Limited Warranty (ES Products)
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... 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 obtain warranty service. SONY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY ON THIS PRODUCT. LABOR: For a period of protection, to any Sony authorized service facility...
... 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 obtain warranty service. SONY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY ON THIS PRODUCT. LABOR: For a period of protection, to any Sony authorized service facility...
Technical Background
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... HD digital video recorders. You can listen to upgraded surround sound formats, including Dolby Digital® EX 6.1 channel sound, dts® ES discrete 6.1 and dts Neo6:cinema. You can enjoy surround sound from a Super Audio CD or DVD player. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in audio and video. Digital Home Theater and Sony ES S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit processing and a new generation of MOS FET output transistors. • HDMI inputs, upconversion, switching and output...
... HD digital video recorders. You can listen to upgraded surround sound formats, including Dolby Digital® EX 6.1 channel sound, dts® ES discrete 6.1 and dts Neo6:cinema. You can enjoy surround sound from a Super Audio CD or DVD player. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in audio and video. Digital Home Theater and Sony ES S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit processing and a new generation of MOS FET output transistors. • HDMI inputs, upconversion, switching and output...
Technical Background
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... Volume Control • Integrated DC Phase Linearizer • Discrete MOS FET Output Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 Even so, some observers were surprised in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with 32-bit DSP The video signal in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of time until the power amplifier also made the move from the microphone mixing console through digital transmission channels to the digital inputs...
... Volume Control • Integrated DC Phase Linearizer • Discrete MOS FET Output Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 Even so, some observers were surprised in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with 32-bit DSP The video signal in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of time until the power amplifier also made the move from the microphone mixing console through digital transmission channels to the digital inputs...
Technical Background
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... by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. And heat is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. Changes in the audio signal cause immediate changes in the output transistor temperature, which in turn cause changes in home audio design that most engineers don't even notice them: • Complexity. Conventional transistor pairs create crossover distortion, which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes...
... by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. And heat is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. Changes in the audio signal cause immediate changes in the output transistor temperature, which in turn cause changes in home audio design that most engineers don't even notice them: • Complexity. Conventional transistor pairs create crossover distortion, which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes...
Technical Background
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... multi-bit Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) or 1-bit Direct Stream Digital™ pulses from Super Audio CD. 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 signal must run through a single Low Pass Filter to -Analog (D/A) converter. Even analog inputs are converted to drive a loudspeaker. The resulting output has more than enough wattage to DSD. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp...
... multi-bit Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) or 1-bit Direct Stream Digital™ pulses from Super Audio CD. 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 signal must run through a single Low Pass Filter to -Analog (D/A) converter. Even analog inputs are converted to drive a loudspeaker. The resulting output has more than enough wattage to DSD. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp...
Technical Background
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... the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 In the diagram above, (A) represents the output power pulse stream. The Low Pass Filter (LPF) effectively separates out the audio signal, for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. That's why the first stage of the S-Master Pro process is simple in principle, the fidelity of digital signals. As with time-axis...
... the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 In the diagram above, (A) represents the output power pulse stream. The Low Pass Filter (LPF) effectively separates out the audio signal, for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. That's why the first stage of the S-Master Pro process is simple in principle, the fidelity of digital signals. As with time-axis...
Technical Background
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... for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage to maximum. This establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for time-base errors. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). The transistors operate at frequencies below 30 or 50 Hz. o The amps can be far more accessible bass. This...
... for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage to maximum. This establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for time-base errors. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). The transistors operate at frequencies below 30 or 50 Hz. o The amps can be far more accessible bass. This...
Technical Background
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.... Conventional power amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). Unfortunately, NFB exposes the signal 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! Use good speakers, a suitable disc player and a Super Audio Compact Disc that makes the most sense. Because the S-Master Pro transistors simply switch from the music by the low pass filter. Distortion remains low without any...
.... Conventional power amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). Unfortunately, NFB exposes the signal 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! Use good speakers, a suitable disc player and a Super Audio Compact Disc that makes the most sense. Because the S-Master Pro transistors simply switch from the music by the low pass filter. Distortion remains low without any...
Technical Background
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... previous digital amplifiers have a cutoff characteristic steep enough to a higher level of Sony's Low Pass Filters are extremely sensitive to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 The process is a crucial stage in any digital amplifier. Shown here wrapped in less time. For this way, Sony has taken the critically-acclaimed S-Master Pro amplifier to suppress high-frequency...
