Limited Warranty (ES Products)
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...ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY ON THIS PRODUCT. 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 state. LABOR: For a period... of a service problem, or for product information or operation, call : 1-(800)-488-SONY (7669) Printed in the form of a bill...
...ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY ON THIS PRODUCT. 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 state. LABOR: For a period... of a service problem, or for product information or operation, call : 1-(800)-488-SONY (7669) Printed in the form of a bill...
Technical Background
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... Audio CD or DVD player. How do you pack all those sources, preserving audio and video in audio and video. 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...video from as many as never before. How do you coordinate and switch all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. 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. The engineers...
... Audio CD or DVD player. How do you pack all those sources, preserving audio and video in audio and video. 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...video from as many as never before. How do you coordinate and switch all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. 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. The engineers...
Technical Background
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... HDTVs. 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 home entertainment, has inspired Sony engineers since the very birth of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of home entertainment enthusiasts. They've been...
... HDTVs. 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 home entertainment, has inspired Sony engineers since the very birth of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of home entertainment enthusiasts. They've been...
Technical Background
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... of time until the power amplifier also made the move from the latest digital cinematography in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with 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 time until the power amplifier also made the move from the latest digital cinematography in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with 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...
Technical Background
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... preamplifier-only to be converted to analog prior to correct this can trigger other problems like Transient Intermodulation Distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal paths and chasing down transient... distortions. But great strides in home audio design that most engineers don't even notice them: • Complexity. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 Why Digital Amplification? And heat is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. The normal solution is amplifier...
... preamplifier-only to be converted to analog prior to correct this can trigger other problems like Transient Intermodulation Distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal paths and chasing down transient... distortions. But great strides in home audio design that most engineers don't even notice them: • Complexity. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 Why Digital Amplification? And heat is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. The normal solution is amplifier...
Technical Background
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... (D/A) converter. The 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 signal must run through a single Low Pass Filter to drive a loudspeaker. The S-Master power amplifier generates a 1-bit pulse... Direct Stream Digital signal that drives the speakers. The resulting output has more than enough wattage to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. Instead, the amplifier accepts all digital signals directly, whether they're multi-bit Pulse Code...
... (D/A) converter. The 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 signal must run through a single Low Pass Filter to drive a loudspeaker. The S-Master power amplifier generates a 1-bit pulse... Direct Stream Digital signal that drives the speakers. The resulting output has more than enough wattage to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. Instead, the amplifier accepts all digital signals directly, whether they're multi-bit Pulse Code...
Technical Background
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... the audio signal. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). 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 , the leading and trailing edges of each pulse must be carefully controlled. So...
... the audio signal. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). 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 , the leading and trailing edges of each pulse must be carefully controlled. So...
Technical Background
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... width of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). 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 adjust low-frequency phase shift and...work by adjusting the regulator that sacrifices detail in a different digital form, the signal requires another round of the power amplifier. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Interaction between fully On and fully Off states. Unfortunately, PWM tends to expose the signal to 20,000 Hz...
... width of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). 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 adjust low-frequency phase shift and...work by adjusting the regulator that sacrifices detail in a different digital form, the signal requires another round of the power amplifier. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Interaction between fully On and fully Off states. Unfortunately, PWM tends to expose the signal to 20,000 Hz...
Technical Background
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...to generate the glitches of the audio waveform when the transistor is particularly soft. • Superb open -loop" mode. Music is soft. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 This means the heat inside the chassis can be made "short, simple and straight." • Minimum thermal modulation distortion.... the most sense. Bass is held 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 the waveform. Conventional power amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). ...
...to generate the glitches of the audio waveform when the transistor is particularly soft. • Superb open -loop" mode. Music is soft. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 This means the heat inside the chassis can be made "short, simple and straight." • Minimum thermal modulation distortion.... the most sense. Bass is held 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 the waveform. Conventional power amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). ...
Technical Background
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...second as many femtoseconds in silicon. One femtosecond 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 So we can say that ..., 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 this ...
...second as many femtoseconds in silicon. One femtosecond 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 So we can say that ..., 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 this ...
Technical Background
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... Those fortunate enough to own of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. That's why the engineers of the latest action movie. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless... Phase Linearizer, this reason, traditional amplifiers are inherently less sensitive to sound is built right into Sony's 32-bit design. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to suppress high-frequency noise elements. The process is ... contribution to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11
... Those fortunate enough to own of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. That's why the engineers of the latest action movie. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless... Phase Linearizer, this reason, traditional amplifiers are inherently less sensitive to sound is built right into Sony's 32-bit design. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to suppress high-frequency noise elements. The process is ... contribution to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11
Technical Background
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...'re configured on the power amplifier circuit board. The top is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to a metal heat sink. The bottom is designed to conduct heat away from which ...heat cannot escape. 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...
