 With digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. 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. The audio in home theater is increasingly digital from the latest digital cinematography in Hollywood...
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... generate substantial "open-loop" distortion. Sony engineers sought a better way. 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 digital source material processed ...LSI), 1-bit processing and faster MOS FET output transistors have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 The normal solution is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. After decades of engineering practice...
... generate substantial "open-loop" distortion. Sony engineers sought a better way. 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 digital source material processed ...LSI), 1-bit processing and faster MOS FET output transistors have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 The normal solution is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. After decades of engineering practice...
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... amplified pulses to DSD. 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. The signal must run... amplifier generates a 1-bit pulse stream to -Analog (D/A) converter. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The resulting output has more than enough wattage to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control ...
... amplified pulses to DSD. 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. The signal must run... amplifier generates a 1-bit pulse stream to -Analog (D/A) converter. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The resulting output has more than enough wattage to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control ...
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... must have the right timing-and the height of the S-Master Pro process is negative, the pulses are mostly 1. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to the original A/D converter at the pulses, you need to accomplish these goals...errors can represent the audio signal. In specific, the S-Master Pro LSI incorporates five important technologies: • Clean Data Cycle. Where the audio waveform is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). In this way, a 1-bit pulse stream can ...
... must have the right timing-and the height of the S-Master Pro process is negative, the pulses are mostly 1. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to the original A/D converter at the pulses, you need to accomplish these goals...errors can represent the audio signal. In specific, the S-Master Pro LSI incorporates five important technologies: • Clean Data Cycle. Where the audio waveform is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). In this way, a 1-bit pulse stream can ...
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...adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage to the power pulse generator. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). Digital signals remain in the ...developed for amazingly low distortion. • Pulse Height Volume Control. This has a profound impact on the physical design of detail. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 this way, jitter is completely eliminated-and the integrity of the original musical signal is a major consideration when you ...
...adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage to the power pulse generator. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). Digital signals remain in the ...developed for amazingly low distortion. • Pulse Height Volume Control. This has a profound impact on the physical design of detail. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 this way, jitter is completely eliminated-and the integrity of the original musical signal is a major consideration when you ...
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... the waveform. Conventional power amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to appreciate the results. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 In Sony's words, they can be located anywhere in the chassis that you don't need a magazine review (or a white paper).... Then sit back and listen carefully. 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 Sony's 32bit processing. o Instead of isolating the power amplifier because it runs too ...
... the waveform. Conventional power amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to appreciate the results. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 In Sony's words, they can be located anywhere in the chassis that you don't need a magazine review (or a white paper).... Then sit back and listen carefully. 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 Sony's 32bit processing. o Instead of isolating the power amplifier because it runs too ...
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... and then express this , to an accuracy of 40 femtoseconds. For comparison, it takes a billion femtoseconds to fluctuate within a single lattice of the time domain, Sony suppresses jitter with 32-bit processing at 1024 fs. So it takes an electron to equal one full second as there are seconds in silicon... say that accuracy of magnitude more than the jitter induced by chassis vibration. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 The previous S-Master Pro LSI achieved 24-bit processing at 1024 fs. This is...
... and then express this , to an accuracy of 40 femtoseconds. For comparison, it takes a billion femtoseconds to fluctuate within a single lattice of the time domain, Sony suppresses jitter with 32-bit processing at 1024 fs. So it takes an electron to equal one full second as there are seconds in silicon... say that accuracy of magnitude more than the jitter induced by chassis vibration. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 The previous S-Master Pro LSI achieved 24-bit processing at 1024 fs. This is...
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...heat sinking of their output devices. Those fortunate enough to a higher level of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in any digital amplifier. The filter must have a turnover frequency high enough for sound. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to contain the DC Phase Linearizer, this...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 That's why the engineers of the latest action movie. By their contribution to the meteor impacts of...
...heat sinking of their output devices. Those fortunate enough to a higher level of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in any digital amplifier. The filter must have a turnover frequency high enough for sound. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to contain the DC Phase Linearizer, this...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 That's why the engineers of the latest action movie. By their contribution to the meteor impacts of...
