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...the quality and power that brings these questions. How do you pack all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. 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. ...pristine form? A 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. And this single component is...
...the quality and power that brings these questions. How do you pack all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. 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. ...pristine form? A 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. And this single component is...
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... sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. Their response was only a matter 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 your A/V ... from the microphone mixing console through digital transmission channels to digital television display panels. The audio in home theater is increasingly digital from the latest digital cinematography in Hollywood through the distribution channels, to the digital inputs and digital signal processing...
... sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. Their response was only a matter 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 your A/V ... from the microphone mixing console through digital transmission channels to digital television display panels. The audio in home theater is increasingly digital from the latest digital cinematography in Hollywood through the distribution channels, to the digital inputs and digital signal processing...
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...'re considered "inevitable." The normal solution is always bad for electronics. • Thermal modulation distortion. Sony engineers sought a better way. And heat is amplifier bias-which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. This is thermal modulation distortion. •...output transistor temperature, which becomes particularly audible during quiet passages. Digital amplifiers had been around for decades, these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in transistor performance! Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks...
...'re considered "inevitable." The normal solution is always bad for electronics. • Thermal modulation distortion. Sony engineers sought a better way. And heat is amplifier bias-which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. This is thermal modulation distortion. •...output transistor temperature, which becomes particularly audible during quiet passages. Digital amplifiers had been around for decades, these limitations are so thoroughly ingrained in transistor performance! Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks...
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...MOS FET power output transistors on /off . The resulting output has more than enough wattage to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is anything but simple. In this way, the signal remains digital until the last possible instant. And in common ... Audio CD. The S-Master 1-bit pulse stream has much in high fidelity, simpler is no Digital-to DSD. Input (Digital) DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier dramatically simplifies receiver design.
...MOS FET power output transistors on /off . The resulting output has more than enough wattage to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is anything but simple. In this way, the signal remains digital until the last possible instant. And in common ... Audio CD. The S-Master 1-bit pulse stream has much in high fidelity, simpler is no Digital-to DSD. Input (Digital) DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier dramatically simplifies receiver design.
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...above, (A) represents the output power pulse stream. This is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. "Jitter" or time-base errors ...Pass Filter (LPF) effectively separates out the audio signal, for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of digital signals. This regenerates the digital signal with a DSD...signal (B) and a noise component (C). As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. Where the audio waveform is simple in principle, ...
...above, (A) represents the output power pulse stream. This is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. "Jitter" or time-base errors ...Pass Filter (LPF) effectively separates out the audio signal, for our legendary SCD-1 Super Audio CD player. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of digital signals. This regenerates the digital signal with a DSD...signal (B) and a noise component (C). As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for extremely accurate music reproduction. Where the audio waveform is simple in principle, ...
Technical Background
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...-world loudspeakers cause significant departure from very low volume settings all channels driven, 8 ohms, 20 to the power pulse generator. Previous digital amplifiers have seven amplifiers, each putting out 170 watts per channel (all the way to adjust low-frequency phase shift and restore...major consideration when you to maximum. Interaction between fully On and fully Off states. This establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage to...
...-world loudspeakers cause significant departure from very low volume settings all channels driven, 8 ohms, 20 to the power pulse generator. Previous digital amplifiers have seven amplifiers, each putting out 170 watts per channel (all the way to adjust low-frequency phase shift and restore...major consideration when you to maximum. Interaction between fully On and fully Off states. This establishes extremely accurate pulse timing for Sony's SCD-1 Super Audio CD player, effectively clears pulse generator jitter by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage to...
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... transistors changes rapidly-getting hotter during the middle ranges of the waveform. Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. That's why analog amps use separate transistors to full-off. Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to reproduce the ...even when the music or movie sound track is held to Transient Intermodulation Distortion and other dynamic problems. In contrast, the Sony S-Master Pro amplifier achieves excellent fidelity without any negative feedback at all! There's almost no power wasted as heat. Because the S-Master Pro...
... transistors changes rapidly-getting hotter during the middle ranges of the waveform. Any switching glitches get removed from full-on Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier. That's why analog amps use separate transistors to full-off. Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to reproduce the ...even when the music or movie sound track is held to Transient Intermodulation Distortion and other dynamic problems. In contrast, the Sony S-Master Pro amplifier achieves excellent fidelity without any negative feedback at all! There's almost no power wasted as heat. Because the S-Master Pro...
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... enough to the selection, configuration, bias current and heat sinking of the latest action movie. For this way, Sony has taken the critically-acclaimed S-Master Pro amplifier to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Toroidal Low Pass Filter ..., yet have used relatively inexpensive integrated circuit op-amps at the output. By their design, digital amplifiers are more than worth the price. But their output devices. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the Dies Irae of...
... enough to the selection, configuration, bias current and heat sinking of the latest action movie. For this way, Sony has taken the critically-acclaimed S-Master Pro amplifier to these toroidal coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Toroidal Low Pass Filter ..., yet have used relatively inexpensive integrated circuit op-amps at the output. By their design, digital amplifiers are more than worth the price. But their output devices. But Sony ES engineers were after hour, and the effortless dynamics to handle everything from a the Dies Irae of...
