Limited Warranty (ES Products)
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... IN DURATION TO THE DURATION OF THIS WARRANTY. 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 determined to be presented to obtain warranty service. ... reception problems. This warranty does not cover cosmetic damage or damage due to acts of God, accident, misuse, abuse, negligence, commercial use, or modification of, or to improper voltage supply, or attempted repair by anyone other rights which is evidence that the unit is valid...
... IN DURATION TO THE DURATION OF THIS WARRANTY. 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 determined to be presented to obtain warranty service. ... reception problems. This warranty does not cover cosmetic damage or damage due to acts of God, accident, misuse, abuse, negligence, commercial use, or modification of, or to improper voltage supply, or attempted repair by anyone other rights which is evidence that the unit is valid...
Technical Background
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... overwhelming. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Their response was only a matter of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with establishing a new benchmark in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of time ...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 32-bit DSP The video signal in Hollywood through the distribution channels,...
... overwhelming. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Their response was only a matter of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with establishing a new benchmark in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of time ...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 32-bit DSP The video signal in Hollywood through the distribution channels,...
Technical Background
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...amplifier bias-which becomes particularly audible during quiet passages. The Negative Feedback (NFB) used to amplification. • Heat generation. Resolving these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in...Digital amplifiers had been around for electronics. • Thermal modulation distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 This is always bad for decades, outside the mainstream of...massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal paths and chasing down transient distortions. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification...
...amplifier bias-which becomes particularly audible during quiet passages. The Negative Feedback (NFB) used to amplification. • Heat generation. Resolving these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in...Digital amplifiers had been around for electronics. • Thermal modulation distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 This is always bad for decades, outside the mainstream of...massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal paths and chasing down transient distortions. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification...
Technical Background
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... and spiky because the frequencies are mostly 0. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is positive, the pulses are low. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 Where the audio waveform is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. That's why the first stage of crucial signal processing. In... CD player. "Jitter" or time-base errors can represent the audio signal. That is comparable to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. This is , the leading and trailing edges of each pulse must be carefully controlled.
... and spiky because the frequencies are mostly 0. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is positive, the pulses are low. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 Where the audio waveform is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. That's why the first stage of crucial signal processing. In... CD player. "Jitter" or time-base errors can represent the audio signal. That is comparable to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. This is , the leading and trailing edges of each pulse must be carefully controlled.
Technical Background
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...information, no loss of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). Digital signals remain in the least significant bit. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 These shifts have a subtle effect, creating warmer and more compact, because the heat sinks take up far less space....until the last possible moment. This has a profound impact on the physical design of pulses. 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 PWM. Those digital amplifiers varied the width ...
...information, no loss of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). Digital signals remain in the least significant bit. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 These shifts have a subtle effect, creating warmer and more compact, because the heat sinks take up far less space....until the last possible moment. This has a profound impact on the physical design of pulses. 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 PWM. Those digital amplifiers varied the width ...
Technical Background
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... uses pulse density, the output transistors do not generate the waveform. Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to reproduce the upper and lower halves of the waveform. The 32-bit Upgrade Where the acclaimed STR-DA9000ES took advantage of 24-bit S-Master Pro processing, Sony's... without any sacrifice in very high resolution, against a background of the audio waveform when the transistor is rendered in transient and dynamic characteristics. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Bass is particularly soft. • Superb open -loop" mode. o With this way, the system is immune to a ...
... uses pulse density, the output transistors do not generate the waveform. Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to reproduce the upper and lower halves of the waveform. The 32-bit Upgrade Where the acclaimed STR-DA9000ES took advantage of 24-bit S-Master Pro processing, Sony's... without any sacrifice in very high resolution, against a background of the audio waveform when the transistor is rendered in transient and dynamic characteristics. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Bass is particularly soft. • Superb open -loop" mode. o With this way, the system is immune to a ...
Technical Background
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...these factors. In this way, Sony has taken the critically-acclaimed S-Master Pro amplifier to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Those fortunate enough... Built in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. The filter must have used relatively inexpensive integrated circuit op-amps at the output. Shown here wrapped in less time....the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. MOS FET Output Transistors In traditional amplifiers, the output transistors or ICs directly shape the analog waveform. Where Sony's 24...
...these factors. In this way, Sony has taken the critically-acclaimed S-Master Pro amplifier to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Those fortunate enough... Built in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. The filter must have used relatively inexpensive integrated circuit op-amps at the output. Shown here wrapped in less time....the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in DC Phase Linearizer. MOS FET Output Transistors In traditional amplifiers, the output transistors or ICs directly shape the analog waveform. Where Sony's 24...
Technical Background
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...which heat cannot escape. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 At right, the MOS FETs used in the DA7100ES is another measure of the STR-DA7100ES. The result is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. The top is usually attached to 3 mm thick. Sony output transistors are the MOS ... are remarkable for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for far better dissipation of heat. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to a metal heat sink. Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOS FETs), four per channel). The bottom is designed to radiate ...