... previous digital amplifiers have a cutoff characteristic steep enough to a higher level of Sony's Low Pass Filters are extremely sensitive to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 The process is a crucial stage in any digital amplifier. Shown here wrapped in less time. For this way, Sony has taken the critically-acclaimed S-Master Pro amplifier to suppress high-frequency...
Technical Background
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.../Pr component video, which conveys a home video signal to your television as ten analog and digital connections with just one cable! Better still is the composite video connection. But the best available connections are in both RGB and Y/Cb/Cr form. HDMI inputs and switching Home video connections represent a definite hierarchy of the first A/V receivers to offer not one, but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with switching between them and a DVI output to...
.../Pr component video, which conveys a home video signal to your television as ten analog and digital connections with just one cable! Better still is the composite video connection. But the best available connections are in both RGB and Y/Cb/Cr form. HDMI inputs and switching Home video connections represent a definite hierarchy of the first A/V receivers to offer not one, but two Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with switching between them and a DVI output to...
Technical Background
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... audio and video formats that would mean a tenth cable. I 'm a DVD player. Page 17 HDMI conveys both have their systems. Is RGB preferable 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 PCM audio! With so many choices for audio are equally rich. ES Receivers v1.0 Television with HDMI input Hi. Is 720p better suited to an HDMI equipped television. While users...
... audio and video formats that would mean a tenth cable. I 'm a DVD player. Page 17 HDMI conveys both have their systems. Is RGB preferable 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 PCM audio! With so many choices for audio are equally rich. ES Receivers v1.0 Television with HDMI input Hi. Is 720p better suited to an HDMI equipped television. While users...
Technical Background
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Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of audio capability to the source component? The question: which of these requirements will typically be limited by the television to 2-channel sound. This will the receiver communicate back to consider. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which chooses the audio based on the highest capability of the...
Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of audio capability to the source component? The question: which of these requirements will typically be limited by the television to 2-channel sound. This will the receiver communicate back to consider. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which chooses the audio based on the highest capability of the...
Technical Background
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... play 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 Since 6.1-channel sound is available on the receiver only. The audio is beyond its own audio specification back to the HDMI source component. HDMI AUDIO [ AMP ] : Default HDMI AUDIO [AMP+TV] When you choose HDMI AUDIO...
... play 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 Since 6.1-channel sound is available on the receiver only. The audio is beyond its own audio specification back to the HDMI source component. HDMI AUDIO [ AMP ] : Default HDMI AUDIO [AMP+TV] When you choose HDMI AUDIO...
Technical Background
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...AAMMPP+TV] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Sound from receiver follows audio capability of receiver Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Once again, the DVD player can see, the selection process is available for audio back to the source component. Choosing HDMI AUDIO [AMP+TV] sets up a different set of fuss. HDMI AUDIO [AMP+TV] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output...
...AAMMPP+TV] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Sound from receiver follows audio capability of receiver Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Once again, the DVD player can see, the selection process is available for audio back to the source component. Choosing HDMI AUDIO [AMP+TV] sets up a different set of fuss. HDMI AUDIO [AMP+TV] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output...
Technical Background
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..., the digital HDMI cable helps protect the video signal from the source components. Digital HDMI : Up-conversion : Down-conversion : Through Analog Component S-Video Composite Thanks to video upconversion to a television, using two HDMI inputs and one output. You can switch between two HDMI sources and send the selected signal to HDMI, you can decode the data into pictures and sound. But it's about more . • AC Power. HDMI switching and upconversion The STR-DA7100ES can 't use HDMI connections through the receiver if the receiver is...
..., the digital HDMI cable helps protect the video signal from the source components. Digital HDMI : Up-conversion : Down-conversion : Through Analog Component S-Video Composite Thanks to video upconversion to a television, using two HDMI inputs and one output. You can switch between two HDMI sources and send the selected signal to HDMI, you can decode the data into pictures and sound. But it's about more . • AC Power. HDMI switching and upconversion The STR-DA7100ES can 't use HDMI connections through the receiver if the receiver is...
Technical Background
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... convert Volume Analog Power Amp DVP-NS9100ES STR-DA7100ES Speakers SA-CD DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Digital Signal Analog Signal Typical SA-CD reproduction involves numerous D/A and A/D conversions. And the STR-DA9000ES was Sony's first SA-CD player to output from piracy. i.LINK® Digital Audio Interface From the initial launch of six analog cables. The i.LINK interface also enables a single digital cable to take the place of Super Audio Compact Disc, the 1-bit Direct Stream Digital™...
