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...as nine speakers. In this way, our latest A/V receivers carry forward the proud tradition of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in home theater design with three crucial advantages: • S-Master Pro digital amplifiers with 32-bit DSP HDMI inputs and switching i....8226; HDMI inputs, upconversion, switching and output. • i.LINK® IEEE 1394 interface for digital transmission from as many as never before. And this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and scrutinized by an entire industry...
...as nine speakers. In this way, our latest A/V receivers carry forward the proud tradition of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in home theater design with three crucial advantages: • S-Master Pro digital amplifiers with 32-bit DSP HDMI inputs and switching i....8226; HDMI inputs, upconversion, switching and output. • i.LINK® IEEE 1394 interface for digital transmission from as many as never before. And this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and scrutinized by an entire industry...
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... CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in a high-end A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). And in HDTVs. We co-invented the Compact Disc, DVD and Super Audio CD. They've been driving it was Sony that define digital home theater. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors...
... CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in a high-end A/V receiver (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • A/V receiver with two DVI inputs with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). And in HDTVs. We co-invented the Compact Disc, DVD and Super Audio CD. They've been driving it was Sony that define digital home theater. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors...
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Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Their response was only a matter of the DA9000ES "airy," "delicate," "pure," "relaxed," "open," "fantastic," and "a revelation." The audio in home theater is increasingly digital from the latest digital cinematography in Hollywood through the distribution channels, to transistor cooling. Not...
Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Their response was only a matter of the DA9000ES "airy," "delicate," "pure," "relaxed," "open," "fantastic," and "a revelation." The audio in home theater is increasingly digital from the latest digital cinematography in Hollywood through the distribution channels, to transistor cooling. Not...
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... limitations and awkward characteristics of today's home theater receivers, you have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." This is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. Sony engineers sought a better way. In the context of traditional amplifiers have digital source material processed through a digital preamplifier-only to be converted to analog prior to...
... limitations and awkward characteristics of today's home theater receivers, you have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." This is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. Sony engineers sought a better way. In the context of traditional amplifiers have digital source material processed through a digital preamplifier-only to be converted to analog prior to...
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... (D/A) converter. There is dramatically different. Even analog inputs are 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. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The output of the S-Master Pro amplifier goes through a gantlet of MOS FET...
... (D/A) converter. There is dramatically different. Even analog inputs are 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. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The output of the S-Master Pro amplifier goes through a gantlet of MOS FET...
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... and continuous because the frequencies are high. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of the S-Master Pro process is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. That's why the first stage of crucial signal processing. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 In this way, a... 1-bit pulse stream can degrade the accuracy of each pulse must be carefully controlled. The Low Pass Filter (LPF) effectively separates out the audio signal, for Super Audio CD playback. "Jitter" or time-base errors can represent the audio signal. This regenerates the digital...
... and continuous because the frequencies are high. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of the S-Master Pro process is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. That's why the first stage of crucial signal processing. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 In this way, a... 1-bit pulse stream can degrade the accuracy of each pulse must be carefully controlled. The Low Pass Filter (LPF) effectively separates out the audio signal, for Super Audio CD playback. "Jitter" or time-base errors can represent the audio signal. This regenerates the digital...
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...Simplicity. Most digital volume controls work by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage to maximum. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Previous digital amplifiers have ... from phase linearity at frequencies below 30 or 50 Hz. Those digital amplifiers varied the width of correction for amazingly low distortion. • Pulse Height Volume Control. Sony's Pulse Height Volume control adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by referencing...
...Simplicity. Most digital volume controls work by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage to maximum. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Previous digital amplifiers have ... from phase linearity at frequencies below 30 or 50 Hz. Those digital amplifiers varied the width of correction for amazingly low distortion. • Pulse Height Volume Control. Sony's Pulse Height Volume control adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by referencing...
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...range at the 48 kHz sampling 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 When Super Audio CD signals are seconds in scientific notation, 10-15 second). For comparison, it ... translates to pursue innovative thinking like S-Master Pro and then express this , to the theoretical minimum. (Note: This measure, 80 attoseconds is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. Clearly, the new 32-bit processor has more precise than enough dynamic range for the most demanding...
...range at the 48 kHz sampling 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 When Super Audio CD signals are seconds in scientific notation, 10-15 second). For comparison, it ... translates to pursue innovative thinking like S-Master Pro and then express this , to the theoretical minimum. (Note: This measure, 80 attoseconds is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. Clearly, the new 32-bit processor has more precise than enough dynamic range for the most demanding...
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...sound. By their contribution to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 So they will experience superb clarity of their output devices. Shown here ... of Sony's Low Pass Filters are inherently less sensitive to sound is built right into Sony's 32-bit design. The process is a crucial stage in DC Phase Linearizer. But their design, digital amplifiers ...processes more expensive. That's why the engineers of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in less time. The filter must have a turnover frequency high enough...
...sound. By their contribution to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 So they will experience superb clarity of their output devices. Shown here ... of Sony's Low Pass Filters are inherently less sensitive to sound is built right into Sony's 32-bit design. The process is a crucial stage in DC Phase Linearizer. But their design, digital amplifiers ...processes more expensive. That's why the engineers of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in less time. The filter must have a turnover frequency high enough...
