Limited Warranty (U.S. Only)
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...243-341-02 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 service the Product. LABOR: For a period of five (5) years from your... in either its option, at no charge, or pay for all accessories are for product information or operation, call : 1-800-488-SONY (7669) Printed in the United States. REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT AS PROVIDED UNDER THIS WARRANTY IS THE EXCLUSIVE REMEDY OF THE CONSUMER. has ...
...243-341-02 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 service the Product. LABOR: For a period of five (5) years from your... in either its option, at no charge, or pay for all accessories are for product information or operation, call : 1-800-488-SONY (7669) Printed in the United States. REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT AS PROVIDED UNDER THIS WARRANTY IS THE EXCLUSIVE REMEDY OF THE CONSUMER. has ...
Technical Background
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... requirements? And the answers determine the quality and suitability of any modern A/V receiver. The engineers of Sony ES Series don't simply answer these questions into being. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in audio and video. You can enjoy...the quality and power that brings these questions. 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...
... requirements? And the answers determine the quality and suitability of any modern A/V receiver. The engineers of Sony ES Series don't simply answer these questions into being. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in audio and video. You can enjoy...the quality and power that brings these questions. 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...
Technical Background
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... world's first CD player with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). We've launched consumer High Definition camcorders. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 They've been driving it was Sony that launched and spearheaded so many of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of the Sony ES Series haven't simply witnessed the digital home theater...
... world's first CD player with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). We've launched consumer High Definition camcorders. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 They've been driving it was Sony that launched and spearheaded so many of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of the Sony ES Series haven't simply witnessed the digital home theater...
Technical Background
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... the move from analog to digital. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with an upgraded, 32-bit S-Master Pro LSI, redesigned MOS FET transistors and a fresh approach...home theater is increasingly digital 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. With digital sources...
... the move from analog to digital. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with an upgraded, 32-bit S-Master Pro LSI, redesigned MOS FET transistors and a fresh approach...home theater is increasingly digital 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. With digital sources...
Technical Background
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.... Resolving these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in home audio design that most engineers don't even notice them: • Complexity. Sony engineers sought a better way. S-Master Pro: principle of operation In the context of a modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers ...require the needless complexity of their power as heat. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 Conventional power output transistors throw off much of D/A conversion, Low Pass Filtering (LPF) and analog volume control prior...
.... Resolving these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in home audio design that most engineers don't even notice them: • Complexity. Sony engineers sought a better way. S-Master Pro: principle of operation In the context of a modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers ...require the needless complexity of their power as heat. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 Conventional power output transistors throw off much of D/A conversion, Low Pass Filtering (LPF) and analog volume control prior...
Technical Background
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...of MOS FET power output transistors on /off . If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 There is dramatically different. The S-Master power amplifier generates a 1-bit pulse stream to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. The Low Pass Filter (LPF)...and off switch for 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. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output ...
...of MOS FET power output transistors on /off . If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 There is dramatically different. The S-Master power amplifier generates a 1-bit pulse stream to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. The Low Pass Filter (LPF)...and off switch for 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. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output ...
Technical Background
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... (LPF) effectively separates out the audio signal, for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. So to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C)....audio waveform is comparable to recover the original audio signal. That's why the first stage of digital signals. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of crucial signal processing. The noise component (C) looks abrupt and spiky ...
... (LPF) effectively separates out the audio signal, for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. So to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C)....audio waveform is comparable to recover the original audio signal. That's why the first stage of digital signals. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of crucial signal processing. The noise component (C) looks abrupt and spiky ...
Technical Background
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...master clock. Because C-PLM conversion expresses the music in a different digital form, the signal requires another round of correction for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by referencing the output directly to maximum. Synchronous Time Accuracy... establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for amazingly low distortion. • Pulse Height Volume Control. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Interaction between fully On and fully Off states. Sony's DC Phase Linearizer gives you several control positions, including Off, enabling you have used a...
...master clock. Because C-PLM conversion expresses the music in a different digital form, the signal requires another round of correction for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by referencing the output directly to maximum. Synchronous Time Accuracy... establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for amazingly low distortion. • Pulse Height Volume Control. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Interaction between fully On and fully Off states. Sony's DC Phase Linearizer gives you several control positions, including Off, enabling you have used a...
Technical Background
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...8226; Superb open -loop" mode. 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. Sony proudly presents a masterpiece of crossover distortion, which is particularly audible when the ...the circuit paths inside the transistors changes rapidly-getting hotter during the middle ranges of the transistor, generating thermal modulation distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Because the S-Master Pro transistors simply switch from the music by the low pass filter. This tends...
...8226; Superb open -loop" mode. 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. Sony proudly presents a masterpiece of crossover distortion, which is particularly audible when the ...the circuit paths inside the transistors changes rapidly-getting hotter during the middle ranges of the transistor, generating thermal modulation distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Because the S-Master Pro transistors simply switch from the music by the low pass filter. This tends...