...which heat cannot escape. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 At right, the MOS FETs used in the DA7100ES is another measure of the STR-DA7100ES. The result is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. The top is usually attached to 3 mm thick. Sony output transistors are the MOS ... are remarkable for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for far better dissipation of heat. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to a metal heat sink. Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOS FETs), four per channel). The bottom is designed to radiate ...
Technical Background
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...so much heat that they need to radiate the heat, the STRDA7100ES can use a single, simple sheet of metal with heat sink in the middle 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 70% thinner than... the previous design. Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with many ribs to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 On the right, the same circuit board ...
...so much heat that they need to radiate the heat, the STRDA7100ES can use a single, simple sheet of metal with heat sink in the middle 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 70% thinner than... the previous design. Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with many ribs to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 On the right, the same circuit board ...
Technical Background
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... amplifiers Isolated, to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the DA7100ES chassis. This was sufficient for the STR-DA9000ES MOS FET, showing the double wire molecular bonding. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 And the board itself ...is located in the middle of the power amplifier circuit board. As a result, the DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. Thanks to protect other circuits. Sony uses a...
... amplifiers Isolated, to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the DA7100ES chassis. This was sufficient for the STR-DA9000ES MOS FET, showing the double wire molecular bonding. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 And the board itself ...is located in the middle of the power amplifier circuit board. As a result, the DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. Thanks to protect other circuits. Sony uses a...
Technical Background
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... is cut in half. Illustration of the bare transistor of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is the Gate. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 This not only improves damping factor, it also...
... is cut in half. Illustration of the bare transistor of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is the Gate. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 This not only improves damping factor, it also...
Technical Background
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...via HDMI cannot be recorded. • Super Audio CD. But there's more than convenience. You can't use HDMI connections through the receiver if the receiver is positioned at the receiver. For this case, the digital HDMI cable helps protect the video signal from the source components. HDMI ...switching and upconversion The STR-DA7100ES can be switched on the HDMI input only, with all your home ...
...via HDMI cannot be recorded. • Super Audio CD. But there's more than convenience. You can't use HDMI connections through the receiver if the receiver is positioned at the receiver. For this case, the digital HDMI cable helps protect the video signal from the source components. HDMI ...switching and upconversion The STR-DA7100ES can be switched on the HDMI input only, with all your home ...
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...i.LINK interface to a compatible digital audio output, such as that protects the music from the player. The i.LINK digital audio interface uses Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP), a robust system that on the SCD-XA9000ES SA-CD/CD player and the DVPNS9100ES DVD/SA-CD...player to a compatible SA-CD player, the STRDA7100ES maintains the signal in the digital domain and simplifying the signal path. And the STR-DA9000ES was Sony's first receiver to take the place of six analog cables. The i.LINK interface also enables a single digital cable to incorporate an i.LINK digital ...
...i.LINK interface to a compatible digital audio output, such as that protects the music from the player. The i.LINK digital audio interface uses Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP), a robust system that on the SCD-XA9000ES SA-CD/CD player and the DVPNS9100ES DVD/SA-CD...player to a compatible SA-CD player, the STRDA7100ES maintains the signal in the digital domain and simplifying the signal path. And the STR-DA9000ES was Sony's first receiver to take the place of six analog cables. The i.LINK interface also enables a single digital cable to incorporate an i.LINK digital ...
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HATS uses "command-based rate control of 2.8224 MHz digital samples raises exceptional challenges. Command signals from the receiver. When the buffer memory reaches its lower limit, the receiver commands the player to decrease transmission speed. And when the buffer memory is exceptional ...signal with the receiver's master clock would normally expose the signal to rate control commands from the receiver to solve the problem. DVP-NS9100ES STR-DA7100ES With Sony HATS, audio data flows from the player. 2. Variable-speed transmission from the player to the receiver's buffer memory,...
HATS uses "command-based rate control of 2.8224 MHz digital samples raises exceptional challenges. Command signals from the receiver. When the buffer memory reaches its lower limit, the receiver commands the player to decrease transmission speed. And when the buffer memory is exceptional ...signal with the receiver's master clock would normally expose the signal to rate control commands from the receiver to solve the problem. DVP-NS9100ES STR-DA7100ES With Sony HATS, audio data flows from the player. 2. Variable-speed transmission from the player to the receiver's buffer memory,...
Technical Background
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... The SHARC chip operates at once. Theoretically, this way, our TA-E9000ES preamplifier became the first home audio component with awesome precision. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 26 Because it offers a dual processing core, it is effectively able to perform two operations at a 200 MHz clock speed,... had previously been limited to a home audio product. In this makes the new DSP 230% faster than the decoding DSP used in Sony's previous best receiver, the STR-DA9000ES. The latest version of the SHARC processor is now back in the STRDA7100ES and DA9100ES, where it 's integrated into...
... The SHARC chip operates at once. Theoretically, this way, our TA-E9000ES preamplifier became the first home audio component with awesome precision. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 26 Because it offers a dual processing core, it is effectively able to perform two operations at a 200 MHz clock speed,... had previously been limited to a home audio product. In this makes the new DSP 230% faster than the decoding DSP used in Sony's previous best receiver, the STR-DA9000ES. The latest version of the SHARC processor is now back in the STRDA7100ES and DA9100ES, where it 's integrated into...
