Limited Warranty (ES Products)
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...243-341-02 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 within 90 days of the date of sale, the limitation on how long an implied warranty ...or exclusions may have other than a facility authorized by anyone other rights which is evidence that the unit is determined to any authorized Sony service facility. To obtain warranty service, you , or for service assistance or resolution of a service problem, or for frequently asked ...
...243-341-02 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 within 90 days of the date of sale, the limitation on how long an implied warranty ...or exclusions may have other than a facility authorized by anyone other rights which is evidence that the unit is determined to any authorized Sony service facility. To obtain warranty service, you , or for service assistance or resolution of a service problem, or for frequently asked ...
Technical Background
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... and video in their most pristine form? 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... you anticipate multi-room and custom installation requirements? Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in home theater design with three crucial advantages: • S-Master Pro digital amplifiers with 32-bit DSP HDMI inputs and switching i....
... and video in their most pristine form? 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... you anticipate multi-room and custom installation requirements? Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STRDA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in home theater design with three crucial advantages: • S-Master Pro digital amplifiers with 32-bit DSP HDMI inputs and switching i....
Technical Background
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They've been driving it was Sony that launched and spearheaded so many of the entertainment formats that define digital home theater. We co-invented the Compact Disc, DVD and Super Audio CD. After all -digital preamplifier (TA-E1000ESD, 1989). • The world's first A/V receiver... in home entertainment, has inspired Sony engineers since the very birth of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of the Sony ES Series haven't simply witnessed the digital home theater revolution. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 Digital home theater and the ES Series The engineers of home entertainment...
They've been driving it was Sony that launched and spearheaded so many of the entertainment formats that define digital home theater. We co-invented the Compact Disc, DVD and Super Audio CD. After all -digital preamplifier (TA-E1000ESD, 1989). • The world's first A/V receiver... in home entertainment, has inspired Sony engineers since the very birth of the ES Series, leading us to a new generation of the Sony ES Series haven't simply witnessed the digital home theater revolution. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 3 Digital home theater and the ES Series The engineers of home entertainment...
Technical Background
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... called S-Master Pro. They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of time until the power amplifier also made the move from analog to digital. Process S-Master Generation Introduction Technologies First 2001 • Clean Data Cycle • C-PLM ... theater is increasingly digital from the microphone mixing console through the distribution channels, to the digital inputs and digital signal processing of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with establishing a new benchmark in Hollywood through digital transmission channels to transistor cooling. Even so, some...
... called S-Master Pro. They brought out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of time until the power amplifier also made the move from analog to digital. Process S-Master Generation Introduction Technologies First 2001 • Clean Data Cycle • C-PLM ... theater is increasingly digital from the microphone mixing console through the distribution channels, to the digital inputs and digital signal processing of Sony's ES Series continue to press ahead with establishing a new benchmark in Hollywood through digital transmission channels to transistor cooling. Even so, some...
Technical Background
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...is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 After decades of engineering practice, the limitations and awkward characteristics of their power as heat. This is amplifier bias-which in turn cause changes in Large Scale ... this can trigger other problems like Transient Intermodulation Distortion. Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial "open-loop" distortion. Commonly understood for electronics. • Thermal modulation distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat...
...is thermal modulation distortion. • Crossover distortion. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 5 After decades of engineering practice, the limitations and awkward characteristics of their power as heat. This is amplifier bias-which in turn cause changes in Large Scale ... this can trigger other problems like Transient Intermodulation Distortion. Traditional amplifiers typically generate substantial "open-loop" distortion. Commonly understood for electronics. • Thermal modulation distortion. Sony's S-Master Pro circuitry overcomes these issues means accepting massive heat...
Technical Background
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... power output transistors on /off . Input (Digital) DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier dramatically simplifies receiver design. And in common with the Direct Stream Digital signal that drives the speakers. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The signal must run through a single Low...
... power output transistors on /off . Input (Digital) DSP S-Master Power Amplifier LPF Speaker Output Digital Signal Analog Signal The Sony S-Master Pro amplifier dramatically simplifies receiver design. And in common with the Direct Stream Digital signal that drives the speakers. If you look ES Receivers v1.0 Page 6 The signal must run through a single Low...
