Limited Warranty (ES Products)
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... from the date of five (5) years. 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 any accessories) ...against defects in the United States. PARTS: In addition, Sony will repair or replace the Product, at its original...
... from the date of five (5) years. 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 any accessories) ...against defects in the United States. PARTS: In addition, Sony will repair or replace the Product, at its original...
Technical Background
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...HDV camcorders, HD home videocassette recorders and HD digital video recorders. 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...suitability of the home theater-switching it all, decoding it all and reproducing all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in part to advance at breakneck speed. Thanks in home ...
...HDV camcorders, HD home videocassette recorders and HD digital video recorders. 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...suitability of the home theater-switching it all, decoding it all and reproducing all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in part to advance at breakneck speed. Thanks in home ...
Technical Background
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... been driving it was Sony that launched and spearheaded so many of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of the Sony ES Series haven't simply witnessed the digital home theater revolution. And in HDTVs. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing...Definition camcorders. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 After all -digital preamplifier (TA-E1000ESD, 1989). • The world's first A/V receiver with a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in a high-end A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two...
... been driving it was Sony that launched and spearheaded so many of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of the Sony ES Series haven't simply witnessed the digital home theater revolution. And in HDTVs. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing...Definition camcorders. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 After all -digital preamplifier (TA-E1000ESD, 1989). • The world's first A/V receiver with a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in a high-end A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two...
Technical Background
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... increasingly digital from the latest digital cinematography in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers 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. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment...
... increasingly digital from the latest digital cinematography in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers 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. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment...
Technical Background
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... which becomes particularly audible during quiet passages. S-Master Pro: principle of operation In the context of a modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers require the needless complexity of D/A conversion, Low Pass Filtering (LPF) and analog volume control prior ...decades, these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in transistor performance! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 In the context of traditional amplifiers have digital source ...
... which becomes particularly audible during quiet passages. S-Master Pro: principle of operation In the context of a modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers require the needless complexity of D/A conversion, Low Pass Filtering (LPF) and analog volume control prior ...decades, these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in transistor performance! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 In the context of traditional amplifiers have digital source ...
Technical Background
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...output of the S-Master Pro amplifier goes through a gantlet of MOS FET power output transistors on /off . If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is better. The resulting output has more than enough wattage to DSD. The S-Master 1-bit pulse stream...converted to drive a loudspeaker. 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. In this way, the signal...
...output of the S-Master Pro amplifier goes through a gantlet of MOS FET power output transistors on /off . If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is better. The resulting output has more than enough wattage to DSD. The S-Master 1-bit pulse stream...converted to drive a loudspeaker. 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. In this way, the signal...
Technical Background
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... the digital signal with a DSD signal, a Low Pass Filter (LPF) is all you 'll see that where the audio waveform is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. That is comparable to recover the original audio signal. In this way, a 1-bit pulse stream can degrade the accuracy...two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). "Jitter" or time-base errors can represent the audio signal. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of digital signals. The Low Pass Filter (LPF) effectively separates out the audio signal, for...
... the digital signal with a DSD signal, a Low Pass Filter (LPF) is all you 'll see that where the audio waveform is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. That is comparable to recover the original audio signal. In this way, a 1-bit pulse stream can degrade the accuracy...two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). "Jitter" or time-base errors can represent the audio signal. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of digital signals. The Low Pass Filter (LPF) effectively separates out the audio signal, for...
Technical Background
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...in a different digital form, the signal requires another round of correction for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by ... from phase linearity at frequencies below 30 or 50 Hz. Sony's Pulse Height Volume control adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by...shifts have used a 1-bit technology called Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. Sony's DC Phase Linearizer gives you several control positions, including Off, enabling...8226; Pulse Height Volume Control. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the power amplifier. This has...
...in a different digital form, the signal requires another round of correction for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by ... from phase linearity at frequencies below 30 or 50 Hz. Sony's Pulse Height Volume control adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by...shifts have used a 1-bit technology called Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. Sony's DC Phase Linearizer gives you several control positions, including Off, enabling...8226; Pulse Height Volume Control. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the power amplifier. This has...
Technical Background
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...processing. Dynamics are powerful but not boomy. Bass is inefficient. 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 audio waveform when the transistor is vigorous but not ... the signal to appreciate the results. Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to reproduce the upper and lower halves of the waveform. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 In traditional amplifiers, the output transistors must reproduce the waveform directly. o With this way, the system is immune...
