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May 25, 2005 ES Series Receivers Technical Background Version 1.1;
May 25, 2005 ES Series Receivers Technical Background Version 1.1;
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...it all, decoding it all and reproducing all those sources, preserving audio and video in their most pristine form? 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 ...pack all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. How do you anticipate multi-room and custom installation requirements? A new generation of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in audio and video. The engineers of amplification in home theater design with three crucial advantages: • ...
...it all, decoding it all and reproducing all those sources, preserving audio and video in their most pristine form? 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 ...pack all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. How do you anticipate multi-room and custom installation requirements? A new generation of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in audio and video. The engineers of amplification in home theater design with three crucial advantages: • ...
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...TA-E1000ESD, 1989). • The world's first A/V receiver with a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in home entertainment: • The world's first CD player with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). We've launched consumer High Definition camcorders. And in HDTVs. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 Sony... it forward. 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 ...
...TA-E1000ESD, 1989). • The world's first A/V receiver with a digital input for Super Audio CD signals (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). • Digital amplification in home entertainment: • The world's first CD player with switching and output (STR-DA9000ES, 2003). We've launched consumer High Definition camcorders. And in HDTVs. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 Sony... it forward. 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 ...
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... equipment. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in 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. With digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was...so, some observers were surprised in Hollywood through the distribution channels, to the digital inputs and digital signal processing 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 ...
... equipment. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in 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. With digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was...so, some observers were surprised in Hollywood through the distribution channels, to the digital inputs and digital signal processing 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 ...
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... mainstream of D/A conversion, Low Pass Filtering (LPF) and analog volume control prior to amplification. • Heat generation. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal paths and chasing down transient distortions.... context of digital amplifier technology. Why Digital Amplification? Resolving these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 The Negative Feedback (NFB) used to a new generation of today's home theater receivers, you ...
... mainstream of D/A conversion, Low Pass Filtering (LPF) and analog volume control prior to amplification. • Heat generation. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal paths and chasing down transient distortions.... context of digital amplifier technology. Why Digital Amplification? Resolving these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 The Negative Feedback (NFB) used to a new generation of today's home theater receivers, you ...
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...digital until the last possible instant. 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 S-Master power amplifier generates a 1-bit pulse stream to provide the wattage that... Sony developed for the power supply voltage. The output transistors act like an on and off switch for Super Audio CD. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The Low Pass Filter (LPF) converts the ...
...digital until the last possible instant. 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 S-Master power amplifier generates a 1-bit pulse stream to provide the wattage that... Sony developed for the power supply voltage. The output transistors act like an on and off switch for Super Audio CD. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The Low Pass Filter (LPF) converts the ...
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...of digital signals. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is simple in principle, the fidelity of each pulse exactly right. That is comparable to the requirements for extremely... accurate music reproduction. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 The Low Pass Filter (LPF) effectively separates out the audio signal, for Super Audio CD playback. This...
...of digital signals. This combines two components, the original audio signal (B) and a noise component (C). Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is simple in principle, the fidelity of each pulse exactly right. That is comparable to the requirements for extremely... accurate music reproduction. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 The Low Pass Filter (LPF) effectively separates out the audio signal, for Super Audio CD playback. This...
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...PLM effectively controls the distortion, maintaining the integrity of the original musical signal is maintained. • Low heat generation. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Digital signals remain in the digital domain until the last possible moment. 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 restored. • DC Phase Linearizer (DCPL). The purity ...
...PLM effectively controls the distortion, maintaining the integrity of the original musical signal is maintained. • Low heat generation. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Digital signals remain in the digital domain until the last possible moment. 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 restored. • DC Phase Linearizer (DCPL). The purity ...
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.... Conventional power amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). In this new freedom in very high resolution, against a background of integrated circuitry, Sony's CXD9773Q Large Scale Integrated circuit (LSI). Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial distortion in "open -loop performance. Dynamics are powerful but not... directly. Because the S-Master Pro amplifier uses pulse density, the output transistors do not generate the waveform. Music is soft. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 This tends to full-off. o With this way, the system is immune to crossover distortion, even...
.... Conventional power amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). In this new freedom in very high resolution, against a background of integrated circuitry, Sony's CXD9773Q Large Scale Integrated circuit (LSI). Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial distortion in "open -loop performance. Dynamics are powerful but not... directly. Because the S-Master Pro amplifier uses pulse density, the output transistors do not generate the waveform. Music is soft. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 This tends to full-off. o With this way, the system is immune to crossover distortion, even...
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...sampled at the 48 kHz sampling rate is fairly precise. Our 24-bit processor achieved a theoretical accuracy 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 40 femtoseconds is improved from ...say that the 32-bit Clean Data Cycle reduces jitter to equal one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 This is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. Internal dynamic range at 8 fs, the internal dynamic range improves from 180 ...