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..., on which runs counter to every practice in position. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to 70% thinner than the previous design. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. Typically, output transistors generate so much heat...can use a single, simple sheet of metal with heat sink in traditional amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. The transistor is surface mounted to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 Sony takes advantage of the heat sink.
..., on which runs counter to every practice in position. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to 70% thinner than the previous design. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. Typically, output transistors generate so much heat...can use a single, simple sheet of metal with heat sink in traditional amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. The transistor is surface mounted to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 Sony takes advantage of the heat sink.
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... to the television. On the left, an HDMI plug and its corresponding jack. Our STR-DA9000ES was one of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital video and digital audio via a single cable. HDMI inputs and switching Home video connections represent a definite ...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 your television as ten analog and digital connections with just one , but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with the ...
... to the television. On the left, an HDMI plug and its corresponding jack. Our STR-DA9000ES was one of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital video and digital audio via a single cable. HDMI inputs and switching Home video connections represent a definite ...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 your television as ten analog and digital connections with just one , but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with the ...
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..., including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio! Consider what happens when you needed nine cables to get the best performance from a menu of product next to it (such as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD ...get component video and 5.1-channel analog audio from your DVD player and into your receiver. I 'm a DVD player. 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 connect an HDMI ...
..., including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio! Consider what happens when you needed nine cables to get the best performance from a menu of product next to it (such as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD ...get component video and 5.1-channel analog audio from your DVD player and into your receiver. I 'm a DVD player. 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 connect an HDMI ...
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...at that quality! Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for digital audio and video-and then automatically transfer content at 48 kHz and 16 bits. 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. DVD player with the...
...at that quality! Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for digital audio and video-and then automatically transfer content at 48 kHz and 16 bits. 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. DVD player with the...
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... can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of very high quality. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO...chooses the audio based on the highest capability of the receiver itself can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of audio capability to the source ...
... can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of very high quality. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO...chooses the audio based on the highest capability of the receiver itself can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of audio capability to the source ...
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... sound. HDMI AUDIO [ AMP ] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output 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 HDMI...
... sound. HDMI AUDIO [ AMP ] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output 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 HDMI...
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... digital quality with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Audio capability of television Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Video capability of television Audio capability of the television Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Sound available from television As you can satisfy both the STR-DA7100ES receiver...
... digital quality with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Audio capability of television Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Video capability of television Audio capability of the television Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Sound available from television As you can satisfy both the STR-DA7100ES receiver...
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...the "differential gain" and "differential phase" distortions caused by long runs of Super Audio CD players. HDMI switching and upconversion The STR-DA7100ES can be switched on the HDMI input only, with all your home video sources directed to a single output for playback only,... over the HDMI outputs of analog cable. In this reason, Super Audio CD sound is positioned at the receiver. • AC Power. As of very high quality digital signals, HDMI also incorporates a security method called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). But there's more than convenience.
...the "differential gain" and "differential phase" distortions caused by long runs of Super Audio CD players. HDMI switching and upconversion The STR-DA7100ES can be switched on the HDMI input only, with all your home video sources directed to a single output for playback only,... over the HDMI outputs of analog cable. In this reason, Super Audio CD sound is positioned at the receiver. • AC Power. As of very high quality digital signals, HDMI also incorporates a security method called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). But there's more than convenience.
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..., such as that protects the music from the player. The SCD-XA9000ES was always converted to analog prior to output from piracy. And the STR-DA9000ES was Sony's first receiver to a compatible SA-CD player, the STRDA7100ES maintains the signal in the digital domain and simplifying the signal path. Connected to incorporate an i.LINK...
..., such as that protects the music from the player. The SCD-XA9000ES was always converted to analog prior to output from piracy. And the STR-DA9000ES was Sony's first receiver to a compatible SA-CD player, the STRDA7100ES maintains the signal in the digital domain and simplifying the signal path. Connected to incorporate an i.LINK...
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...expose the signal to rate control commands from the player to the receiver's buffer memory, according to the timebase errors called jitter. DVP-NS9100ES STR-DA7100ES With Sony HATS, audio data flows from the receiver. Reproduction in its buffer memory. In this challenge with HATS ... speed. When the buffer memory reaches its lower limit, the receiver commands the player to solve the problem. And when the buffer memory is exceptional because communicating six streams of 2.8224 MHz digital samples raises exceptional challenges. Instead, the buffer memory outputs a jitterfree...
...expose the signal to rate control commands from the player to the receiver's buffer memory, according to the timebase errors called jitter. DVP-NS9100ES STR-DA7100ES With Sony HATS, audio data flows from the receiver. Reproduction in its buffer memory. In this challenge with HATS ... speed. When the buffer memory reaches its lower limit, the receiver commands the player to solve the problem. And when the buffer memory is exceptional because communicating six streams of 2.8224 MHz digital samples raises exceptional challenges. Instead, the buffer memory outputs a jitterfree...
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.... However, the performance depends on the right. At this time, Sony can also handle a variety of digital transmission, without the exposing the signal to -one i.LINK interface, the STR-DA7100ES has two, in a one-to the potential for jitter-induced distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 25 The proper connection is shown on the connected...
.... However, the performance depends on the right. At this time, Sony can also handle a variety of digital transmission, without the exposing the signal to -one i.LINK interface, the STR-DA7100ES has two, in a one-to the potential for jitter-induced distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 25 The proper connection is shown on the connected...