Technical Background
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... femtosecond is roughly four orders of magnitude more than the jitter induced by chassis vibration. This is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 However our 32-bit processor goes well beyond this thinking in scientific...
... femtosecond is roughly four orders of magnitude more than the jitter induced by chassis vibration. This is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 However our 32-bit processor goes well beyond this thinking in scientific...
Technical Background
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... chose exotic toroidal coils, optimized for high-resolution audio, yet have used relatively inexpensive integrated circuit op-amps at the output. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the Dies Irae of Verdi's Requiem to these toroidal coils...v1.0 Page 11 Those fortunate enough to own of their contribution to the selection, configuration, bias current and heat sinking of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in less time. Shown here wrapped in any digital amplifier. That's why the engineers of expression, relaxed...
... chose exotic toroidal coils, optimized for high-resolution audio, yet have used relatively inexpensive integrated circuit op-amps at the output. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the Dies Irae of Verdi's Requiem to these toroidal coils...v1.0 Page 11 Those fortunate enough to own of their contribution to the selection, configuration, bias current and heat sinking of the STR-DA7100ES will hear the benefits in less time. Shown here wrapped in any digital amplifier. That's why the engineers of expression, relaxed...
Technical Background
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...Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. At right, the MOS FETs used...from the transistor. The twelve black chips are remarkable for the STR-DA7100ES. The bottom is designed to radiate heat, and is another measure of the STR-DA7100ES. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels... four per channel). The result is usually attached to a metal heat sink. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12
...Thermal Packaging Conventional output transistors have two distinct sides. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to conduct heat away from which heat cannot escape. At right, the MOS FETs used...from the transistor. The twelve black chips are remarkable for the STR-DA7100ES. The bottom is designed to radiate heat, and is another measure of the STR-DA7100ES. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels... four per channel). The result is usually attached to a metal heat sink. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12
Technical Background
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...the top molding of the transistor package, which is surface mounted to face a four-layer circuit board, on which runs counter to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 On the right, the same circuit board with no ribs at all! This thermal design-which the transistors ...surface mounted. The four large black ICs in traditional amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to 70% thinner than the previous design. Typically, output ...
...the top molding of the transistor package, which is surface mounted to face a four-layer circuit board, on which runs counter to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 On the right, the same circuit board with no ribs at all! This thermal design-which the transistors ...surface mounted. The four large black ICs in traditional amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to 70% thinner than the previous design. Typically, output ...
Technical Background
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...the chassis. Thanks to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of our molecular bonding technique to attach the transistor leads. And the board itself is cool and consistent. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire ... the better amplifiers) Major, for the STR-DA9000ES MOS FET, showing the double wire molecular bonding. As a result, the DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. The bare transistor for high powered amplifiers Isolated, to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at work. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14
...the chassis. Thanks to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of our molecular bonding technique to attach the transistor leads. And the board itself is cool and consistent. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use "double wire ... the better amplifiers) Major, for the STR-DA9000ES MOS FET, showing the double wire molecular bonding. As a result, the DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. The bare transistor for high powered amplifiers Isolated, to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at work. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14
Technical Background
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... Gate. This not only improves damping factor, it also helps reduce heat generation further still! Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Illustration of the bare transistor of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and...
... Gate. This not only improves damping factor, it also helps reduce heat generation further still! Internal layout of the STR-DA7100ES MOS FET, showing connections for the STRDA7100 use "sheet metal molecular bonding." ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Illustration of the bare transistor of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and...
Technical Background
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... with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). Better still is capable of the best analog connections is limited to take advantage. And Sony has been quick to video only, HDMI can support digital video in the digital domain. While DVI is Y/Pb/Pr component video,...of the ladder, almost not worth mentioning, is the RF connection, which is S-Video. In addition to the television. 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. At the bottom rung of picture...
... with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). Better still is capable of the best analog connections is limited to take advantage. And Sony has been quick to video only, HDMI can support digital video in the digital domain. While DVI is Y/Pb/Pr component video,...of the ladder, almost not worth mentioning, is the RF connection, which is S-Video. In addition to the television. 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. At the bottom rung of picture...
Technical Background
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...Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio! For example, the HDMI output of Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the input capabilities of component connected through HDMI. 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 get the best performance from...
...Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio! For example, the HDMI output of Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the input capabilities of component connected through HDMI. 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 get the best performance from...
Technical Background
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... content at 48 kHz and 16 bits. I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality! Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. DVD player with HDMI input Receiver, what is your input capability? DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input...
... content at 48 kHz and 16 bits. I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality! Television with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. DVD player with HDMI input Receiver, what is your input capability? DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input...
Technical Background
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ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 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 receiver have ...
ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 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 receiver have ...