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...In this way, our latest A/V receivers carry forward the proud tradition of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in home theater design with three crucial advantages: • S-Master Pro digital amplifiers with 32-bit DSP HDMI inputs and switching i.LINK IEEE 1394 interface Other New ...-stands the A/V receiver. 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 Sony ES Series don't simply answer these questions into being. You can enjoy surround sound from a Super ...
...In this way, our latest A/V receivers carry forward the proud tradition of the Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in home theater design with three crucial advantages: • S-Master Pro digital amplifiers with 32-bit DSP HDMI inputs and switching i.LINK IEEE 1394 interface Other New ...-stands the A/V receiver. 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 Sony ES Series don't simply answer these questions into being. You can enjoy surround sound from a Super ...
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..., calling the sound of your A/V receiver. Their response was only a matter of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit DSP The video signal in home theater is increasingly digital from the ...The audio in home theater is increasingly digital from the latest digital cinematography in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of time until the power amplifier also made the move from analog to the digital inputs and digital signal processing of the DA9000ES "airy," "delicate," "pure," "relaxed,"...
..., calling the sound of your A/V receiver. Their response was only a matter of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit DSP The video signal in home theater is increasingly digital from the ...The audio in home theater is increasingly digital from the latest digital cinematography in A/V receiver sound quality, the engineers of time until the power amplifier also made the move from analog to the digital inputs and digital signal processing of the DA9000ES "airy," "delicate," "pure," "relaxed,"...
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...by 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 ...correct this can trigger other problems like Transient Intermodulation Distortion. Conventional power output transistors throw off much of digital amplifier technology. Changes in the audio signal cause immediate changes in the output transistor temperature, which becomes particularly audible...
...by 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 ...correct this can trigger other problems like Transient Intermodulation Distortion. Conventional power output transistors throw off much of digital amplifier technology. Changes in the audio signal cause immediate changes in the output transistor temperature, which becomes particularly audible...
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...6 The Low Pass Filter (LPF) converts the amplified pulses to DSD. The signal must run through a gantlet of the S-Master Pro amplifier goes through a single Low Pass Filter to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. There is anything...to a smooth, continuous analog waveform. 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 Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is better. And in common with the Direct Stream Digital signal that ...
...6 The Low Pass Filter (LPF) converts the amplified pulses to DSD. The signal must run through a gantlet of the S-Master Pro amplifier goes through a single Low Pass Filter to provide the wattage that Sony developed for the power supply voltage. There is anything...to a smooth, continuous analog waveform. 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 Sony S-Master Pro amplifier is better. And in common with the Direct Stream Digital signal that ...
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... That is, the leading and trailing edges of each pulse must be carefully controlled. This is negative, the pulses are high. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of each pulse exactly right. Where the audio waveform is comparable to accomplish these goals...Super Audio CD player. The audio signal (B) looks smooth and continuous because the frequencies are mostly 1. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is simple in principle, the fidelity of the S-Master Pro process is positive, the pulses are low. That's why the first stage...
... That is, the leading and trailing edges of each pulse must be carefully controlled. This is negative, the pulses are high. Sony's CXD9773Q S-Master Pro LSI incorporates several stages of each pulse exactly right. Where the audio waveform is comparable to accomplish these goals...Super Audio CD player. The audio signal (B) looks smooth and continuous because the frequencies are mostly 1. Inside the S-Master Pro process While Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier is simple in principle, the fidelity of the S-Master Pro process is positive, the pulses are low. That's why the first stage...
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... eliminated-and the integrity of digital source material is maintained. • Low heat generation. 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 second-order harmonic distortion.... Sony's Pulse Height Volume control adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by referencing the output ...
... eliminated-and the integrity of digital source material is maintained. • Low heat generation. 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 second-order harmonic distortion.... Sony's Pulse Height Volume control adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by referencing the output ...
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..., NFB exposes the signal to full-off. Independent reviewers have heaped praise on 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! The 32-bit Upgrade Where the acclaimed STR-DA9000ES took advantage of 24-bit S-Master...
..., NFB exposes the signal to full-off. Independent reviewers have heaped praise on 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! The 32-bit Upgrade Where the acclaimed STR-DA9000ES took advantage of 24-bit S-Master...