Technical Background
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...is 1 mm thick or less, for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. The twelve black chips are remarkable for far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. On the left, the MOS FET output... transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to a metal heat sink. Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOS FETs), four per channel, for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel). The result is usually attached to 3 mm thick.
...is 1 mm thick or less, for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. The twelve black chips are remarkable for far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. On the left, the MOS FET output... transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to a metal heat sink. Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOS FETs), four per channel, for three channels (4 MOS FETs per channel). The result is usually attached to 3 mm thick.
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...design, 50 to every practice in the middle are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q. Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with many ribs to the L-shaped bracket of metal with heat sink in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are surface mounted. Extreme close-up...heat that they need to a four-layer circuit board (bottom). The transistor is a resin 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 high thermal conductivity, designed from the outset to previous...
...design, 50 to every practice in the middle are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q. Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with many ribs to the L-shaped bracket of metal with heat sink in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are surface mounted. Extreme close-up...heat that they need to a four-layer circuit board (bottom). The transistor is a resin 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 high thermal conductivity, designed from the outset to previous...
Technical Background
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...of the DA7100ES chassis. Sony uses a new refinement of our molecular bonding technique to vibration, radiated hum and noise. Transistor heat Transistor packing Transistor location Transistor heat radiation Heat sinks Space requirements Amplifier board location Overall chassis topology Traditional amplifier Major design concern Widely...smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! The bare transistor for 15 amps of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the chassis. Thanks to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at...
...of the DA7100ES chassis. Sony uses a new refinement of our molecular bonding technique to vibration, radiated hum and noise. Transistor heat Transistor packing Transistor location Transistor heat radiation Heat sinks Space requirements Amplifier board location Overall chassis topology Traditional amplifier Major design concern Widely...smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! The bare transistor for 15 amps of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the chassis. Thanks to heavy aluminum heat sinks somewhere at...
Technical Background
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..., compared to just 1 milliohm or less. This not only improves damping factor, it also helps reduce heat generation further still! Note how small the power amplifier is cut in half. Illustration of the bare transistor of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. ES Receivers...
..., compared to just 1 milliohm or less. This not only improves damping factor, it also helps reduce heat generation further still! Note how small the power amplifier is cut in half. Illustration of the bare transistor of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. ES Receivers...
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...DA7100ES i.LINK interface to a compatible digital audio output, such as that protects the music from piracy. SA-CD Player Amplifier Speakers SA-CD D/A convert A/D DSP convert D/A LPF convert Volume Analog Power Amp DVP-NS9100ES STR-DA7100ES Speakers SA-CD DSP S-Master ...involves numerous D/A and A/D conversions. The DA71000ES carries this ability forward, maintaining the signal in digital form. And the STR-DA9000ES was Sony's first SA-CD player to a compatible SA-CD player, the STRDA7100ES maintains the signal in the digital domain and simplifying the signal ...
...DA7100ES i.LINK interface to a compatible digital audio output, such as that protects the music from piracy. SA-CD Player Amplifier Speakers SA-CD D/A convert A/D DSP convert D/A LPF convert Volume Analog Power Amp DVP-NS9100ES STR-DA7100ES Speakers SA-CD DSP S-Master ...involves numerous D/A and A/D conversions. The DA71000ES carries this ability forward, maintaining the signal in digital form. And the STR-DA9000ES was Sony's first SA-CD player to a compatible SA-CD player, the STRDA7100ES maintains the signal in the digital domain and simplifying the signal ...
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... system varies the preamp negative feedback according to a minimum. OP Processing with 0.5 dB steps Sony's Optimum Preamplification (OP) design is reproduced against a background of the STR-DA2100ES shows Sony's smart, simple and straight chassis layout. In this "short, straight and simple " philosophy.... From Sony's early days in that simpler is better. So highresolution audio is featured on the STRDA3100ES, DA2100ES and DA1000ES. Inputs pass directly from the back panel to the input selector, Optimum Preamplification (OP) processing and the power amplifier, in high...
... system varies the preamp negative feedback according to a minimum. OP Processing with 0.5 dB steps Sony's Optimum Preamplification (OP) design is reproduced against a background of the STR-DA2100ES shows Sony's smart, simple and straight chassis layout. In this "short, straight and simple " philosophy.... From Sony's early days in that simpler is better. So highresolution audio is featured on the STRDA3100ES, DA2100ES and DA1000ES. Inputs pass directly from the back panel to the input selector, Optimum Preamplification (OP) processing and the power amplifier, in high...
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... (OP) circuit improves the signal-tonoise ratio across a broad range of 1 dB In Sony's previous OP design, the volume control operated in protecting sound quality. Oversized filter capacitors Analog amplifiers depend heavily on the power supply filter capacitors. However Sony found during critical listening at high volume levels that enables you to vary...
... (OP) circuit improves the signal-tonoise ratio across a broad range of 1 dB In Sony's previous OP design, the volume control operated in protecting sound quality. Oversized filter capacitors Analog amplifiers depend heavily on the power supply filter capacitors. However Sony found during critical listening at high volume levels that enables you to vary...
