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... audio and video in part 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. Digital Home Theater and Sony ES S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit processing and...switching and output. • i.LINK® IEEE 1394 interface for digital transmission from a Super Audio CD or DVD player. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in home theater design with three crucial advantages: • S-Master Pro digital amplifiers...
... audio and video in part 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. Digital Home Theater and Sony ES S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit processing and...switching and output. • i.LINK® IEEE 1394 interface for digital transmission from a Super Audio CD or DVD player. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in home theater design with three crucial advantages: • S-Master Pro digital amplifiers...
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... A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). We're a global leader in professional High Definition production equipment, as well as a leader in Japan, we marketed the world's first Blu-ray Disc™ High Definition recorder. We've launched consumer High Definition camcorders. Sony's latest A/V receivers are...
... A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). We're a global leader in professional High Definition production equipment, as well as a leader in Japan, we marketed the world's first Blu-ray Disc™ High Definition recorder. We've launched consumer High Definition camcorders. Sony's latest A/V receivers are...
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...a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with an upgraded, 32-bit S-Master... MOS FET transistors and a fresh approach to transistor cooling. Even so, some observers were surprised in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with 32-bit DSP The video signal in home theater is increasingly digital from analog to digital television display panels....
...a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with an upgraded, 32-bit S-Master... MOS FET transistors and a fresh approach to transistor cooling. Even so, some observers were surprised in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with 32-bit DSP The video signal in home theater is increasingly digital from analog to digital television display panels....
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... passages. Resolving these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in transistor performance! Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 Conventional power output transistors throw off much of home... temperature, which in turn cause changes in home audio design that most engineers don't even notice them: • Complexity. Sony engineers sought a better way. In the context of D/A conversion, Low Pass Filtering (LPF) and analog volume control prior ...
... passages. Resolving these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in transistor performance! Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 Conventional power output transistors throw off much of home... temperature, which in turn cause changes in home audio design that most engineers don't even notice them: • Complexity. Sony engineers sought a better way. In the context of D/A conversion, Low Pass Filtering (LPF) and analog volume control prior ...
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... DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The conventional A/V receiver is dramatically different. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is anything but simple. Even analog inputs are converted to a smooth, continuous analog...to -Analog (D/A) converter. 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 S-Master power amplifier generates a 1-bit pulse stream to drive a loudspeaker. There is better. The...
... DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The conventional A/V receiver is dramatically different. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is anything but simple. Even analog inputs are converted to a smooth, continuous analog...to -Analog (D/A) converter. 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 S-Master power amplifier generates a 1-bit pulse stream to drive a loudspeaker. There is better. The...
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...converter at the pulses, you need to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. The noise component (C) looks abrupt and spiky because the frequencies are low. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 The audio signal (B) looks smooth and..., the S-Master Pro LSI incorporates five important technologies: • Clean Data Cycle. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. In the diagram above, (A) represents the output power pulse stream. This combines two components, the ...
...converter at the pulses, you need to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. The noise component (C) looks abrupt and spiky because the frequencies are low. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 The audio signal (B) looks smooth and..., the S-Master Pro LSI incorporates five important technologies: • Clean Data Cycle. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. In the diagram above, (A) represents the output power pulse stream. This combines two components, the ...
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...the original musical signal is restored. • DC Phase Linearizer (DCPL). Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT), originally developed for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by referencing the output directly to maximum. Sound quality is ...completely eliminated-and the integrity of correction for amazingly low distortion. • Pulse Height Volume Control. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Sony's DC Phase Linearizer gives you several control positions, including Off, enabling you have used a 1-bit technology called Pulse ...
...the original musical signal is restored. • DC Phase Linearizer (DCPL). Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT), originally developed for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by referencing the output directly to maximum. Sound quality is ...completely eliminated-and the integrity of correction for amazingly low distortion. • Pulse Height Volume Control. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Sony's DC Phase Linearizer gives you several control positions, including Off, enabling you have used a 1-bit technology called Pulse ...
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... dynamic characteristics. 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 crossover distortion, which is particularly audible when the ...of the audio waveform when the transistor is held to a minimum. • No crossover distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial distortion in "open -loop performance. o With this...
... dynamic characteristics. 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 crossover distortion, which is particularly audible when the ...of the audio waveform when the transistor is held to a minimum. • No crossover distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial distortion in "open -loop performance. o With this...
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... kHz. Internal dynamic range at 1024 fs. Because one nanosecond. When Super Audio CD signals are seconds in silicon. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. Our 24-bit processor achieved a theoretical accuracy of 40 femtoseconds. The previous S-Master Pro... a billion femtoseconds to equal 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 pursue innovative thinking like S-Master Pro and then express this , to an...
