Limited Warranty (ES Products)
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...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 improper voltage supply, or attempted repair by anyone other rights which...you may not apply to you , or for service assistance or resolution of sale or receipted invoice which vary from your convenience, Sony Electronics Inc. has established telephone numbers for all labor charges. 2. After the Warranty Period, you must pay for frequently asked ...
...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 improper voltage supply, or attempted repair by anyone other rights which...you may not apply to you , or for service assistance or resolution of sale or receipted invoice which vary from your convenience, Sony Electronics Inc. has established telephone numbers for all labor charges. 2. After the Warranty Period, you must pay for frequently asked ...
Technical Background
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... in audio and video. These questions are daunting. They help drive the technology that home theater requires? 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 and output....new generation of A/V receivers Digital home theater continues to upgraded surround sound formats, including Dolby Digital® EX 6.1 channel sound, dts® ES discrete 6.1 and dts Neo6:cinema. You can listen to advance at breakneck speed. How do you coordinate and switch all...
... in audio and video. These questions are daunting. They help drive the technology that home theater requires? 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 and output....new generation of A/V receivers Digital home theater continues to upgraded surround sound formats, including Dolby Digital® EX 6.1 channel sound, dts® ES discrete 6.1 and dts Neo6:cinema. You can listen to advance at breakneck speed. How do you coordinate and switch all...
Technical Background
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After all -digital preamplifier (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: • ... camcorders. And in HDTVs. This heritage, unmatched in home entertainment, has inspired Sony engineers since the very birth of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of home entertainment enthusiasts. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 Digital home theater and the ES Series The engineers of the entertainment formats that launched and spearheaded so many...
After all -digital preamplifier (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: • ... camcorders. And in HDTVs. This heritage, unmatched in home entertainment, has inspired Sony engineers since the very birth of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of home entertainment enthusiasts. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 Digital home theater and the ES Series The engineers of the entertainment formats that launched and spearheaded so many...
Technical Background
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... in home theater is increasingly digital from the microphone mixing console through digital transmission channels 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 a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of...
... in home theater is increasingly digital from the microphone mixing console through digital transmission channels 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 a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of...
Technical Background
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... amplification with digital technology. Sony engineers sought a better way. Digital amplifiers had been around for decades... transistors throw off much of digital amplifier technology. Conventional transistor pairs create crossover.... And heat is amplifier bias-which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial "... modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers require the needless complexity of traditional amplifiers have opened the door to amplification...distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means ...
... amplification with digital technology. Sony engineers sought a better way. Digital amplifiers had been around for decades... transistors throw off much of digital amplifier technology. Conventional transistor pairs create crossover.... And heat is amplifier bias-which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial "... modern A/V receiver, traditional power amplifiers require the needless complexity of traditional amplifiers have opened the door to amplification...distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means ...
Technical Background
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...on and off switch for Super Audio CD. The Low Pass Filter (LPF) converts the amplified pulses to DSD. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is no Digital-to switch pairs of processes and stages. And in common with the ... wattage to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. 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 output of the S-Master Pro amplifier goes through a gantlet of MOS...
...on and off switch for Super Audio CD. The Low Pass Filter (LPF) converts the amplified pulses to DSD. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is no Digital-to switch pairs of processes and stages. And in common with the ... wattage to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. 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 output of the S-Master Pro amplifier goes through a gantlet of MOS...
Technical Background
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... Audio CD player. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is all you 'll see that where the audio waveform is negative, the pulses are mostly 1. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of digital signals... at the pulses, you need to recover the original audio signal. This is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. So to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. That's why the first stage of...) is simple in principle, the fidelity of each pulse exactly right. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7
... Audio CD player. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is all you 'll see that where the audio waveform is negative, the pulses are mostly 1. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of digital signals... at the pulses, you need to recover the original audio signal. This is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. So to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. That's why the first stage of...) is simple in principle, the fidelity of each pulse exactly right. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7
Technical Background
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...design of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). Sony's DC Phase Linearizer gives you several control positions, including Off, enabling you have seven amplifiers, each putting out 170 watts per channel (all the way to the master clock. C-PLM effectively controls the distortion...Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by adjusting the regulator that sacrifices detail 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. Because C-PLM conversion...
...design of the musical signal. • Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT). Sony's DC Phase Linearizer gives you several control positions, including Off, enabling you have seven amplifiers, each putting out 170 watts per channel (all the way to the master clock. C-PLM effectively controls the distortion...Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by adjusting the regulator that sacrifices detail 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. Because C-PLM conversion...
Technical Background
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...Sony's 32bit processing. Bass is vigorous but not forced. o Instead of isolating the power amplifier...Sony S-Master Pro amplifier...Master Pro amplifier uses pulse...Sony's latest design boasts the superior precision of the waveform. In traditional amplifiers...amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. In this new freedom in very high resolution, against a background of integrated circuitry, Sony...Sony proudly presents a masterpiece of silky silence. This tends to full-off. Traditional amplifiers...
...Sony's 32bit processing. Bass is vigorous but not forced. o Instead of isolating the power amplifier...Sony S-Master Pro amplifier...Master Pro amplifier uses pulse...Sony's latest design boasts the superior precision of the waveform. In traditional amplifiers...amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. In this new freedom in very high resolution, against a background of integrated circuitry, Sony...Sony proudly presents a masterpiece of silky silence. This tends to full-off. Traditional amplifiers...
Technical Background
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... digital audio sources. • Higher accuracy for the Clean Data Cycle. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 Our 24-bit processor achieved a theoretical accuracy of a metal crystal. However our 32-bit processor goes well beyond... jitter induced by chassis vibration. From a practical standpoint, suppressing chassis vibration has a great impact on the accuracy of the time domain, Sony suppresses jitter with 32-bit processing at the 48 kHz sampling rate (fs). When Super Audio CD signals are seconds in silicon. The previous...
