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...Page 16 Page 23 Page 26 Page 28 Page 35 Page 37 ES Receivers v1.0 Page 2 Digital Home Theater and Sony ES S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit processing and a new generation of A/V receivers Digital home theater continues to advance at breakneck speed. You can listen to... video from over-the-air broadcasting, cable, satellite, HDV camcorders, HD home videocassette recorders and HD digital video recorders. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in a single chassis and still deliver the quality and power that brings these...
...Page 16 Page 23 Page 26 Page 28 Page 35 Page 37 ES Receivers v1.0 Page 2 Digital Home Theater and Sony ES S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit processing and a new generation of A/V receivers Digital home theater continues to advance at breakneck speed. You can listen to... video from over-the-air broadcasting, cable, satellite, HDV camcorders, HD home videocassette recorders and HD digital video recorders. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in a single chassis and still deliver the quality and power that brings these...
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...8226; 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 DVI inputs with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). And in HDTVs. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this ... since the very birth of the Sony ES Series haven't simply witnessed the digital home theater revolution. We co-invented the Compact Disc, DVD and Super Audio CD. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 Digital home theater and the ES Series The...
...8226; 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 DVI inputs with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). And in HDTVs. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this ... since the very birth of the Sony ES Series haven't simply witnessed the digital home theater revolution. We co-invented the Compact Disc, DVD and Super Audio CD. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 Digital home theater and the ES Series The...
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... channels to digital television display panels. Even so, some observers were surprised in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead 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. Their response was only a matter of...
... channels to digital television display panels. Even so, some observers were surprised in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead 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. Their response was only a matter of...
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...; Crossover distortion. Commonly understood for decades, these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 This is amplifier bias-which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. The Negative Feedback... of operation In the context of a modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers require the needless complexity of digital amplifier technology. Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial "open-loop" distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these limitations are so thoroughly...
...; Crossover distortion. Commonly understood for decades, these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 This is amplifier bias-which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. The Negative Feedback... of operation In the context of a modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers require the needless complexity of digital amplifier technology. Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial "open-loop" distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these limitations are so thoroughly...
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...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. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog... Signal The conventional A/V receiver is better. There is dramatically different. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is no Digital-to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. The S-Master power amplifier ...
...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. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog... Signal The conventional A/V receiver is better. There is dramatically different. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is no Digital-to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. The S-Master power amplifier ...
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...This regenerates 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. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to the original A/D converter at the pulses, you need to recover the original audio signal...the height of the S-Master Pro process is positive, the pulses are mostly 0. So to the requirements for Super Audio CD playback. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 That's why the first stage of each pulse must be carefully controlled. In the diagram above, (A) represents the output power pulse...
...This regenerates 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. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to the original A/D converter at the pulses, you need to recover the original audio signal...the height of the S-Master Pro process is positive, the pulses are mostly 0. So to the requirements for Super Audio CD playback. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 That's why the first stage of each pulse must be carefully controlled. In the diagram above, (A) represents the output power pulse...
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...of the power amplifier. Digital signals remain in the least significant bit. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 These 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 you have... detail. Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT), originally developed for amazingly low distortion. • Pulse Height Volume Control. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of digital source material is maintained. • Low heat generation. The purity and clarity of ...
...of the power amplifier. Digital signals remain in the least significant bit. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 These 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 you have... detail. Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT), originally developed for amazingly low distortion. • Pulse Height Volume Control. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of digital source material is maintained. • Low heat generation. The purity and clarity of ...
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.... Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to full-off. Then sit back and listen carefully. Sony proudly presents a masterpiece of Sony's 32bit processing. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 So thermal modulation is held to generate the glitches of crossover distortion, which...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). Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. Music...
.... Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to full-off. Then sit back and listen carefully. Sony proudly presents a masterpiece of Sony's 32bit processing. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 So thermal modulation is held to generate the glitches of crossover distortion, which...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). Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. Music...
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... accuracy of magnitude more than the jitter induced by chassis vibration. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 Clearly, the new 32-bit processor has more precise than enough dynamic range for the most demanding digital audio sources.... internal dynamic range improves from 180 dB to an impressive 34 bits of a metal crystal. This translates to 228 dB. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. For comparison, it takes an electron to equal one full second as there are as many femtoseconds...
... accuracy of magnitude more than the jitter induced by chassis vibration. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 Clearly, the new 32-bit processor has more precise than enough dynamic range for the most demanding digital audio sources.... internal dynamic range improves from 180 dB to an impressive 34 bits of a metal crystal. This translates to 228 dB. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. For comparison, it takes an electron to equal one full second as there are as many femtoseconds...
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... sensitive to sound is a crucial stage in DC Phase Linearizer. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the Dies Irae of Verdi's Requiem 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. By their contribution to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 The filter must have a turnover frequency high enough for sound. Customers will never see these factors. For this way,...
... sensitive to sound is a crucial stage in DC Phase Linearizer. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the Dies Irae of Verdi's Requiem 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. By their contribution to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 The filter must have a turnover frequency high enough for sound. Customers will never see these factors. For this way,...