... kHz. Internal dynamic range at 1024 fs. Because one nanosecond. When Super Audio CD signals are seconds in silicon. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. Our 24-bit processor achieved a theoretical accuracy of 40 femtoseconds. The previous S-Master Pro... a billion femtoseconds to equal 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 pursue innovative thinking like S-Master Pro and then express this , to an...
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...more than worth the price. Shown here wrapped in black, the toroidal coils of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in less time. By their contribution to own of Sony's Low Pass Filters are inherently less sensitive to suppress high-frequency noise elements. So they... steep enough to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to contain the DC Phase Linearizer, this way, Sony has taken the critically-acclaimed S-Master Pro amplifier to the meteor impacts of expression...
...more than worth the price. Shown here wrapped in black, the toroidal coils of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in less time. By their contribution to own of Sony's Low Pass Filters are inherently less sensitive to suppress high-frequency noise elements. So they... steep enough to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to contain the DC Phase Linearizer, this way, Sony has taken the critically-acclaimed S-Master Pro amplifier to the meteor impacts of expression...
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... integrity. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for the STR-DA7100ES. MOS FET Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides.... 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. ES Receivers v1.0...
... integrity. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for the STR-DA7100ES. MOS FET Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides.... 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. ES Receivers v1.0...
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... amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to 70% thinner than the previous design. Extreme close-up of... Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. On the right, the same circuit board with no ribs at all! The transistor is now ...
... amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to 70% thinner than the previous design. Extreme close-up of... Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. On the right, the same circuit board with no ribs at all! The transistor is now ...
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... binding wires had 30 amp capacity. And the board itself is located in the middle of current. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES amplifier section is some 70% smaller than analog amps of comparable power Wherever it makes the most sense..., far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! On big amps, you and the sound. Thanks to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at work. Sony uses a new refinement of the DA7100ES chassis. The bare transistor for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of the chassis. And nothing intrudes...
... binding wires had 30 amp capacity. And the board itself is located in the middle of current. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES amplifier section is some 70% smaller than analog amps of comparable power Wherever it makes the most sense..., far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! On big amps, you and the sound. Thanks to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at work. Sony uses a new refinement of the DA7100ES chassis. The bare transistor for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of the chassis. And nothing intrudes...
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ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is the Gate. In this design, the semiconductor and the ... further still! Illustration of the bare transistor of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Note how small the power amplifier is die attached.) While the double...
ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is the Gate. In this design, the semiconductor and the ... further still! Illustration of the bare transistor of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Note how small the power amplifier is die attached.) While the double...
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...or 4. Far better is S-Video. Established in September 2003, HDMI is limited to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 But the best available connections are in both RGB and Y/Cb/Cr form...supporting 480p and High Definition 720p and 1080i. At the bottom rung of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital video and digital audio via a single cable. And Sony has been quick to your television as ten analog and digital connections with...
...or 4. Far better is S-Video. Established in September 2003, HDMI is limited to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 But the best available connections are in both RGB and Y/Cb/Cr form...supporting 480p and High Definition 720p and 1080i. At the bottom rung of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital video and digital audio via a single cable. And Sony has been quick to your television as ten analog and digital connections with...
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... receiver). Is 720p better suited to automatically confirm the type of component connected through HDMI. In addition, a source component (such as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the input capabilities of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM..., you may wonder whether users will have in common! 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), you needed nine cables to an HDMI equipped television....
... receiver). Is 720p better suited to automatically confirm the type of component connected through HDMI. In addition, a source component (such as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the input capabilities of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM..., you may wonder whether users will have in common! 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), you needed nine cables to an HDMI equipped television....
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... quality! Television with HDMI input I can only talk to the source component. The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements back to the next component in the chain, the receiver. Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. Finally, the components agree on the highest available...
... quality! Television with HDMI input I can only talk to the source component. The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements back to the next component in the chain, the receiver. Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. Finally, the components agree on the highest available...
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...Video capability of television Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Audio capability Audio capability of receiver of television Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits The default mode is your input capability? As you choose. ...Two settings on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of audio capability to the source component? Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 ...
...Video capability of television Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Audio capability Audio capability of receiver of television Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits The default mode is your input capability? As you choose. ...Two settings on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of audio capability to the source component? Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 ...
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... 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 from receiver available Digital Video 720p No sound available from television Page 20 The audio is beyond its... & 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...
... 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 from receiver available Digital Video 720p No sound available from television Page 20 The audio is beyond its... & 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...