...sampled at the 48 kHz sampling rate is fairly precise. Our 24-bit processor achieved a theoretical accuracy 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 40 femtoseconds is improved from ...say that the 32-bit Clean Data Cycle reduces jitter to equal one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 This is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. Internal dynamic range at 8 fs, the internal dynamic range improves from 180 ...
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...cylinder-type coils, the ES engineers chose exotic toroidal coils, optimized for high-resolution audio, yet have used relatively inexpensive integrated circuit op-amps at the output. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to a higher level of Sony ES selected the filter parts ...carefully and methodically. In this way, Sony has taken the critically-acclaimed S-Master Pro amplifier to contain the...
...cylinder-type coils, the ES engineers chose exotic toroidal coils, optimized for high-resolution audio, yet have used relatively inexpensive integrated circuit op-amps at the output. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to a higher level of Sony ES selected the filter parts ...carefully and methodically. In this way, Sony has taken the critically-acclaimed S-Master Pro amplifier to contain the...
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... signal integrity. The twelve black chips are remarkable for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for far better dissipation of heat. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured ... plastic, from the transistor. The result is usually attached to 3 mm thick. Consider the packaging. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to a metal heat sink. No matter how much cooling may be available at the...
... signal integrity. The twelve black chips are remarkable for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for far better dissipation of heat. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured ... plastic, from the transistor. The result is usually attached to 3 mm thick. Consider the packaging. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to a metal heat sink. No matter how much cooling may be available at the...
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... in position. The transistor is now 80% thinner than the transistors used for traditional amplifiers. Even more important is the top molding of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. The four large black ICs in traditional amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of the transistor ...STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. The plastic itself is a resin of high thermal conductivity, designed from the outset to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 Typically, output transistors generate so much heat that they need to encourage the flow of the heat sink.
... in position. The transistor is now 80% thinner than the transistors used for traditional amplifiers. Even more important is the top molding of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. The four large black ICs in traditional amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of the transistor ...STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. The plastic itself is a resin of high thermal conductivity, designed from the outset to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 Typically, output transistors generate so much heat that they need to encourage the flow of the heat sink.
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...fins made of die cast aluminum (on the better amplifiers) Major, for high powered amplifiers Isolated, to protect other circuits from other circuits. 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... makes the most sense for the shortest possible signal paths Short, simple and straight Molecular Bonding Even inside the MOS FET output transistors, Sony innovations are located where the circuit topology is shortest and simplest-lined up side-by-side, right in the middle of the DA7100ES chassis...
...fins made of die cast aluminum (on the better amplifiers) Major, for high powered amplifiers Isolated, to protect other circuits from other circuits. 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... makes the most sense for the shortest possible signal paths Short, simple and straight Molecular Bonding Even inside the MOS FET output transistors, Sony innovations are located where the circuit topology is shortest and simplest-lined up side-by-side, right in the middle of the DA7100ES chassis...
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ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Illustration of the bare transistor of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Also current ...
ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Illustration of the bare transistor of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Also current ...
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... (HDMI). This greatly simplifies system set-up, replacing as many as TV Channel 3 or 4. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 Far better is S-Video. Established in the digital domain. And Sony has been quick to providing 480p, 720p or 1080i, the HDMI output of the ladder, almost ...is the RF connection, which is Y/Pb/Pr component video, which conveys a home video signal to the television. At the bottom rung 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...
... (HDMI). This greatly simplifies system set-up, replacing as many as TV Channel 3 or 4. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 16 Far better is S-Video. Established in the digital domain. And Sony has been quick to providing 480p, 720p or 1080i, the HDMI output of the ladder, almost ...is the RF connection, which is Y/Pb/Pr component video, which conveys a home video signal to the television. At the bottom rung 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...
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... choose the highest performance audio and video formats that would mean a tenth cable. I 'm a television. 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 digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby ... as well, that the source and target components both video and audio with HDMI output Hi. In addition, a source component (such as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can support a full range of product next to Y/Cb/Cr? Consider what happens when you may wonder whether ...
... choose the highest performance audio and video formats that would mean a tenth cable. I 'm a television. 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 digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby ... as well, that the source and target components both video and audio with HDMI output Hi. In addition, a source component (such as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can support a full range of product next to Y/Cb/Cr? Consider what happens when you may wonder whether ...
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... entire system. The receiver must then communicate with HDMI input I can output those signals. DVD player with HDMI input Receiver, what is your input capability? ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 DVD player with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. The receiver automatically passes through the...
... entire system. The receiver must then communicate with HDMI input I can output those signals. DVD player with HDMI input Receiver, what is your input capability? ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 DVD player with HDMI input Thank you insert the STR-DA7100ES into the reproduction chain. The receiver automatically passes through the...
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... the receiver communicate back to the source component? The receiver itself . Two settings on the highest capability that the television and receiver have in common. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of the receiver itself can...
... the receiver communicate back to the source component? The receiver itself . Two settings on the highest capability that the television and receiver have in common. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Now the receiver has two sets of the receiver itself can...
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... [ 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...
... [ 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...