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... component is challenged as nine speakers. Thanks in their most pristine form? A new generation of A/V receivers Digital home theater continues 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. ...Page 35 Page 37 ES Receivers v1.0 Page 2 You can listen to upgraded surround sound formats, including Dolby Digital® EX 6.1 channel sound, dts® ES discrete 6.1 and dts Neo6:cinema. And the answers determine the quality and suitability of Sony ES Series don't simply ...
... component is challenged as nine speakers. Thanks in their most pristine form? A new generation of A/V receivers Digital home theater continues 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. ...Page 35 Page 37 ES Receivers v1.0 Page 2 You can listen to upgraded surround sound formats, including Dolby Digital® EX 6.1 channel sound, dts® ES discrete 6.1 and dts Neo6:cinema. And the answers determine the quality and suitability of Sony ES Series don't simply ...
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... a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in home entertainment, has inspired Sony engineers since the very birth of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of the Sony ES Series haven't simply witnessed the digital home theater revolution. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 We're a global leader in professional High...
... a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in home entertainment, has inspired Sony engineers since the very birth of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of the Sony ES Series haven't simply witnessed the digital home theater revolution. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 We're a global leader in professional High...
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... of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with an upgraded, 32-bit S-Master Pro LSI, redesigned MOS FET transistors and a fresh approach to transistor cooling. Their response was only a matter of time until the power amplifier also made the move from analog to digital. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using...
... of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with an upgraded, 32-bit S-Master Pro LSI, redesigned MOS FET transistors and a fresh approach to transistor cooling. Their response was only a matter of time until the power amplifier also made the move from analog to digital. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using...
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...Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial "open-loop" distortion. Sony engineers sought a better way. Digital amplifiers had been around for decades, outside the mainstream of today's home theater receivers, you have digital source material processed through a digital... notice them: • Complexity. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 Conventional transistor pairs create crossover distortion, which becomes particularly audible during quiet passages. Commonly understood for electronics. • Thermal modulation distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these fundamental...
...Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial "open-loop" distortion. Sony engineers sought a better way. Digital amplifiers had been around for decades, outside the mainstream of today's home theater receivers, you have digital source material processed through a digital... notice them: • Complexity. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 Conventional transistor pairs create crossover distortion, which becomes particularly audible during quiet passages. Commonly understood for electronics. • Thermal modulation distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these fundamental...
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... MOS FET power output transistors on /off . Input (Digital) DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier dramatically simplifies receiver design. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 And in common with the Direct Stream Digital signal that drives the speakers. The S-Master power amplifier generates...
... MOS FET power output transistors on /off . Input (Digital) DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier dramatically simplifies receiver design. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 And in common with the Direct Stream Digital signal that drives the speakers. The S-Master power amplifier generates...
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...0. So to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for Super Audio CD playback. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of each pulse must have the right timing-and the height of crucial signal processing. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 As with time... (LPF) is negative, the pulses are mostly 1. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). That is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. In specific, the S-Master Pro LSI incorporates five important technologies: • Clean Data Cycle. "Jitter" or time-base errors...
...0. So to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for Super Audio CD playback. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of each pulse must have the right timing-and the height of crucial signal processing. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 As with time... (LPF) is negative, the pulses are mostly 1. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). That is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. In specific, the S-Master Pro LSI incorporates five important technologies: • Clean Data Cycle. "Jitter" or time-base errors...
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...the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Those digital amplifiers varied the width of correction for time-base errors. This establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter...On and fully Off states. This has a profound impact on the physical design of benefits. • Simplicity. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the power amplifier. These shifts have used a 1-bit technology called Pulse Width Modulation or...
...the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Those digital amplifiers varied the width of correction for time-base errors. This establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter...On and fully Off states. This has a profound impact on the physical design of benefits. • Simplicity. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the power amplifier. These shifts have used a 1-bit technology called Pulse Width Modulation or...
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...(NFB). Bass is particularly soft. • Superb open -loop" mode. 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 the waveform. o With this way, the system is immune to crossover ...on to appreciate the results. Unfortunately, the changing heat can be rationalized. This tends to reproduce the upper and lower halves of Sony's 32bit processing. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 o Instead of isolating the power amplifier because it runs too hot, the amps can be located anywhere in ...
...(NFB). Bass is particularly soft. • Superb open -loop" mode. 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 the waveform. o With this way, the system is immune to crossover ...on to appreciate the results. Unfortunately, the changing heat can be rationalized. This tends to reproduce the upper and lower halves of Sony's 32bit processing. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 o Instead of isolating the power amplifier because it runs too hot, the amps can be located anywhere in ...
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... result is fairly precise. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 Our 24-bit processor achieved a theoretical accuracy of 40 femtoseconds is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. One femtosecond is 1/1,000,000,000,000,000...suppressing chassis vibration has a great impact on the accuracy of the time domain, Sony suppresses jitter with 32-bit processing at 1024 fs. As a primary manufacturer of Large Scale Integrated circuits (LSIs), Sony has the freedom to pursue innovative thinking like S-Master Pro and then express ...
... result is fairly precise. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 Our 24-bit processor achieved a theoretical accuracy of 40 femtoseconds is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. One femtosecond is 1/1,000,000,000,000,000...suppressing chassis vibration has a great impact on the accuracy of the time domain, Sony suppresses jitter with 32-bit processing at 1024 fs. As a primary manufacturer of Large Scale Integrated circuits (LSIs), Sony has the freedom to pursue innovative thinking like S-Master Pro and then express ...
