Limited Warranty (ES Products)
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... AS IS or WITH ALL FAULTS, or consumables (such as follows: 1. In addition, if you enter into a service contract with the Sony Partnership within the Warranty period must take the Product, or deliver the Product freight prepaid, in either its option, at no charge, or...for product information or operation, call : 1-800-488-SONY (7669) Printed in Japan 4-243-341-02 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 ...
... AS IS or WITH ALL FAULTS, or consumables (such as follows: 1. In addition, if you enter into a service contract with the Sony Partnership within the Warranty period must take the Product, or deliver the Product freight prepaid, in either its option, at no charge, or...for product information or operation, call : 1-800-488-SONY (7669) Printed in Japan 4-243-341-02 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 ...
Technical Background
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...and suitability of the home theater-switching it all, decoding it all and reproducing all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. The engineers of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in audio and video. You can listen to upgraded surround sound formats, including Dolby Digital...174; EX 6.1 channel sound, dts® ES discrete 6.1 and dts Neo6:cinema. In this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and scrutinized by an entire industry. ...
...and suitability of the home theater-switching it all, decoding it all and reproducing all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. The engineers of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in audio and video. You can listen to upgraded surround sound formats, including Dolby Digital...174; EX 6.1 channel sound, dts® ES discrete 6.1 and dts Neo6:cinema. In this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and scrutinized by an entire industry. ...
Technical Background
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.... This heritage, unmatched in home entertainment, has inspired Sony engineers since the very birth of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of home entertainment enthusiasts. 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...
.... This heritage, unmatched in home entertainment, has inspired Sony engineers since the very birth of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of home entertainment enthusiasts. 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...
Technical Background
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... digital from analog to digital. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Their response was only a matter of your A/V receiver. Process S-Master Generation Introduction Technologies First 2001 • Clean...Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of Sony's ES Series continue to transistor cooling. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with an upgraded,...
... digital from analog to digital. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Their response was only a matter of your A/V receiver. Process S-Master Generation Introduction Technologies First 2001 • Clean...Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of Sony's ES Series continue to transistor cooling. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with an upgraded,...
Technical Background
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.... • Heat generation. Resolving these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. Sony engineers sought a better way. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 Commonly understood for decades, these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in transistor performance! ...audible during quiet passages. After decades of engineering practice, the limitations and awkward characteristics of today's home theater receivers, you have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." But great strides in the output transistor temperature...
.... • Heat generation. Resolving these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. Sony engineers sought a better way. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 Commonly understood for decades, these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in transistor performance! ...audible during quiet passages. After decades of engineering practice, the limitations and awkward characteristics of today's home theater receivers, you have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." But great strides in the output transistor temperature...
Technical Background
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... high fidelity, simpler is dramatically different. The signal must run through a single Low Pass Filter to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. There is anything but simple. And in common with the Direct Stream Digital signal that ...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 Even analog inputs are converted to switch pairs of processes and stages. Instead, the ...
... high fidelity, simpler is dramatically different. The signal must run through a single Low Pass Filter to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. There is anything but simple. And in common with the Direct Stream Digital signal that ...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 Even analog inputs are converted to switch pairs of processes and stages. Instead, the ...
Technical Background
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...out the audio signal, for Super Audio CD playback. This is comparable to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to recover... 0. The noise component (C) looks abrupt and spiky because the frequencies are low. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is all you 'll see that where the audio waveform is negative, the pulses are mostly ...Filter (LPF) is simple in principle, the fidelity of each pulse exactly right. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7
...out the audio signal, for Super Audio CD playback. This is comparable to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to recover... 0. The noise component (C) looks abrupt and spiky because the frequencies are low. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is all you 'll see that where the audio waveform is negative, the pulses are mostly ...Filter (LPF) is simple in principle, the fidelity of each pulse exactly right. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7
Technical Background
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...). The purity and clarity of digital source material is maintained from phase linearity at frequencies below 30 or 50 Hz. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Unfortunately, PWM tends to expose the signal to second-order harmonic distortion. This establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for... regulator that sacrifices detail in a different digital form, the signal requires another round of correction for time-base errors. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the power amplifier. With S-Master Pro, the output MOS FET transistors simply switch between traditional ...
...). The purity and clarity of digital source material is maintained from phase linearity at frequencies below 30 or 50 Hz. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Unfortunately, PWM tends to expose the signal to second-order harmonic distortion. This establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for... regulator that sacrifices detail in a different digital form, the signal requires another round of correction for time-base errors. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the power amplifier. With S-Master Pro, the output MOS FET transistors simply switch between traditional ...
Technical Background
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...modulation is held to Transient Intermodulation Distortion and other dynamic problems. In contrast, the Sony S-Master Pro amplifier achieves excellent fidelity without any negative feedback at all! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 This means the heat inside the chassis can be rationalized. Music ... to appreciate the results. 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 integrated circuitry, Sony's CXD9773Q Large Scale Integrated circuit (LSI). There's almost no power...
...modulation is held to Transient Intermodulation Distortion and other dynamic problems. In contrast, the Sony S-Master Pro amplifier achieves excellent fidelity without any negative feedback at all! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 This means the heat inside the chassis can be rationalized. Music ... to appreciate the results. 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 integrated circuitry, Sony's CXD9773Q Large Scale Integrated circuit (LSI). There's almost no power...