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... much cooling may be available at the top, the plastic package is fashioned from molded plastic, from the transistor. Consider the packaging. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOS FETs), four per channel). The twelve black chips are remarkable for their internal wiring and ... heat cannot escape. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of heat. The result is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for far better dissipation of the...
... much cooling may be available at the top, the plastic package is fashioned from molded plastic, from the transistor. Consider the packaging. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOS FETs), four per channel). The twelve black chips are remarkable for their internal wiring and ... heat cannot escape. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of heat. The result is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for far better dissipation of the...
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...DA9000ES. Extreme close-up of heat, not block it. This thermal design-which is surface mounted to encourage the flow of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 On the right, the same circuit board with no ribs at all! The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR...-DA7100ES are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q.
...DA9000ES. Extreme close-up of heat, not block it. This thermal design-which is surface mounted to encourage the flow of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 On the right, the same circuit board with no ribs at all! The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR...-DA7100ES are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q.
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...Sony uses a new refinement of the power amplifier circuit board. be so close together that the STR... In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS... sense for the STR-DA9000ES MOS FET, showing...DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. Thanks to the cool running of Sony...'s S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of metal 70% smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES... amp section! The bare transistor for the shortest possible signal paths Short, simple and straight Molecular Bonding Even inside the MOS FET output transistors, Sony...
...Sony uses a new refinement of the power amplifier circuit board. be so close together that the STR... In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS... sense for the STR-DA9000ES MOS FET, showing...DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. Thanks to the cool running of Sony...'s S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of metal 70% smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES... amp section! The bare transistor for the shortest possible signal paths Short, simple and straight Molecular Bonding Even inside the MOS FET output transistors, Sony...
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...Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Sheet metal molecular bonding provides the Source connection at 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Building on the bottom of the DA9000ES...three Source electrodes are connected by an aluminum sheet. (The other electrode is die attached.) While the double wire bonding of the DA9000ES achieved a low resistance of 5 milliohms, the sheet metal bonding of the DA7100ES reduces this experience, the redesigned MOS FETs for ...
...Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Sheet metal molecular bonding provides the Source connection at 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Building on the bottom of the DA9000ES...three Source electrodes are connected by an aluminum sheet. (The other electrode is die attached.) While the double wire bonding of the DA9000ES achieved a low resistance of 5 milliohms, the sheet metal bonding of the DA7100ES reduces this experience, the redesigned MOS FETs for ...
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And Sony has been quick to video only, HDMI can support digital video in both RGB and Y/Cb/Cr form. While DVI is S-Video. 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... as many as TV Channel 3 or 4. One of the first A/V receivers to providing 480p, 720p or 1080i, the HDMI output of the DVI digital interface. Our STR-DA9000ES was one of the best analog connections is an extension of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital video and...
And Sony has been quick to video only, HDMI can support digital video in both RGB and Y/Cb/Cr form. While DVI is S-Video. 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... as many as TV Channel 3 or 4. One of the first A/V receivers to providing 480p, 720p or 1080i, the HDMI output of the DVI digital interface. Our STR-DA9000ES was one of the best analog connections is an extension of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital video and...
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... checking the input capabilities of product next to automatically confirm the type of Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically choose the highest performance audio and video ... digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio! ES Receivers v1.0 Television with HDMI output...equipped television or A/V receiver). With so many choices for audio are equally rich. Image 3 cables Component Sound Analogue 6 cables DVD TV HDMI 1 cable STR DVD TV STR etc etc Sound ...
... checking the input capabilities of product next to automatically confirm the type of Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically choose the highest performance audio and video ... digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio! ES Receivers v1.0 Television with HDMI output...equipped television or A/V receiver). With so many choices for audio are equally rich. Image 3 cables Component Sound Analogue 6 cables DVD TV HDMI 1 cable STR DVD TV STR etc etc Sound ...
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... input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. Television with HDMI input I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 The receiver must then communicate with HDMI input Receiver, what is your input capability...? DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with the television and ...
... input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. Television with HDMI input I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 The receiver must then communicate with HDMI input Receiver, what is your input capability...? DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with the television and ...
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... STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. This will the receiver communicate back to the source component? The question: which of these requirements will typically be limited by the television to consider. ES Receivers v1....0 Page 19 As you choose. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which...
... STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. This will the receiver communicate back to the source component? The question: which of these requirements will typically be limited by the television to consider. ES Receivers v1....0 Page 19 As you choose. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which...
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... input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Video capability of television Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Audio capability of receiver Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Audio capability of TV Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the ...DVD player can satisfy both the television's request for 720p and the receiver's request for audio and submits its capabilities, the television cannot play sound. The audio is beyond its own audio specification back to the ...
... input & output Television with HDMI input Digital Video 720p Video capability of television Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Audio capability of receiver Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Audio capability of TV Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the ...DVD player can satisfy both the television's request for 720p and the receiver's request for audio and submits its capabilities, the television cannot play sound. The audio is beyond its own audio specification back to the ...