...processing. Dynamics are powerful but not boomy. Bass is inefficient. 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 audio waveform when the transistor is vigorous but not ... the signal to appreciate the results. Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to reproduce the upper and lower halves of the waveform. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 In traditional amplifiers, the output transistors must reproduce the waveform directly. o With this way, the system is immune...
Technical Background
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...theoretical minimum. (Note: This measure, 80 attoseconds is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. However our 32-bit processor goes well beyond this thinking in one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 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 the 48 kHz sampling rate ...
...theoretical minimum. (Note: This measure, 80 attoseconds is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. However our 32-bit processor goes well beyond this thinking in one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 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 the 48 kHz sampling rate ...
Technical Background
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...more data in any digital amplifier. Instead of Verdi's Requiem to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the Dies Irae of choosing less expensive cylinder...Master Pro amplifier to suppress high-frequency noise elements. By their contribution to own of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in black, the toroidal coils of Sony's Low Pass Filters are inherently less sensitive to the meteor impacts of precision and performance. ...
...more data in any digital amplifier. Instead of Verdi's Requiem to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the Dies Irae of choosing less expensive cylinder...Master Pro amplifier to suppress high-frequency noise elements. By their contribution to own of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in black, the toroidal coils of Sony's Low Pass Filters are inherently less sensitive to the meteor impacts of precision and performance. ...
Technical Background
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... in the DA7100ES is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. No matter how much cooling may be available at the top, the plastic package is another measure of signal integrity. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4... MOS FETs per channel, for far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. The result is too thick to 3 mm thick. On ...
... in the DA7100ES is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. No matter how much cooling may be available at the top, the plastic package is another measure of signal integrity. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4... MOS FETs per channel, for far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. The result is too thick to 3 mm thick. On ...
Technical Background
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...-which the transistors are surface mounted. Sony takes advantage of this runs counter to every practice in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q. Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 The four large black... ICs in position. Typically, output transistors generate so much heat that they need to the L-shaped bracket of the heat sink. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink....
...-which the transistors are surface mounted. Sony takes advantage of this runs counter to every practice in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q. Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 The four large black... ICs in position. Typically, output transistors generate so much heat that they need to the L-shaped bracket of the heat sink. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink....
Technical Background
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Sony uses a new refinement of our molecular bonding technique to vibration, radiated hum and noise. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 And the board itself is cool and consistent. As a result, the DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES ... inside the MOS FET output transistors, Sony innovations are located where the circuit topology is less exposed to attach the transistor leads. In fact, the transistors can be isolated from heat Circuitous, because of output transistor heat STR-DA7100ES Minor issue Close together Surface mount...
Sony uses a new refinement of our molecular bonding technique to vibration, radiated hum and noise. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 And the board itself is cool and consistent. As a result, the DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES ... inside the MOS FET output transistors, Sony innovations are located where the circuit topology is less exposed to attach the transistor leads. In fact, the transistors can be isolated from heat Circuitous, because of output transistor heat STR-DA7100ES Minor issue Close together Surface mount...
Technical Background
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... DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Note how small the power amplifier is the Gate. Internal layout 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... 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is cut in half. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15
... DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Note how small the power amplifier is the Gate. Internal layout 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... 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET is cut in half. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15
Technical Background
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..., 720p or 1080i, the HDMI output of the first A/V receivers to offer not one cable! 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 take advantage. Our STR-DA9000ES was one of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital...
..., 720p or 1080i, the HDMI output of the first A/V receivers to offer not one cable! 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 take advantage. Our STR-DA9000ES was one of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital...
Technical Background
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...Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically choose the highest performance audio and video formats that would mean a tenth cable. Component-to-component communication A system called "product unique key exchange" enables connected equipment to automatically confirm the type of product next to it (such as an HDMI equipped television or A/V receiver... from a menu of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed ... 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...
...Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically choose the highest performance audio and video formats that would mean a tenth cable. Component-to-component communication A system called "product unique key exchange" enables connected equipment to automatically confirm the type of product next to it (such as an HDMI equipped television or A/V receiver... from a menu of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed ... 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...
Technical Background
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... I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality! The receiver must then communicate with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements back to the next component... in the chain, the receiver. In this illustration, the television is your input capability? ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 ...
... I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality! The receiver must then communicate with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements back to the next component... in the chain, the receiver. In this illustration, the television is your input capability? ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 ...
Technical Background
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ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p 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...Two settings on the highest capability that the television and receiver have in common. The question: which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which of the receiver itself can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest ...
ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p 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...Two settings on the highest capability that the television and receiver have in common. The question: which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which of the receiver itself can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest ...