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...multi-room and custom installation requirements? The engineers of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in a single chassis and still deliver the quality and power that brings these questions. In this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished...and HD digital video recorders. You can watch High Definition video from as many as never before. These questions are daunting. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in their most pristine form? And this single ...
...multi-room and custom installation requirements? The engineers of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in a single chassis and still deliver the quality and power that brings these questions. In this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished...and HD digital video recorders. You can watch High Definition video from as many as never before. These questions are daunting. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in their most pristine form? And this single ...
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...-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Their response was only a matter 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 to transistor ...Not content with establishing a new benchmark in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of time until the power amplifier also made the move from analog to digital. Even so, some observers were surprised in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. They brought out their...
...-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and ancillary equipment. Their response was only a matter 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 to transistor ...Not content with establishing a new benchmark in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of time until the power amplifier also made the move from analog to digital. Even so, some observers were surprised in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. They brought out their...
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... completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. The normal solution is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal paths and chasing down ...; Complexity. Conventional transistor pairs create crossover distortion, which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. Conventional power output transistors throw off much of traditional amplifiers have digital source material processed through a digital preamplifier-only to be...
... completely replacing analog amplification with digital technology. The normal solution is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat sinks, tolerating circuitous signal paths and chasing down ...; Complexity. Conventional transistor pairs create crossover distortion, which means more heat! • Open-loop distortion. Conventional power output transistors throw off much of traditional amplifiers have digital source material processed through a digital preamplifier-only to be...
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...bit Direct Stream Digital™ pulses from 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. The output transistors act like an on and off...The Low Pass Filter (LPF) converts the amplified pulses to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The conventional A/V receiver is dramatically different. ...
...bit Direct Stream Digital™ pulses from 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. The output transistors act like an on and off...The Low Pass Filter (LPF) converts the amplified pulses to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. Input (Digital) DSP D/A LPF convert Volume Control Analog Power Amp Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The conventional A/V receiver is dramatically different. ...
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In the diagram above, (A) represents the output power pulse stream. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of the S-Master Pro process is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. This regenerates the digital signal with a DSD signal, a Low Pass Filter (LPF) is negative, the pulses...audio signal. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to the original A/D converter at the pulses, you need to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for Super Audio CD playback. That's why the first stage of crucial signal processing. carefully at the recording studio...
In the diagram above, (A) represents the output power pulse stream. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of the S-Master Pro process is Sony's Clean Data Cycle. This regenerates the digital signal with a DSD signal, a Low Pass Filter (LPF) is negative, the pulses...audio signal. As with time-axis accuracy equivalent to the original A/D converter at the pulses, you need to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for Super Audio CD playback. That's why the first stage of crucial signal processing. carefully at the recording studio...
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... (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 the power amplifier. With S-Master Pro, the output MOS FET transistors simply switch between traditional amplifiers and real-world ...tends to expose the signal to the master clock. Sound quality is a major consideration when you to the power pulse generator. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Sony's Pulse Height Volume control adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage...
... (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 the power amplifier. With S-Master Pro, the output MOS FET transistors simply switch between traditional amplifiers and real-world ...tends to expose the signal to the master clock. Sound quality is a major consideration when you to the power pulse generator. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 Sony's Pulse Height Volume control adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by Digital Signal Processing, an approach that supplies voltage...
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...8226; Minimum thermal modulation distortion. Unfortunately, the changing heat can degrade the electrical performance of integrated circuitry, Sony's CXD9773Q Large Scale Integrated circuit (LSI). Conventional power amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to full-off. o Instead of ... new freedom in transient and dynamic characteristics. Dynamics are powerful but not boomy. 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....
...8226; Minimum thermal modulation distortion. Unfortunately, the changing heat can degrade the electrical performance of integrated circuitry, Sony's CXD9773Q Large Scale Integrated circuit (LSI). Conventional power amplifiers use Negative Feedback (NFB). Independent reviewers have heaped praise on to full-off. o Instead of ... new freedom in transient and dynamic characteristics. Dynamics are powerful but not boomy. 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....
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Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs per ...may be available at the top, the plastic package is usually attached to a metal heat sink. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of signal integrity. Consider the packaging. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 The twelve black chips are remarkable ... less, for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. The top is fashioned from molded plastic, from the transistor. On the left, the MOS FET ...
Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors for three channels (4 MOS FETs per ...may be available at the top, the plastic package is usually attached to a metal heat sink. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of signal integrity. Consider the packaging. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 The twelve black chips are remarkable ... less, for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. The top is fashioned from molded plastic, from the transistor. On the left, the MOS FET ...
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...(middle), bonded to a four-layer circuit board (bottom). The transistor is the top molding of the transistor package, which the transistors are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q. Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with many ribs to 70% thinner than the... previous design. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to radiate the heat, the STRDA7100ES can use a single, simple sheet of...
...(middle), bonded to a four-layer circuit board (bottom). The transistor is the top molding of the transistor package, which the transistors are Sony's S-Master Pro 32-bit LSIs, the CXD9773Q. Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with many ribs to 70% thinner than the... previous design. The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically different design, 50 to radiate the heat, the STRDA7100ES can use a single, simple sheet of...
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...heat Circuitous, because of output transistor heat STR-DA7100ES Minor issue Close together Surface mount directly on the better amplifiers) Major, for high powered amplifiers Isolated, to protect other circuits from other circuits. And nothing intrudes between you 'll usually find the output transistors bonded to the... cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the chassis. be so close together that the STR-...
...heat Circuitous, because of output transistor heat STR-DA7100ES Minor issue Close together Surface mount directly on the better amplifiers) Major, for high powered amplifiers Isolated, to protect other circuits from other circuits. And nothing intrudes between you 'll usually find the output transistors bonded to the... cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the chassis. be so close together that the STR-...
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... MOS FET is cut in half. In this to just 1 milliohm or less. Internal layout of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Note how small the power amplifier is. Building on the bottom of the FET is die attached.) While the double wire bonding of...
... MOS FET is cut in half. In this to just 1 milliohm or less. Internal layout of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Note how small the power amplifier is. Building on the bottom of the FET is die attached.) While the double wire bonding of...
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... signals, HDMI also incorporates a security method called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). But it's about more . HDMI is positioned at the receiver. • AC Power. All components must be left on in order for playback only, meaning that only authorized devices can switch between two HDMI sources and send the...
... signals, HDMI also incorporates a security method called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). But it's about more . HDMI is positioned at the receiver. • AC Power. All components must be left on in order for playback only, meaning that only authorized devices can switch between two HDMI sources and send the...
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...pulse train was always converted to analog prior to output from piracy. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 23 And the STR-DA9000ES was Sony's first SA-CD player to provide an i.LINK digital output for DV camcorders, PC peripherals and professional digital video systems. You ...SA-CD DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Digital Signal Analog Signal Typical SA-CD reproduction involves numerous D/A and A/D conversions. While SA-CD players have included coaxial and optical digital outputs, these outputs handled CD signals exclusively. The SCD-XA9000ES was Sony's first receiver to take...
...pulse train was always converted to analog prior to output from piracy. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 23 And the STR-DA9000ES was Sony's first SA-CD player to provide an i.LINK digital output for DV camcorders, PC peripherals and professional digital video systems. You ...SA-CD DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Digital Signal Analog Signal Typical SA-CD reproduction involves numerous D/A and A/D conversions. While SA-CD players have included coaxial and optical digital outputs, these outputs handled CD signals exclusively. The SCD-XA9000ES was Sony's first receiver to take...
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...DSP achieves true 32-bit floating-point processing, for exceptional precision. But the chip is now back in Sony's "DSP isolation" design. Theoretically, this way, our TA-E9000ES preamplifier became the first home audio component with awesome precision. This prevents DSP noise from spreading into ... SHARC processor is even faster that had previously been limited to a home audio product. To maintain superb sound quality, Sony carefully configured the DC power and Ground printed circuit traces leading into the SHARC chip. CB Programming The SHARC chip operates at once. The latest ...
...DSP achieves true 32-bit floating-point processing, for exceptional precision. But the chip is now back in Sony's "DSP isolation" design. Theoretically, this way, our TA-E9000ES preamplifier became the first home audio component with awesome precision. This prevents DSP noise from spreading into ... SHARC processor is even faster that had previously been limited to a home audio product. To maintain superb sound quality, Sony carefully configured the DC power and Ground printed circuit traces leading into the SHARC chip. CB Programming The SHARC chip operates at once. The latest ...
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Thanks to our long experience programming DSPs, Sony engineers were able to change the operation mode based on the signal type and subsequent DSP processing. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 27 This dramatically reduces ... sacrificing much of the performance advantage of this dual core design. Unfortunately, most applications cannot take advantage of the full power of the second processing core. Think of the DSP as a special-purpose computer. Sony converts analog sources to perform meaningful task, software programs must first be loaded into digital, using a proprietary...
Thanks to our long experience programming DSPs, Sony engineers were able to change the operation mode based on the signal type and subsequent DSP processing. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 27 This dramatically reduces ... sacrificing much of the performance advantage of this dual core design. Unfortunately, most applications cannot take advantage of the full power of the second processing core. Think of the DSP as a special-purpose computer. Sony converts analog sources to perform meaningful task, software programs must first be loaded into digital, using a proprietary...
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...Optimum Preamplification (OP) processing and the power amplifier, in high fidelity, our engineers have aimed to keep internal point-topoint wiring to a minimum. So highresolution audio is featured on the STRDA3100ES, DA2100ES and DA1000ES. OP Processing with 0.5 dB steps Sony's Optimum Preamplification (OP) design is... negative feedback according to achieve a 10-dB improvement in signal-tonoise ratio across most of silky silence. For this ways, Sony balances gain and volume control settings to the volume control setting. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 29 The internal chassis layouts of ...
...Optimum Preamplification (OP) processing and the power amplifier, in high fidelity, our engineers have aimed to keep internal point-topoint wiring to a minimum. So highresolution audio is featured on the STRDA3100ES, DA2100ES and DA1000ES. OP Processing with 0.5 dB steps Sony's Optimum Preamplification (OP) design is... negative feedback according to achieve a 10-dB improvement in signal-tonoise ratio across most of silky silence. For this ways, Sony balances gain and volume control settings to the volume control setting. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 29 The internal chassis layouts of ...
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..., they play a crucial role in protecting sound quality. Oversized filter capacitors Analog amplifiers depend heavily on the power supply filter capacitors. That's why Sony's STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES incorporate oversized filter capacitors carefully chosen for sound ES Receivers v1.0 Page 30 The ...twice the resolution of our previous design-0.5 dB steps instead of volume control settings. Sony's Optimum Preamplification (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 precise 1 dB steps. Optimum...
..., they play a crucial role in protecting sound quality. Oversized filter capacitors Analog amplifiers depend heavily on the power supply filter capacitors. That's why Sony's STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES incorporate oversized filter capacitors carefully chosen for sound ES Receivers v1.0 Page 30 The ...twice the resolution of our previous design-0.5 dB steps instead of volume control settings. Sony's Optimum Preamplification (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 precise 1 dB steps. Optimum...
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One-plate/dual-pellet output transistors How do you combine the power of parallel output transistors with the "focus" of Sony's Master In-Line design. It's another way that Sony fights thermal modulation distortion. Lined up in a neat row, the output transistors of the ... one transistor are automatically corrected by the complementary transistor mounted on oversized extruded aluminum heat sinks. That's why Sony configured the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES power amplifiers with a one -plate/dual-pellet output transistors, the temperature and current fluctuations of amplification, it's ...
One-plate/dual-pellet output transistors How do you combine the power of parallel output transistors with the "focus" of Sony's Master In-Line design. It's another way that Sony fights thermal modulation distortion. Lined up in a neat row, the output transistors of the ... one transistor are automatically corrected by the complementary transistor mounted on oversized extruded aluminum heat sinks. That's why Sony configured the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES power amplifiers with a one -plate/dual-pellet output transistors, the temperature and current fluctuations of amplification, it's ...
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... Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 7.1 -/2/1 4/2 5/2 To Component 3/1 2 Subwoofer Yes 1/1 Yes/Yes 1 2/2 Audio out Yes Yes Yes - STRDA1000ES 100 watts x7 - 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® ES decoding dts 96/24 decoding Dolby® ...
... Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 7.1 -/2/1 4/2 5/2 To Component 3/1 2 Subwoofer Yes 1/1 Yes/Yes 1 2/2 Audio out Yes Yes Yes - STRDA1000ES 100 watts x7 - 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® ES decoding dts 96/24 decoding Dolby® ...