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... Not content with establishing a new benchmark in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of Sony's ES Series continue to the digital inputs and digital signal processing of your A/V receiver... ahead with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. With digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit DSP ...C-PLM • S-TACT • Pulse Height Volume Control • Integrated DC Phase Linearizer • Discrete MOS FET Output Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 Fiercely...
... Not content with establishing a new benchmark in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of Sony's ES Series continue to the digital inputs and digital signal processing of your A/V receiver... ahead with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. With digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit DSP ...C-PLM • S-TACT • Pulse Height Volume Control • Integrated DC Phase Linearizer • Discrete MOS FET Output Transistors, redesigned cooling ES Receivers v1.0 Page 4 Fiercely...
Technical Background
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...Feedback (NFB) used to the input. This is amplifier bias-which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. Conventional transistor pairs create crossover distortion, which in turn cause changes in Large Scale Integration (LSI), 1-bit processing and faster MOS FET ...of their power as heat. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. Sony engineers sought a better way. Conventional power output transistors throw off much of traditional amplifiers have become so familiar that ...
...Feedback (NFB) used to the input. This is amplifier bias-which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. Conventional transistor pairs create crossover distortion, which in turn cause changes in Large Scale Integration (LSI), 1-bit processing and faster MOS FET ...of their power as heat. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these fundamental constraints by completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. Sony engineers sought a better way. Conventional power output transistors throw off much of traditional amplifiers have become so familiar that ...
Technical Background
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... generation. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the power amplifier. Most digital volume controls work by referencing the output directly ...to second-order harmonic distortion. Because this effect. • Complementary Pulse Length Modulation (C-PLM). Interaction between fully On and fully Off states. C-PLM effectively controls the distortion, maintaining the integrity of detail. This establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for Sony...
... generation. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the power amplifier. Most digital volume controls work by referencing the output directly ...to second-order harmonic distortion. Because this effect. • Complementary Pulse Length Modulation (C-PLM). Interaction between fully On and fully Off states. C-PLM effectively controls the distortion, maintaining the integrity of detail. This establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for Sony...
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...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). Because the S-Master Pro amplifier uses pulse density, the output transistors do not generate the waveform....fidelity without any negative feedback at all! Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. Music is rendered in locating the amplifier, the circuit paths inside the transistors changes rapidly-getting hotter during the middle ranges of ...
...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). Because the S-Master Pro amplifier uses pulse density, the output transistors do not generate the waveform....fidelity without any negative feedback at all! Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. Music is rendered in locating the amplifier, the circuit paths inside the transistors changes rapidly-getting hotter during the middle ranges of ...
Technical Background
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...exotic toroidal coils, optimized for high-resolution audio, yet have used relatively inexpensive integrated circuit op-amps at the output. Shown here wrapped in black, the toroidal coils of their design, digital amplifiers are more expensive. Toroidal Low Pass Filter The Low Pass Filter is more ... a second chip to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 The process is built right into Sony's 32-bit design. • Built in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. The filter must have a turnover frequency high enough for...
...exotic toroidal coils, optimized for high-resolution audio, yet have used relatively inexpensive integrated circuit op-amps at the output. Shown here wrapped in black, the toroidal coils of their design, digital amplifiers are more expensive. Toroidal Low Pass Filter The Low Pass Filter is more ... a second chip to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 The process is built right into Sony's 32-bit design. • Built in clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. The filter must have a turnover frequency high enough for...
Technical Background
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...is designed to a metal heat sink. No matter how much cooling may be available at the top, the plastic package is another measure of signal integrity. At right, the MOS FETs used in the DA7100ES is 1 mm thick or less, for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for ...their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of heat. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. ES Receivers v1...
...is designed to a metal heat sink. No matter how much cooling may be available at the top, the plastic package is another measure of signal integrity. At right, the MOS FETs used in the DA7100ES is 1 mm thick or less, for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for ...their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of heat. Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. ES Receivers v1...
Technical Background
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... levels that enables you to vary the volume setting in precise, 0.5 dB steps! Optimum Preamplification is made possible by Sony's proprietary CXD9725 integrated circuit. The latest version of the OP design controls volume with twice the resolution of our previous design-0.5 dB steps ...instead of volume control settings. Oversized filter capacitors Analog amplifiers depend heavily on the power supply filter capacitors. That's why Sony's STR-...
... levels that enables you to vary the volume setting in precise, 0.5 dB steps! Optimum Preamplification is made possible by Sony's proprietary CXD9725 integrated circuit. The latest version of the OP design controls volume with twice the resolution of our previous design-0.5 dB steps ...instead of volume control settings. Oversized filter capacitors Analog amplifiers depend heavily on the power supply filter capacitors. That's why Sony's STR-...
Technical Background
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... A/V Sync (DA2100 and up to 200 milliseconds, in two groups (SL and SR). Sony provides decoding for both 5.1- ES Receivers v1.0 Page 35 These models have the full complement of amplification (all models). and 6.1-channel sources. • Amplifier relocation (DA2100ES and higher). Enables you can drive separate Surround Back Left and Surround...-NS9100ES DVD player, DVP-NC555ES DVD changer, SCD-XA9000ES SA-CD player. • Seven channels of ES Series decoding, Digital Signal Processing, control and integration technologies. • Silver cascade design (DA3100ES and higher).
... A/V Sync (DA2100 and up to 200 milliseconds, in two groups (SL and SR). Sony provides decoding for both 5.1- ES Receivers v1.0 Page 35 These models have the full complement of amplification (all models). and 6.1-channel sources. • Amplifier relocation (DA2100ES and higher). Enables you can drive separate Surround Back Left and Surround...-NS9100ES DVD player, DVP-NC555ES DVD changer, SCD-XA9000ES SA-CD player. • Seven channels of ES Series decoding, Digital Signal Processing, control and integration technologies. • Silver cascade design (DA3100ES and higher).