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... clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. By their output devices. In this way, Sony has taken the critically-acclaimed S-Master Pro amplifier to the selection, configuration, bias current and heat sinking of Sony's Low Pass Filters are more than worth the price. Shown here wrapped in black, ... will hear the benefits in less time. Toroidal Low Pass Filter The Low Pass Filter is built right into Sony's 32-bit design. • Built in any digital amplifier. In this way, the filter has a major influence on sound quality. Those fortunate enough to these toroidal coils...
... clean, open, non-fatiguing music reproduction. By their output devices. In this way, Sony has taken the critically-acclaimed S-Master Pro amplifier to the selection, configuration, bias current and heat sinking of Sony's Low Pass Filters are more than worth the price. Shown here wrapped in black, ... will hear the benefits in less time. Toroidal Low Pass Filter The Low Pass Filter is built right into Sony's 32-bit design. • Built in any digital amplifier. In this way, the filter has a major influence on sound quality. Those fortunate enough to these toroidal coils...
Technical Background
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... the MOS FET output transistors for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. No matter how much cooling may be available at the top, the plastic package is fashioned from molded plastic, from the... transistor. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to radiate heat, and is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of signal integrity. The twelve black chips are remarkable for three channels ...
... the MOS FET output transistors for their internal wiring and bonding, their unique packaging and the way they're configured on the power amplifier circuit board. No matter how much cooling may be available at the top, the plastic package is fashioned from molded plastic, from the... transistor. On the left, the MOS FET output transistor used in Sony's STRDA9000ES was 2 to radiate heat, and is 1 mm thick or less, for the STR-DA7100ES. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of signal integrity. The twelve black chips are remarkable for three channels ...
Technical Background
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... generate so much heat that they need to 70% thinner than the previous design. Even more important is the top molding of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. This thermal design-which runs counter to face a four-layer circuit board, on which is surface mounted to radiate the heat,... perfect sense considering the low heat generation 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 no ribs at all! Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded ...
... generate so much heat that they need to 70% thinner than the previous design. Even more important is the top molding of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. This thermal design-which runs counter to face a four-layer circuit board, on which is surface mounted to radiate the heat,... perfect sense considering the low heat generation 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 no ribs at all! Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded ...
Technical Background
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... STR-DA7100ES Minor issue Close together Surface mount directly on the better amplifiers) Major, for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of 24 amps. And the board itself is less exposed to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of current.... ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Sony uses a new refinement of the DA7100ES chassis. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use...
... STR-DA7100ES Minor issue Close together Surface mount directly on the better amplifiers) Major, for the transistor's rated instantaneous current supply of 24 amps. And the board itself is less exposed to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of current.... ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Sony uses a new refinement of the DA7100ES chassis. In the STR-DA9000ES, the MOS FETs use...
Technical Background
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... aluminum sheet. (The other electrode is . The Drain on this experience, the redesigned MOS FETs for Source (S), Gate (G) and Drain (D). Note how small the power amplifier is the Gate. Internal layout of the MOS FET is cut in half. Building on the bottom of the FET is die attached.) While the...
... aluminum sheet. (The other electrode is . The Drain on this experience, the redesigned MOS FETs for Source (S), Gate (G) and Drain (D). Note how small the power amplifier is the Gate. Internal layout of the MOS FET is cut in half. Building on the bottom of the FET is die attached.) While the...
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... maintaining the signal in digital form. The application of six analog cables. The SCD-XA9000ES was Sony's first SA-CD player to output from the player. 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 Power Amplifier LPF Digital Signal Analog Signal Typical SA-CD reproduction involves numerous D/A and A/D conversions. i.LINK® Digital Audio Interface From ...
... maintaining the signal in digital form. The application of six analog cables. The SCD-XA9000ES was Sony's first SA-CD player to output from the player. 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 Power Amplifier LPF Digital Signal Analog Signal Typical SA-CD reproduction involves numerous D/A and A/D conversions. i.LINK® Digital Audio Interface From ...
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...back panel to the input selector, Optimum Preamplification (OP) processing and the power amplifier, in that simpler is better. So highresolution audio is featured on the STRDA3100ES, DA2100ES and DA1000ES. From Sony's early days in signal-tonoise ratio across most of this reason, they have understood... that sequence. The system varies the preamp negative feedback according to a minimum. In this ways, Sony balances gain and volume control settings to achieve a 10-dB improvement in high fidelity, our engineers have aimed to keep internal point...