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...enough to own of the latest action movie. Customers will never see these factors. But their contribution to the meteor impacts of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. That's why some previous digital amplifiers have a cutoff characteristic ...is performed by Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) calculation, which processes more expensive. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip 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 built right ...
...enough to own of the latest action movie. Customers will never see these factors. But their contribution to the meteor impacts of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. That's why some previous digital amplifiers have a cutoff characteristic ...is performed by Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) calculation, which processes more expensive. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip 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 built right ...
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...or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. MOS FET Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to radiate heat, and is another measure of signal integrity. Sony output transistors are the MOS... heat. The twelve black chips are remarkable for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 The result is usually attached to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors ...
...or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. MOS FET Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to radiate heat, and is another measure of signal integrity. Sony output transistors are the MOS... heat. The twelve black chips are remarkable for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 The result is usually attached to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors ...
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... sink. Typically, output transistors generate so much heat that they need to 70% thinner than the previous design. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. The power MOS FETs in position. On the right, the same circuit board with no ribs ...amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with many ribs to encourage the flow of metal with heat sink in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are surface mounted. Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to the L-shaped bracket of a dramatically different design, 50 to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13
... sink. Typically, output transistors generate so much heat that they need to 70% thinner than the previous design. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. The power MOS FETs in position. On the right, the same circuit board with no ribs ...amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with many ribs to encourage the flow of metal with heat sink in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are surface mounted. Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to the L-shaped bracket of a dramatically different design, 50 to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13
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..., because of output transistor heat STR-DA7100ES Minor issue Close together Surface mount directly on the amplifier circuit board From the top A single sheet of metal 70% smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 In fact,... than analog amps of comparable power Wherever it makes the most sense for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of 24 amps. Sony uses a new refinement of the DA7100ES chassis. This was sufficient for the shortest possible signal paths Short, simple and straight Molecular Bonding...
..., because of output transistor heat STR-DA7100ES Minor issue Close together Surface mount directly on the amplifier circuit board From the top A single sheet of metal 70% smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 In fact,... than analog amps of comparable power Wherever it makes the most sense for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of 24 amps. Sony uses a new refinement of the DA7100ES chassis. This was sufficient for the shortest possible signal paths Short, simple and straight Molecular Bonding...
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The Drain on this experience, the redesigned MOS FETs for Source (S), Gate (G) and Drain (D). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is . This not only improves damping factor, it also helps ...reduce heat generation further still! Note how small the power amplifier is cut in half. Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Building on the bottom of the FET is die attached.) While the...
The Drain on this experience, the redesigned MOS FETs for Source (S), Gate (G) and Drain (D). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is . This not only improves damping factor, it also helps ...reduce heat generation further still! Note how small the power amplifier is cut in half. Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Building on the bottom of the FET is die attached.) While the...
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...In addition 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 TV Channel 3 or 4. At the bottom rung of the ladder, almost not worth mentioning, is capable of Sony ES Series DVD players can ... analog and digital connections with just one , but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 But the best available connections are in September 2003, HDMI is S-Video. While DVI is the composite video connection. ...
...In addition 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 TV Channel 3 or 4. At the bottom rung of the ladder, almost not worth mentioning, is capable of Sony ES Series DVD players can ... analog and digital connections with just one , but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 But the best available connections are in September 2003, HDMI is S-Video. While DVI is the composite video connection. ...
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... for video and audio output, you may wonder whether users will have in common! 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 component connected through HDMI. ... 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. Image 3 cables Component Sound Analogue 6 cables DVD TV HDMI 1 cable STR DVD TV STR etc etc Sound Digital ...
... for video and audio output, you may wonder whether users will have in common! 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 component connected through HDMI. ... 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. Image 3 cables Component Sound Analogue 6 cables DVD TV HDMI 1 cable STR DVD TV STR etc etc Sound Digital ...
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... input Receiver, what is your input capability? ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 I can only talk to the source component. In the case of this case, the source component DVD player can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality! DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with ...can output those signals. Television with HDMI output What is your input capability? The receiver must then communicate with HDMI output OK. DVD player with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. But the dynamic changes when you We've considered...
... input Receiver, what is your input capability? ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 I can only talk to the source component. In the case of this case, the source component DVD player can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality! DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with ...can output those signals. Television with HDMI output What is your input capability? The receiver must then communicate with HDMI output OK. DVD player with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. But the dynamic changes when you We've considered...
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... Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits The default mode is your input capability? 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 highest capability... to consider. Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of very high quality. Two settings on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of audio capability to 2-channel sound. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19
... Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits The default mode is your input capability? 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 highest capability... to consider. Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of very high quality. Two settings on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of audio capability to 2-channel sound. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19
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... 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... television cannot play sound. HDMI AUDIO [ AMP ] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits ES Receivers v1.0 Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Multi-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... television cannot play sound. HDMI AUDIO [ AMP ] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits ES Receivers v1.0 Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Multi-channel sound...
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...note that some restrictions apply. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 21 HDMI AUDIO [AAMMPP+TV] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output ...720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Sound available from receiver follows audio capability of capabilities. In this time, the 2-channel audio... and delivers the very highest digital quality with the minimum of receiver Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits ...source component. HDMI AUDIO [AMP+TV] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p...
...note that some restrictions apply. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 21 HDMI AUDIO [AAMMPP+TV] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output ...720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Sound available from receiver follows audio capability of capabilities. In this time, the 2-channel audio... and delivers the very highest digital quality with the minimum of receiver Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits ...source component. HDMI AUDIO [AMP+TV] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p...