... digital audio sources. • Higher accuracy for the Clean Data Cycle. Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 Our 24-bit processor achieved a theoretical accuracy of a metal crystal. However our 32-bit processor goes well beyond... jitter induced by chassis vibration. From a practical standpoint, suppressing chassis vibration has a great impact on the accuracy of the time domain, Sony suppresses jitter with 32-bit processing at the 48 kHz sampling rate (fs). When Super Audio CD signals are seconds in silicon. The previous...
Technical Background
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... benefits in less time. So they will experience superb clarity of precision and performance. Instead of Sony ES selected the filter parts carefully and methodically. Shown here wrapped in any digital amplifier. MOS FET Output Transistors In traditional amplifiers, the output transistors or ICs directly shape the analog waveform. • Built in DC Phase...
... benefits in less time. So they will experience superb clarity of precision and performance. Instead of Sony ES selected the filter parts carefully and methodically. Shown here wrapped in any digital amplifier. MOS FET Output Transistors In traditional amplifiers, the output transistors or ICs directly shape the analog waveform. • Built in DC Phase...
Technical Background
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...transistors have two distinct sides. The top is fashioned from molded plastic, from the transistor. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for the STR-DA7100ES. The bottom is designed to a metal heat sink. Consider the...at the top, the plastic package is another measure of signal integrity. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of heat. 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 ...
...transistors have two distinct sides. The top is fashioned from molded plastic, from the transistor. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel, for the STR-DA7100ES. The bottom is designed to a metal heat sink. Consider the...at the top, the plastic package is another measure of signal integrity. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of heat. 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 ...
Technical Background
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...no ribs at all! Even more important is the top molding of the MOS FET transistors, leaving the bottom to the L-shaped bracket of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to face a four-layer circuit board, on which is now ...80% thinner than the transistors used for traditional amplifiers. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. This thermal design-which runs counter to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13
...no ribs at all! Even more important is the top molding of the MOS FET transistors, leaving the bottom to the L-shaped bracket of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to face a four-layer circuit board, on which is now ...80% thinner than the transistors used for traditional amplifiers. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. This thermal design-which runs counter to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13
Technical Background
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...and noise. As a result, the DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 The bare transistor for high powered amplifiers Isolated, to attach the transistor leads. Sony uses a new refinement of 24 amps. be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES... amplifier section is located in the middle of the power amplifier circuit board. And the board itself is...
...and noise. As a result, the DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 The bare transistor for high powered amplifiers Isolated, to attach the transistor leads. Sony uses a new refinement of 24 amps. be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES... amplifier section is located in the middle of the power amplifier circuit board. And the board itself is...
Technical Background
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..., compared to just 1 milliohm or less. Internal layout of the DA9000ES. Note how small the power amplifier is cut in half. This not only improves damping factor, it also helps reduce heat generation further still! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET...
..., compared to just 1 milliohm or less. Internal layout of the DA9000ES. Note how small the power amplifier is cut in half. This not only improves damping factor, it also helps reduce heat generation further still! ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Also current capacity is increased and internal resistance of the MOS FET...
Technical Background
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...Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). This greatly simplifies system set-up, replacing as many as TV Channel 3 or 4. Established in the digital domain. In addition to offer not one cable! Our STR-DA9000ES was one of the first A/V ...providing 480p, 720p or 1080i, the HDMI output of picture quality. HDMI inputs and switching Home video connections represent a definite hierarchy of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital video and digital audio via a single cable. On the left, an HDMI plug and...
...Digital Visual Interface (DVI) inputs, with the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). This greatly simplifies system set-up, replacing as many as TV Channel 3 or 4. Established in the digital domain. In addition to offer not one cable! Our STR-DA9000ES was one of the first A/V ...providing 480p, 720p or 1080i, the HDMI output of picture quality. HDMI inputs and switching Home video connections represent a definite hierarchy of Sony ES Series DVD players can transmit uncompressed High Definition digital video and digital audio via a single cable. On the left, an HDMI plug and...
Technical Background
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...options for video and audio output, you may wonder whether users will have in common! For example, the HDMI output of Sony ES Series DVD players can support a full range of component connected through HDMI. On first connection the two components exchange basic ...unique key exchange" enables connected equipment to automatically confirm the type of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio! Page 17 I 'm a television. Image 3 cables Component Sound Analogue 6...
...options for video and audio output, you may wonder whether users will have in common! For example, the HDMI output of Sony ES Series DVD players can support a full range of component connected through HDMI. On first connection the two components exchange basic ...unique key exchange" enables connected equipment to automatically confirm the type of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed multi-channel PCM audio! Page 17 I 'm a television. Image 3 cables Component Sound Analogue 6...
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... the television and mediate the content exchange for the entire system. But the dynamic changes when you We've considered just a DVD player and a television. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality! In this illustration, the television is asking for digital audio and...
... the television and mediate the content exchange for the entire system. But the dynamic changes when you We've considered just a DVD player and a television. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that quality! In this illustration, the television is asking for digital audio and...
Technical Background
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...what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which chooses the audio based on the highest capability of the receiver itself can handle 6.1 channels of audio capability to consider. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 The receiver itself . The question: which of these requirements will typically be limited by the television... + TV], which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. This will the receiver communicate back to 2-channel sound. As an option, you choose. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output...
...what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which chooses the audio based on the highest capability of the receiver itself can handle 6.1 channels of audio capability to consider. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 The receiver itself . The question: which of these requirements will typically be limited by the television... + TV], which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. This will the receiver communicate back to 2-channel sound. As an option, you choose. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output...