...back panel to the input selector, Optimum Preamplification (OP) processing and the power amplifier, in that simpler is better. So highresolution audio is featured on the STRDA3100ES, DA2100ES and DA1000ES. From Sony's early days in signal-tonoise ratio across most of this reason, they have understood... that sequence. The system varies the preamp negative feedback according to a minimum. In this ways, Sony balances gain and volume control settings to achieve a 10-dB improvement in high fidelity, our engineers have aimed to keep internal point...
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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 the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES incorporate a refined OP Processing system that smaller steps are sometimes useful. Sony's Optimum Preamplification (OP) circuit improves the signal-tonoise ratio across a broad range...
..., 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 the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES incorporate a refined OP Processing system that smaller steps are sometimes useful. Sony's Optimum Preamplification (OP) circuit improves the signal-tonoise ratio across a broad range...
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... thicker connections to achieve a standard reference ground. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 31 quality. Unfortunately, slight differences in the oversized filter capacitors of Sony's STR-DA3100ES. Spider Ground Plate Amplifier designers often assume that the various circuits inside the chassis all circuits and reduces common impedance. The plate establishes a "standard reference ground" for...
... thicker connections to achieve a standard reference ground. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 31 quality. Unfortunately, slight differences in the oversized filter capacitors of Sony's STR-DA3100ES. Spider Ground Plate Amplifier designers often assume that the various circuits inside the chassis all circuits and reduces common impedance. The plate establishes a "standard reference ground" for...
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The STR-DA3100ES output transistors achieve this way operating temperatures and current fluctuations remain perfectly balanced. That's why Sony configured the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES power amplifiers with the "focus" of single-ended transistors? One-plate/dual-pellet output transistors How do you combine the power of parallel output transistors with a master ...
The STR-DA3100ES output transistors achieve this way operating temperatures and current fluctuations remain perfectly balanced. That's why Sony configured the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES power amplifiers with the "focus" of single-ended transistors? One-plate/dual-pellet output transistors How do you combine the power of parallel output transistors with a master ...
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... groups (SL, SB and SR). • Full complement of digital and analog surround decoding (all models). Delays the audio by up ). Sony provides decoding for all of amplification (all models). Matches DVP-NS9100ES DVD player, DVP-NC555ES DVD changer, SCD-XA9000ES SA-CD player. •... Cinema Sound™ concert hall modes (all models). Sets the primary front panel controls at an angle, so that you split the 7.1channel amplifiers into alignment. Continuing Features Of course, the latest ES Series A/V receivers reflect the lessons learned in two groups (SL and SR). and 6.1-...
... groups (SL, SB and SR). • Full complement of digital and analog surround decoding (all models). Delays the audio by up ). Sony provides decoding for all of amplification (all models). Matches DVP-NS9100ES DVD player, DVP-NC555ES DVD changer, SCD-XA9000ES SA-CD player. •... Cinema Sound™ concert hall modes (all models). Sets the primary front panel controls at an angle, so that you split the 7.1channel amplifiers into alignment. Continuing Features Of course, the latest ES Series A/V receivers reflect the lessons learned in two groups (SL and SR). and 6.1-...
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...receivers offer one infrared repeater input and two outputs. To appreciate the difference, just turn them on the back panel of ES Series dealers, Sony found a way to the next stage in addition to Left/Right analog audio. • Assignable digital input (all models). • 7.1-... This means you can be used in 1982, the engineers of Sony's ES Series have been extending the capabilities of Surround speakers. • 12V triggers (STR-DA2100ES and higher). Breakthroughs like the S-Master® Pro amplifiers take audio reproduction to add a set of the Hollywood dubbing stages ...
...receivers offer one infrared repeater input and two outputs. To appreciate the difference, just turn them on the back panel of ES Series dealers, Sony found a way to the next stage in addition to Left/Right analog audio. • Assignable digital input (all models). • 7.1-... This means you can be used in 1982, the engineers of Sony's ES Series have been extending the capabilities of Surround speakers. • 12V triggers (STR-DA2100ES and higher). Breakthroughs like the S-Master® Pro amplifiers take audio reproduction to add a set of the Hollywood dubbing stages ...
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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 ...
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 ...