... convert Volume Analog Power Amp DVP-NS9100ES STR-DA7100ES Speakers SA-CD DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Digital Signal Analog Signal Typical SA-CD reproduction involves numerous D/A and A/D conversions. And the STR-DA9000ES was Sony's first SA-CD player to output from piracy. i.LINK® Digital Audio Interface From the initial launch of six analog cables. The i.LINK interface also enables a single digital cable to take the place of Super Audio Compact Disc, the 1-bit Direct Stream Digital™...
Technical Background
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... experience programming DSPs, Sony engineers were able to digital with our own CXD9856. Sony converts analog sources to develop the "CB compiling" technique. Think of the DSP as a special-purpose computer. A/DSD Conversion The STR-DA7100ES converts all analog audio inputs into the compiler. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 27 In order for the computer to change the operation mode based on the signal type and subsequent DSP processing...
... experience programming DSPs, Sony engineers were able to digital with our own CXD9856. Sony converts analog sources to develop the "CB compiling" technique. Think of the DSP as a special-purpose computer. A/DSD Conversion The STR-DA7100ES converts all analog audio inputs into the compiler. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 27 In order for the computer to change the operation mode based on the signal type and subsequent DSP processing...
Technical Background
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... A/V receivers reflect the lessons learned in two decades of ES Series decoding, Digital Signal Processing, control and integration technologies. • Silver cascade design (DA3100ES and higher). These models have the full complement of ES Series refinements and improvements. Delays the audio by up ). The feature adapts the reproduction to bring your television and your home theater speakers back into 5.1 channel surround sound plus a stereo...
... A/V receivers reflect the lessons learned in two decades of ES Series decoding, Digital Signal Processing, control and integration technologies. • Silver cascade design (DA3100ES and higher). These models have the full complement of ES Series refinements and improvements. Delays the audio by up ). The feature adapts the reproduction to bring your television and your home theater speakers back into 5.1 channel surround sound plus a stereo...
Technical Background
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... destined to be flexibly assigned to any video input, providing greater versatility when connecting a second DVD player, an HDTV tuner or other digital video source component. • A/B speaker terminals (all models). The ports also enable future firmware upgrades. • Front optical digital audio input (all models). Conclusion Beginning with third-party room automation systems, these receivers also accept optical digital audio, in custom installations where curtains, screens and lighting "scenes" may require 12-volt triggers. • Infrared...
... destined to be flexibly assigned to any video input, providing greater versatility when connecting a second DVD player, an HDTV tuner or other digital video source component. • A/B speaker terminals (all models). The ports also enable future firmware upgrades. • Front optical digital audio input (all models). Conclusion Beginning with third-party room automation systems, these receivers also accept optical digital audio, in custom installations where curtains, screens and lighting "scenes" may require 12-volt triggers. • Infrared...
Technical Background
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... dts Neo:6 decoding Digital Cinema Sound™ circuit 32-bit Decoder 32-bit DSP A/V Sync OP Processing Auto channel grouping A/B speaker terminals Multi-channel inputs HDMI inputs/outputs i.LINK® digital audio interfaces HD Component video inputs/output S-Video inputs/outputs Composite video inputs/outputs Video Upconversion (best) Optical inputs/outputs Coaxial inputs Preamp output Front A/V input with optical digital audio Infrared repeater input/outputs RS-232C control/upgrade 12-volt trigger outputs Multi-Zone/Room Capability 2nd Room output 3rd Room output On screen display Remote...
... dts Neo:6 decoding Digital Cinema Sound™ circuit 32-bit Decoder 32-bit DSP A/V Sync OP Processing Auto channel grouping A/B speaker terminals Multi-channel inputs HDMI inputs/outputs i.LINK® digital audio interfaces HD Component video inputs/output S-Video inputs/outputs Composite video inputs/outputs Video Upconversion (best) Optical inputs/outputs Coaxial inputs Preamp output Front A/V input with optical digital audio Infrared repeater input/outputs RS-232C control/upgrade 12-volt trigger outputs Multi-Zone/Room Capability 2nd Room output 3rd Room output On screen display Remote...