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..., dts® ES discrete 6.1 and dts Neo6:cinema. You can listen to advance at breakneck speed. 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. At the heart of any... questions are daunting. The engineers of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in part to this single component is challenged as nine speakers. How do you pack all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark...
..., dts® ES discrete 6.1 and dts Neo6:cinema. You can listen to advance at breakneck speed. 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. At the heart of any... questions are daunting. The engineers of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in part to this single component is challenged as nine speakers. How do you pack all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark...
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... two DVI inputs with a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in HDTVs. And in Japan, we marketed the world's first Blu-ray Disc™ High Definition recorder. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to create landmarks in home entertainment: • The world's first...
... two DVI inputs with a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in HDTVs. And in Japan, we marketed the world's first Blu-ray Disc™ High Definition recorder. Sony's latest A/V receivers are worthy successors, bringing this heritage to create landmarks in home entertainment: • The world's first...
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Not content with establishing a new benchmark in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. Process S-Master Generation Introduction Technologies First 2001 • Clean Data Cycle • C-... MOS FET Output Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Even so, some observers were surprised in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with ...
Not content with establishing a new benchmark in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. Process S-Master Generation Introduction Technologies First 2001 • Clean Data Cycle • C-... MOS FET Output Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Even so, some observers were surprised in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with ...
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... bad for electronics. • Thermal modulation distortion. Resolving these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. Sony engineers sought a better way. But great strides in transistor performance! After decades of engineering practice, the limitations and awkward .... In the context of their power as heat. Conventional power output transistors throw off much of today's home theater receivers, you have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." Conventional transistor pairs create crossover distortion, which in turn...
... bad for electronics. • Thermal modulation distortion. Resolving these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. Sony engineers sought a better way. But great strides in transistor performance! After decades of engineering practice, the limitations and awkward .... In the context of their power as heat. Conventional power output transistors throw off much of today's home theater receivers, you have become so familiar that they're considered "inevitable." Conventional transistor pairs create crossover distortion, which in turn...
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...in common with the Direct Stream Digital signal that drives the speakers. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is better. In this way, the signal remains digital until the last possible instant. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The signal must run through a single Low Pass Filter ...to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. Instead, the amplifier accepts all digital signals directly, ...
...in common with the Direct Stream Digital signal that drives the speakers. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is better. In this way, the signal remains digital until the last possible instant. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The signal must run through a single Low Pass Filter ...to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. Instead, the amplifier accepts all digital signals directly, ...
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... pulses are high. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to the original A/D converter at the pulses, you need to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. The noise component (C) looks abrupt and spiky because the frequencies are mostly 0. This combines... separates out the audio signal, for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of digital signals. In ES...
... pulses are high. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to the original A/D converter at the pulses, you need to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. The noise component (C) looks abrupt and spiky because the frequencies are mostly 0. This combines... separates out the audio signal, for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of digital signals. In ES...
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...digital form, the signal requires another round of detail. Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT), originally developed for time-base errors. Sony's Pulse Height Volume control adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage to adjust ...the distortion, maintaining the integrity of digital source material is maintained from phase linearity at nearly maximum thermal efficiency. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Because this method does not modify or reshape the original digital samples, there's no loss of information, no...
...digital form, the signal requires another round of detail. Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT), originally developed for time-base errors. Sony's Pulse Height Volume control adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage to adjust ...the distortion, maintaining the integrity of digital source material is maintained from phase linearity at nearly maximum thermal efficiency. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Because this method does not modify or reshape the original digital samples, there's no loss of information, no...
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... Compact Disc that makes the most sense. Music is inefficient. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 That's why analog amps use separate transistors 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 silky silence. Unfortunately...
... Compact Disc that makes the most sense. Music is inefficient. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 That's why analog amps use separate transistors 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 silky silence. Unfortunately...
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...billion femtoseconds to equal one full second as many femtoseconds in 30 million years! 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 , to an accuracy of a metal crystal. The new ...CXD9773Q goes much further, with Clean Data Cycle. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 Stated another way, there are as there are sampled at 8 fs, the internal dynamic range improves from 180 dB ...
...billion femtoseconds to equal one full second as many femtoseconds in 30 million years! 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 , to an accuracy of a metal crystal. The new ...CXD9773Q goes much further, with Clean Data Cycle. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 Stated another way, there are as there are sampled at 8 fs, the internal dynamic range improves from 180 dB ...
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... to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Instead of their output devices. But their design, digital amplifiers are extremely sensitive to the meteor impacts of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in any digital amplifier. MOS FET ...to contain the DC Phase Linearizer, this way, the filter has a major influence on sound quality. • Built in less time. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to a higher level of expression, relaxed listening hour after the best possible sound. The process is more...