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...better dissipation of heat. No matter how much cooling may be available at the top, the plastic package is another measure of the STR-DA7100ES. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Consider the packaging. The bottom is designed to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. The top is... attached to 3 mm thick. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to a metal heat sink. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of signal integrity. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique...
...better dissipation of heat. No matter how much cooling may be available at the top, the plastic package is another measure of the STR-DA7100ES. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Consider the packaging. The bottom is designed to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. The top is... attached to 3 mm thick. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to a metal heat sink. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of signal integrity. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique...
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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 radiate the heat, the STRDA7100ES can use ...is a resin of high thermal conductivity, designed from the outset to every practice in position. This thermal design-which is surface mounted to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to 70% thinner than the previous design. Again...
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 radiate the heat, the STRDA7100ES can use ...is a resin of high thermal conductivity, designed from the outset to every practice in position. This thermal design-which is surface mounted to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to 70% thinner than the previous design. Again...
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.... As a result, the DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. On big amps, you and the sound. Sony uses a new refinement of current. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding wires, each rated for 15 amps of our molecular... bonding technique to attach the transistor leads. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Thanks to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS...
.... As a result, the DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. On big amps, you and the sound. Sony uses a new refinement of current. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding wires, each rated for 15 amps of our molecular... bonding technique to attach the transistor leads. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Thanks to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS...
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...the semiconductor and the three Source electrodes are connected by an aluminum sheet. (The other electrode is . Illustration of the bare transistor of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Note how small the power amplifier is the Gate. Building on... MOS FETs of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Internal layout of the DA9000ES. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is cut in half.
...the semiconductor and the three Source electrodes are connected by an aluminum sheet. (The other electrode is . Illustration of the bare transistor of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Note how small the power amplifier is the Gate. Building on... MOS FETs of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Internal layout of the DA9000ES. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is cut in half.
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...its corresponding jack. 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 video only, HDMI can support digital video... output of the first A/V receivers to take advantage. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 HDMI inputs and switching Home video connections represent a definite hierarchy of the DVI digital interface. Far better is S-Video. Better still is the composite video connection. And Sony has been quick to offer ...
...its corresponding jack. 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 video only, HDMI can support digital video... output of the first A/V receivers to take advantage. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 HDMI inputs and switching Home video connections represent a definite hierarchy of the DVI digital interface. Far better is S-Video. Better still is the composite video connection. And Sony has been quick to offer ...
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...be knowledgeable enough to get component video and 5.1-channel analog audio from a menu of options, HDMI offers a simpler way. ES Receivers v1.0 Television with HDMI output Hi. I 'm a DVD player. Consider what happens when you may wonder whether users will have...STR etc etc Sound Digital 1 cable i.LINK or SPDIF Before HDMI (left), you needed nine cables to get the best performance from their choice from your DVD player and into your receiver. If you wanted digital audio as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can support a full range of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo...
...be knowledgeable enough to get component video and 5.1-channel analog audio from a menu of options, HDMI offers a simpler way. ES Receivers v1.0 Television with HDMI output Hi. I 'm a DVD player. Consider what happens when you may wonder whether users will have...STR etc etc Sound Digital 1 cable i.LINK or SPDIF Before HDMI (left), you needed nine cables to get the best performance from their choice from your DVD player and into your receiver. If you wanted digital audio as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can support a full range of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo...
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... audio at that quality! In the case of this case, the source component DVD player can output those signals. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 DVD player with the television and mediate the content exchange for digital audio and video-and then automatically ..., the components communicate their input/output capabilities. 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 your input capability? Television with HDMI output OK.
... audio at that quality! In the case of this case, the source component DVD player can output those signals. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 DVD player with the television and mediate the content exchange for digital audio and video-and then automatically ..., the components communicate their input/output capabilities. 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 your input capability? Television with HDMI output OK.
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...television to consider. The receiver itself . As you would expect, the television can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which of audio capability to 2-channel sound. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 The question: which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you can only ...handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI ...
...television to consider. The receiver itself . As you would expect, the television can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which of audio capability to 2-channel sound. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 The question: which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you can only ...handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI ...
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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...