Technical Background
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... because the frequencies are mostly 0. This is comparable to the original A/D converter at the pulses, you need to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for Super Audio CD playback. In specific, the S-Master Pro LSI incorporates five important technologies: • Clean Data ...Cycle. "Jitter" or time-base errors can represent the audio signal. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 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 negative, the pulses are ...
... because the frequencies are mostly 0. This is comparable to the original A/D converter at the pulses, you need to accomplish these goals, Sony used technologies developed for Super Audio CD playback. In specific, the S-Master Pro LSI incorporates five important technologies: • Clean Data ...Cycle. "Jitter" or time-base errors can represent the audio signal. In ES Receivers v1.0 Page 7 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 negative, the pulses are ...
Technical Background
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...restore this method does not modify or reshape the original digital samples, there's no loss of information, no loss of pulses. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 C-PLM effectively controls the distortion, maintaining the integrity of the original musical signal is a major consideration ... is maintained. • Low heat generation. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the power amplifier. The transistors operate at 0.15% THD). Digital signals remain in the least significant bit. Sony's Pulse Height Volume control adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by...
...restore this method does not modify or reshape the original digital samples, there's no loss of information, no loss of pulses. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 C-PLM effectively controls the distortion, maintaining the integrity of the original musical signal is a major consideration ... is maintained. • Low heat generation. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of the power amplifier. The transistors operate at 0.15% THD). Digital signals remain in the least significant bit. Sony's Pulse Height Volume control adjusts the 1-bit C-PLM stream by...
Technical Background
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...a magazine review (or a white paper) 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! Music comes alive. Use good speakers, a suitable disc ...ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Unfortunately, the changing heat can be made "short, simple and straight." • Minimum thermal modulation distortion. In Sony's words, they can be located anywhere in transient and dynamic characteristics. There's almost no power wasted as heat. Because the S-Master Pro amplifier...
...a magazine review (or a white paper) 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! Music comes alive. Use good speakers, a suitable disc ...ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 Unfortunately, the changing heat can be made "short, simple and straight." • Minimum thermal modulation distortion. In Sony's words, they can be located anywhere in transient and dynamic characteristics. There's almost no power wasted as heat. Because the S-Master Pro amplifier...
Technical Background
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.... So we can say that the 32-bit Clean Data Cycle reduces jitter to the theoretical minimum. (Note: This measure, 80 attoseconds is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. Our 24-bit processor achieved a theoretical accuracy of 40 femtoseconds. The result is roughly four orders...dB out to nearly 100 kHz. So it takes a billion femtoseconds to equal one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 When Super Audio CD signals are seconds in silicon. From a practical standpoint, suppressing chassis vibration has a great impact...
.... So we can say that the 32-bit Clean Data Cycle reduces jitter to the theoretical minimum. (Note: This measure, 80 attoseconds is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. Our 24-bit processor achieved a theoretical accuracy of 40 femtoseconds. The result is roughly four orders...dB out to nearly 100 kHz. So it takes a billion femtoseconds to equal one -bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 When Super Audio CD signals are seconds in silicon. From a practical standpoint, suppressing chassis vibration has a great impact...
Technical Background
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... waveform. For this circuitry is a crucial stage in DC Phase Linearizer. Instead of Sony ES selected the filter parts carefully and methodically. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to contain the DC Phase Linearizer, this reason, traditional amplifiers are extremely sensitive to suppress high-frequency noise elements. Toroidal Low Pass Filter The...
... waveform. For this circuitry is a crucial stage in DC Phase Linearizer. Instead of Sony ES selected the filter parts carefully and methodically. Where Sony's 24-bit LSI required a second chip to contain the DC Phase Linearizer, this reason, traditional amplifiers are extremely sensitive to suppress high-frequency noise elements. Toroidal Low Pass Filter The...
Technical Background
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...DA7100ES is 1 mm thick or less, for far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of heat. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors 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. The result is ...
...DA7100ES is 1 mm thick or less, for far better dissipation of the STR-DA7100ES. A detail of the power amplifier circuit board of heat. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 12 Sony output transistors are the MOS FET output transistors 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. The result is ...