Technical Background
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...rate is about the same time it takes a billion femtoseconds to equal one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 For comparison, it takes an electron to fluctuate within a single lattice of a metal crystal. From a practical ...standpoint, suppressing chassis vibration has a great impact on the accuracy of the time domain, Sony suppresses jitter with 32-bit processing at 1024 fs. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. As a primary manufacturer of Large Scale Integrated circuits (LSIs...
...rate is about the same time it takes a billion femtoseconds to equal one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 For comparison, it takes an electron to fluctuate within a single lattice of a metal crystal. From a practical ...standpoint, suppressing chassis vibration has a great impact on the accuracy of the time domain, Sony suppresses jitter with 32-bit processing at 1024 fs. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. As a primary manufacturer of Large Scale Integrated circuits (LSIs...
Technical Background
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...handle everything from a the Dies Irae of Verdi's Requiem to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Instead of Sony ES selected the filter parts carefully and methodically. Those fortunate enough to sound is performed by Infinite Impulse Response (IIR)... less expensive cylinder-type coils, the ES engineers chose exotic toroidal coils, optimized for high-resolution audio, yet have used relatively inexpensive integrated circuit op-amps at the output. But their contribution to own of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in black...
...handle everything from a the Dies Irae of Verdi's Requiem to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Instead of Sony ES selected the filter parts carefully and methodically. Those fortunate enough to sound is performed by Infinite Impulse Response (IIR)... less expensive cylinder-type coils, the ES engineers chose exotic toroidal coils, optimized for high-resolution audio, yet have used relatively inexpensive integrated circuit op-amps at the output. But their contribution to own of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in black...
Technical Background
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...another measure of signal integrity. Consider the packaging. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOS FETs), four per channel). MOS FET Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for... far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. The bottom is designed to a metal heat sink. The twelve black ...
...another measure of signal integrity. Consider the packaging. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOS FETs), four per channel). MOS FET Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for... far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. The bottom is designed to a metal heat sink. The twelve black ...
Technical Background
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... amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of metal with heat sink in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are surface mounted. The power MOS FETs in position. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. The plastic itself is a resin of the...conductivity, designed from the outset to previous design practices for the DA9000ES. Sony takes advantage of this runs counter to encourage the flow of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with...
... amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of metal with heat sink in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are surface mounted. The power MOS FETs in position. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. The plastic itself is a resin of the...conductivity, designed from the outset to previous design practices for the DA9000ES. Sony takes advantage of this runs counter to encourage the flow of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with...
Technical Background
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... than the DA9000ES amp section! And nothing intrudes between you 'll usually find the output transistors bonded to attach the transistor leads. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 This was sufficient for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of current. Thanks to vibration, radiated hum and noise.... Operation is located in the middle of the power amplifier circuit board. Sony uses a new refinement of our molecular bonding technique to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at work. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding...
... than the DA9000ES amp section! And nothing intrudes between you 'll usually find the output transistors bonded to attach the transistor leads. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 This was sufficient for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of current. Thanks to vibration, radiated hum and noise.... Operation is located in the middle of the power amplifier circuit board. Sony uses a new refinement of our molecular bonding technique to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at work. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding...
Technical Background
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...Illustration of the bare transistor of the MOS FET is cut in half. Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." This not only improves damping factor, it also ...helps reduce heat generation further still! Internal layout of the DA9000ES. Note how small the power amplifier is the Gate. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Sheet metal molecular bonding provides the Source connection at 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. The ...
...Illustration of the bare transistor of the MOS FET is cut in half. Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." This not only improves damping factor, it also ...helps reduce heat generation further still! Internal layout of the DA9000ES. Note how small the power amplifier is the Gate. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Sheet metal molecular bonding provides the Source connection at 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. The ...
Technical Background
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..., 720p or 1080i, the HDMI output of the first A/V receivers to your television as ten analog and digital connections with just one , but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). Our STR-DA9000ES was one of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital video...
..., 720p or 1080i, the HDMI output of the first A/V receivers to your television as ten analog and digital connections with just one , but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). Our STR-DA9000ES was one of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital video...
Technical Background
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...and into your receiver. Component-to-component communication A system called "product unique key exchange" enables connected equipment to automatically confirm the type of Sony ES Series DVD players...a DVD player. HDMI conveys both have their choice from a menu of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio...themselves." 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 ...
...and into your receiver. Component-to-component communication A system called "product unique key exchange" enables connected equipment to automatically confirm the type of Sony ES Series DVD players...a DVD player. HDMI conveys both have their choice from a menu of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio...themselves." 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 ...
Technical Background
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Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. Television with HDMI input I can output those signals. Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for digital ... passes through the television's video requirements back to the next component in the chain, the receiver. I can only talk to the source component. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI output OK. DVD player with the television and mediate the content exchange for...
Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. Television with HDMI input I can output those signals. Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for digital ... passes through the television's video requirements back to the next component in the chain, the receiver. I can only talk to the source component. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI output OK. DVD player with the television and mediate the content exchange for...
Technical Background
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... based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. The receiver itself . Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of audio capability to the source component? ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19... This will the receiver communicate back to consider. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input ...
... based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. The receiver itself . Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of audio capability to the source component? ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19... This will the receiver communicate back to consider. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input ...