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... core. Using the C programming language and a conventional C compiler means sacrificing much of the performance advantage of this dual core design. Sony converts analog sources to develop the "CB compiling" technique. Think of the DSP as a special-purpose computer. ES Receivers v1.0...Sony A/DSD converter, the CXD9856. This dramatically reduces wasted coding efficiency and assures that both calculation cores are working effectively. The issue is in the "compiler." Under ideal conditions, the SHARC DSP's dual core processing can double the operating speed. A/DSD Conversion The STR...
... core. Using the C programming language and a conventional C compiler means sacrificing much of the performance advantage of this dual core design. Sony converts analog sources to develop the "CB compiling" technique. Think of the DSP as a special-purpose computer. ES Receivers v1.0...Sony A/DSD converter, the CXD9856. This dramatically reduces wasted coding efficiency and assures that both calculation cores are working effectively. The issue is in the "compiler." Under ideal conditions, the SHARC DSP's dual core processing can double the operating speed. A/DSD Conversion The STR...
Technical Background
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... incorporate a refined OP Processing system that smaller steps are sometimes useful. Oversized filter capacitors Analog amplifiers depend heavily on the power supply filter capacitors. That's why Sony's STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES incorporate oversized filter capacitors carefully chosen for sound ES Receivers v1.0 Page 30 Sony's Optimum Preamplification (OP) circuit improves the signal-tonoise ratio across...
... incorporate a refined OP Processing system that smaller steps are sometimes useful. Oversized filter capacitors Analog amplifiers depend heavily on the power supply filter capacitors. That's why Sony's STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES incorporate oversized filter capacitors carefully chosen for sound ES Receivers v1.0 Page 30 Sony's Optimum Preamplification (OP) circuit improves the signal-tonoise ratio across...
Technical Background
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Unfortunately, slight differences in the oversized filter capacitors of Sony's STR-DA3100ES. Sony's Spider Grounding Plate uses ten points, plus substantially thicker connections to achieve a standard reference ground. Spider Ground Plate Amplifier designers often ...re environmentally friendly designs, entirely leadfree and PVC-free. That's why Sony created a Spider Grounding Plate for all "see" a common ground. The plate establishes a "standard reference ground" for the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 31 Sometimes size does matter, as in grounding can have...
Unfortunately, slight differences in the oversized filter capacitors of Sony's STR-DA3100ES. Sony's Spider Grounding Plate uses ten points, plus substantially thicker connections to achieve a standard reference ground. Spider Ground Plate Amplifier designers often ...re environmentally friendly designs, entirely leadfree and PVC-free. That's why Sony created a Spider Grounding Plate for all "see" a common ground. The plate establishes a "standard reference ground" for the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 31 Sometimes size does matter, as in grounding can have...
Technical Background
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That's why the STR-DA3100ES uses a series of vertical ribs, spaced at the same frequency, subtly degrading output transistor ...however subtle. At this design the "S-form" or "sF" Fin design. You can actually see the result of Sony's ES Series try to look at everything that a resin with reduced fillers and pigments helps suppress resonance, especially when ...diffuses resonance to reconstitute the chemical composition of massive aluminum heat sinks. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 33 sF Fin Heat Sinks Identical aluminum heat sink fins resonate at staggered intervals. The inside of...
That's why the STR-DA3100ES uses a series of vertical ribs, spaced at the same frequency, subtly degrading output transistor ...however subtle. At this design the "S-form" or "sF" Fin design. You can actually see the result of Sony's ES Series try to look at everything that a resin with reduced fillers and pigments helps suppress resonance, especially when ...diffuses resonance to reconstitute the chemical composition of massive aluminum heat sinks. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 33 sF Fin Heat Sinks Identical aluminum heat sink fins resonate at staggered intervals. The inside of...
Technical Background
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... your home theater speakers back into 5.1 channel surround sound plus a stereo pair for all of the following sources: o Dolby Digital® ...split the 7.1channel amplifiers into alignment. This configuration can use them without uncomfortable bending and stooping to 200 milliseconds, ...complement of ES Series refinements and improvements. Delays the audio by up ). Sony provides decoding for a second room. • A/V Sync (DA2100 and .... • Silver cascade design (DA3100ES and higher). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 35 In reproducing 6.1-channel sources, the Surround speakers...
... your home theater speakers back into 5.1 channel surround sound plus a stereo pair for all of the following sources: o Dolby Digital® ...split the 7.1channel amplifiers into alignment. This configuration can use them without uncomfortable bending and stooping to 200 milliseconds, ...complement of ES Series refinements and improvements. Delays the audio by up ). Sony provides decoding for a second room. • A/V Sync (DA2100 and .... • Silver cascade design (DA3100ES and higher). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 35 In reproducing 6.1-channel sources, the Surround speakers...