... to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Instead of their output devices. But their design, digital amplifiers are extremely sensitive to the meteor impacts of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in any digital amplifier. MOS FET ...to contain the DC Phase Linearizer, this way, the filter has a major influence on sound quality. • Built in less time. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to a higher level of expression, relaxed listening hour after the best possible sound. The process is more...
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...cooling may be available at the top, the plastic package is too thick to a metal heat sink. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of signal integrity. The top is usually ...to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to 3 mm thick. MOS FET Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides. ... transistor. The result is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. At right, the MOS FETs used in the DA7100ES is another measure of the...
...cooling may be available at the top, the plastic package is too thick to a metal heat sink. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of signal integrity. The top is usually ...to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to 3 mm thick. MOS FET Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides. ... transistor. The result is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. At right, the MOS FETs used in the DA7100ES is another measure of the...
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...DA9000ES. Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with many ribs to 70% thinner than the previous design. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to radiate the heat, the STRDA7100ES can use a single, simple sheet of metal with no... top molding of the transistor package, which the transistors are surface mounted. The transistor is surface mounted to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. The four large black ICs in position. Typically, output transistors generate so...
...DA9000ES. Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with many ribs to 70% thinner than the previous design. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to radiate the heat, the STRDA7100ES can use a single, simple sheet of metal with no... top molding of the transistor package, which the transistors are surface mounted. The transistor is surface mounted to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. The four large black ICs in position. Typically, output transistors generate so...
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... itself is located in the middle of the power amplifier circuit board. Operation is less exposed to attach the transistor leads. Sony uses a new refinement of current. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding wires, each rated for 15 amps of our ... current supply of metal 70% smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES amplifier section is some 70% smaller than analog amps of comparable power Wherever it makes the most sense for ...
... itself is located in the middle of the power amplifier circuit board. Operation is less exposed to attach the transistor leads. Sony uses a new refinement of current. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire molecular bonding" with two bonding wires, each rated for 15 amps of our ... current supply of metal 70% smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES amplifier section is some 70% smaller than analog amps of comparable power Wherever it makes the most sense for ...
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... the DA9000ES. Sheet metal molecular bonding provides the Source connection at 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Building on the bottom of the FET is die...
... the DA9000ES. Sheet metal molecular bonding provides the Source connection at 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." Building on the bottom of the FET is die...
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... and switching Home video connections represent a definite hierarchy of the DVI digital interface. Better still is the composite video connection. And Sony has been quick to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). On the right, an optional DVI-to-HDMI adaptor...
... and switching Home video connections represent a definite hierarchy of the DVI digital interface. Better still is the composite video connection. And Sony has been quick to the STR-DA7100ES receiver, Now the STR-DA7100 goes a giant step further with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). On the right, an optional DVI-to-HDMI adaptor...
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... you connect an HDMI equipped DVD player to it (such as an HDMI equipped television or A/V receiver). ES Receivers v1.0 Television with HDMI output Hi. If you wanted digital audio as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can support a full range of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM...information-they "introduce themselves." DVD player with HDMI input Hi. 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 needed nine cables to automatically confirm the type of ...
... you connect an HDMI equipped DVD player to it (such as an HDMI equipped television or A/V receiver). ES Receivers v1.0 Television with HDMI output Hi. If you wanted digital audio as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can support a full range of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM...information-they "introduce themselves." DVD player with HDMI input Hi. 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 needed nine cables to automatically confirm the type of ...
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... and video-and then automatically transfer content at 48 kHz and 16 bits. DVD player with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. In this illustration, the television is your input capability? In the case of this case, the... component DVD player can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality! The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements back to the next component in the chain, the receiver. Television with HDMI output What is your input capability? Next, the components communicate ...
... and video-and then automatically transfer content at 48 kHz and 16 bits. DVD player with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. In this illustration, the television is your input capability? In the case of this case, the... component DVD player can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality! The receiver automatically passes through the television's video requirements back to the next component in the chain, the receiver. Television with HDMI output What is your input capability? Next, the components communicate ...
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...? The question: which of these requirements will typically be limited by the television to 2-channel sound. Two settings on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which chooses the audio based on the highest capability that the television and...at somewhat more modest quality. As 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 Digital Video 720p Video capability of television Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Digital ...
...? The question: which of these requirements will typically be limited by the television to 2-channel sound. Two settings on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which chooses the audio based on the highest capability that the television and...at somewhat more modest quality. As 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 Digital Video 720p Video capability of television Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Digital ...
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... HDMI 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. HDMI AUDIO [ AMP ] DVD player with HDMI output...
... HDMI 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. HDMI AUDIO [ AMP ] DVD player with HDMI output...