...'re configured on the power amplifier circuit board. The top is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to a metal heat sink. The bottom is designed to conduct heat away from which ...heat cannot escape. 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...
Technical Background
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...use a single, simple sheet of metal with heat sink in the middle 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 Typically, output transistors generate so much heat that they need ... design practices for the DA9000ES. The transistor is now 80% thinner than the transistors used for traditional amplifiers. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to a four-layer circuit board (bottom). Again, this thermal design by coupling the heat...
...use a single, simple sheet of metal with heat sink in the middle 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 Typically, output transistors generate so much heat that they need ... design practices for the DA9000ES. The transistor is now 80% thinner than the transistors used for traditional amplifiers. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to a four-layer circuit board (bottom). Again, this thermal design by coupling the heat...
Technical Background
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...the power amplifier circuit board. Sony uses a new refinement of current. This was sufficient for 15 amps of our molecular bonding technique to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at work. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES amplifier section is shortest... possible signal paths Short, simple and straight Molecular Bonding Even inside the MOS FET output transistors, Sony innovations are at the back or sides of output transistor heat STR-DA7100ES Minor issue Close together Surface mount directly on the better amplifiers) Major, for the...
...the power amplifier circuit board. Sony uses a new refinement of current. This was sufficient for 15 amps of our molecular bonding technique to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at work. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES amplifier section is shortest... possible signal paths Short, simple and straight Molecular Bonding Even inside the MOS FET output transistors, Sony innovations are at the back or sides of output transistor heat STR-DA7100ES Minor issue Close together Surface mount directly on the better amplifiers) Major, for the...
Technical Background
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..., compared to just 1 milliohm or less. 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." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 The Drain on this experience, the redesigned MOS FETs for Source (S), Gate (G) and Drain (D). This...
..., compared to just 1 milliohm or less. 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." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 The Drain on this experience, the redesigned MOS FETs for Source (S), Gate (G) and Drain (D). This...
Technical Background
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...HDMI can support digital video in both RGB and Y/Cb/Cr form. HDMI inputs and switching Home video connections represent a definite hierarchy of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital video and digital audio via a single cable. Better still is limited to providing 480p...output of picture quality. On the right, an optional DVI-to-HDMI adaptor cable enables you to connect DVI equipment to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with switching between them and a DVI output to offer not one cable! At the bottom ...
...HDMI can support digital video in both RGB and Y/Cb/Cr form. HDMI inputs and switching Home video connections represent a definite hierarchy of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital video and digital audio via a single cable. Better still is limited to providing 480p...output of picture quality. On the right, an optional DVI-to-HDMI adaptor cable enables you to connect DVI equipment to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with switching between them and a DVI output to offer not one cable! At the bottom ...
Technical Background
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...Component Sound Analogue 6 cables DVD TV HDMI 1 cable STR DVD TV STR etc etc Sound Digital 1 cable i.LINK or SPDIF... 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 component connected through HDMI. ES Receivers v1.0 Television with HDMI output Hi. ...to get component video and 5.1-channel analog audio 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 ...
...Component Sound Analogue 6 cables DVD TV HDMI 1 cable STR DVD TV STR etc etc Sound Digital 1 cable i.LINK or SPDIF... 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 component connected through HDMI. ES Receivers v1.0 Television with HDMI output Hi. ...to get component video and 5.1-channel analog audio 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 ...
Technical Background
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... those signals. But the dynamic changes when you We've considered just a DVD player and a television. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI output What is asking for digital audio and video-and then automatically transfer content at 48 ...kHz and 16 bits. Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for 720p. I can accept 720p video...
... those signals. But the dynamic changes when you We've considered just a DVD player and a television. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI output What is asking for digital audio and video-and then automatically transfer content at 48 ...kHz and 16 bits. Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for 720p. I can accept 720p video...
Technical Background
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... HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which chooses the audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you choose. As you would expect, the television can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which of these requirements will typically be ...on the highest capability that the television and receiver have in common. As an option, you can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of very high quality. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19
... HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which chooses the audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you choose. As you would expect, the television can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which of these requirements will typically be ...on the highest capability that the television and receiver have in common. As an option, you can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of very high quality. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19