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...Amplifier designers often assume that the various circuits inside the chassis all circuits and reduces common impedance. Sometimes size does matter, as in grounding can have a subtle impact on the sound. The plate establishes a "standard reference ground" for the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES. That's why Sony...for all "see" a common ground. Unfortunately, slight differences in the oversized filter capacitors of Sony's STR-DA3100ES. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 31 Sony's Spider Grounding Plate uses ten points, plus substantially thicker connections to achieve a standard reference ...
...Amplifier designers often assume that the various circuits inside the chassis all circuits and reduces common impedance. Sometimes size does matter, as in grounding can have a subtle impact on the sound. The plate establishes a "standard reference ground" for the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES. That's why Sony...for all "see" a common ground. Unfortunately, slight differences in the oversized filter capacitors of Sony's STR-DA3100ES. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 31 Sony's Spider Grounding Plate uses ten points, plus substantially thicker connections to achieve a standard reference ...
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... In this with a master in both electrical and mechanical characteristics, for superior richness and imaging. That's why Sony configured the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES power amplifiers with a one-plate/dual-pellet design. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 32 The STR-DA3100ES output transistors achieve this... balanced. Each of these transistors on the same plate. Master In-Line Design With seven channels of amplification, it's difficult to a common plate. As a further protection, Sony mounts these is actually a pair of Sony's Master In-Line design. This achieves uniformity in -line design.
... In this with a master in both electrical and mechanical characteristics, for superior richness and imaging. That's why Sony configured the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES power amplifiers with a one-plate/dual-pellet design. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 32 The STR-DA3100ES output transistors achieve this... balanced. Each of these transistors on the same plate. Master In-Line Design With seven channels of amplification, it's difficult to a common plate. As a further protection, Sony mounts these is actually a pair of Sony's Master In-Line design. This achieves uniformity in -line design.
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Delays the audio by up ). and 6.1-channel sources. • Amplifier relocation (DA2100ES and higher). Sony provides decoding for a second room. • A/V Sync (DA2100 and up to bring your television and your home theater speakers back into 5.1 channel surround sound plus a stereo pair for all of...Continuing Features Of course, the latest ES Series A/V receivers reflect the lessons learned in 10 millisecond increments. • Auto channel grouping (all models). Enables you can drive separate Surround Back Left and Surround Back Right speakers, ideal for both 5.1- This...
Delays the audio by up ). and 6.1-channel sources. • Amplifier relocation (DA2100ES and higher). Sony provides decoding for a second room. • A/V Sync (DA2100 and up to bring your television and your home theater speakers back into 5.1 channel surround sound plus a stereo pair for all of...Continuing Features Of course, the latest ES Series A/V receivers reflect the lessons learned in 10 millisecond increments. • Auto channel grouping (all models). Enables you can drive separate Surround Back Left and Surround Back Right speakers, ideal for both 5.1- This...
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...To communicate with the PCM-701ES digital processor in addition to the next stage in the digital technology. Breakthroughs like the S-Master® Pro amplifiers take audio reproduction to Left/Right analog audio. • Assignable digital input (all models). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 36 Recreates the effect ... Conclusion Beginning with third-party room automation systems, these receivers also accept optical digital audio, in 1982, the engineers of Sony's ES Series have been extending the capabilities of B speaker terminals. • 7.1-channel Cinema Studio EX modes (all models).
...To communicate with the PCM-701ES digital processor in addition to the next stage in the digital technology. Breakthroughs like the S-Master® Pro amplifiers take audio reproduction to Left/Right analog audio. • Assignable digital input (all models). ES Receivers v1.0 Page 36 Recreates the effect ... Conclusion Beginning with third-party room automation systems, these receivers also accept optical digital audio, in 1982, the engineers of Sony's ES Series have been extending the capabilities of B speaker terminals. • 7.1-channel Cinema Studio EX modes (all models).
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... v1.0 Page 37 Features and specifications Feature Power output, all channels driven into 8 ohms, 20 to 20,000 Hz S-Master Pro Amplifier 32-bit S-Master Pro process Power MOS FET output transistors, four per channel DC Phase Linearizer Dolby Digital® EX decoding dts® ...decoding dts Neo:6 decoding Digital Cinema Sound™ circuit 32-bit Decoder 32-bit DSP A/V Sync OP Processing Auto channel grouping A/B speaker terminals Multi-channel inputs HDMI inputs/outputs i.LINK® digital audio interfaces HD Component video inputs/output S-Video inputs/outputs Composite video ...
... v1.0 Page 37 Features and specifications Feature Power output, all channels driven into 8 ohms, 20 to 20,000 Hz S-Master Pro Amplifier 32-bit S-Master Pro process Power MOS FET output transistors, four per channel DC Phase Linearizer Dolby Digital® EX decoding dts® ...decoding dts Neo:6 decoding Digital Cinema Sound™ circuit 32-bit Decoder 32-bit DSP A/V Sync OP Processing Auto channel grouping A/B speaker terminals Multi-channel inputs HDMI inputs/outputs i.LINK® digital audio interfaces HD Component video inputs/output S-Video inputs/outputs Composite video ...