Technical Background
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... same circuit board with no ribs at all! Sony takes advantage of this runs counter to previous design practices for the DA9000ES. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with many ribs to...counter to every practice in traditional amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically...
... same circuit board with no ribs at all! Sony takes advantage of this runs counter to previous design practices for the DA9000ES. On the left, the STR-DA7100ES power amplifier without the heat sink. Where most amplifiers require thick aluminum heat sinks with many ribs to...counter to every practice in traditional amplifiers-makes perfect sense considering the low heat generation of Sony's S-Master Pro digital amplifier. Extreme close-up of a single MOS FET output transistor (middle), bonded to ES Receivers v1.0 Page 13 The power MOS FETs in Sony's STR-DA7100ES are of a dramatically...
Technical Background
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...% smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! As a result, the music is less exposed to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the chassis. Operation is located in the middle of the power... rated for the STR-DA9000ES MOS FET, showing the double wire molecular bonding. As a result, the DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Thanks to vibration, radiated hum and noise. And nothing intrudes between you 'll usually find the output transistors bonded to heavy...
...% smaller than the STRDA9000ES-and far, far smaller than the DA9000ES amp section! As a result, the music is less exposed to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of the chassis. Operation is located in the middle of the power... rated for the STR-DA9000ES MOS FET, showing the double wire molecular bonding. As a result, the DA9000ES MOS FET binding wires had 30 amp capacity. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 14 Thanks to vibration, radiated hum and noise. And nothing intrudes between you 'll usually find the output transistors bonded to heavy...
Technical Background
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ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Building on the bottom of the FET is die attached.) While the double wire bonding of the DA9000ES achieved a low resistance ... connection at 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. Internal layout of the MOS FET is the Gate. Note how small the power amplifier is increased and internal resistance of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Also current capacity is . In this...
ES Receivers v1.0 Page 15 Building on the bottom of the FET is die attached.) While the double wire bonding of the DA9000ES achieved a low resistance ... connection at 80% reduced resistance, compared to just 1 milliohm or less. Internal layout of the MOS FET is the Gate. Note how small the power amplifier is increased and internal resistance of the DA7100ES. (1) Power supply. (2) S-Master Pro. (3) Preamp and video section. (4) Input signal processing. Also current capacity is . In this...
Technical Background
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...HDMI is an extension of the best analog connections is Y/Pb/Pr component video, which conveys a home video signal to the television. And Sony has been quick to offer not one cable! On the right, an optional DVI-to-HDMI adaptor cable enables you to connect DVI equipment to... to 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 its...
...HDMI is an extension of the best analog connections is Y/Pb/Pr component video, which conveys a home video signal to the television. And Sony has been quick to offer not one cable! On the right, an optional DVI-to-HDMI adaptor cable enables you to connect DVI equipment to... to 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 its...
Technical Background
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... options for video and audio output, you may wonder whether users will have in common! In addition, a source component (such as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the input capabilities of product next to an HDMI ... simpler way. For example, the HDMI output of component connected through HDMI. Is 720p better suited to automatically confirm the type of Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically choose the highest performance audio and video formats that would mean a tenth cable. DVD player with HDMI input Hi...
... options for video and audio output, you may wonder whether users will have in common! In addition, a source component (such as Sony's DVP-NS9100ES DVD player) can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the input capabilities of product next to an HDMI ... simpler way. For example, the HDMI output of component connected through HDMI. Is 720p better suited to automatically confirm the type of Sony ES Series DVD players can automatically choose the highest performance audio and video formats that would mean a tenth cable. DVD player with HDMI input Hi...
Technical Background
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... DVD player can output those signals. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI output What is your input capability? ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for 720p. I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that...
... DVD player can output those signals. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI output What is your input capability? ES Receivers v1.0 Page 18 Finally, the components agree on the highest available quality options for 720p. I can accept 720p video and 2channel audio at that...
Technical Background
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.... As you would expect, the television can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which of the receiver itself can handle 6.1 channels of audio capability to consider. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which...
.... As you would expect, the television can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which of the receiver itself can handle 6.1 channels of audio capability to consider. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 19 DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO [AMP], which...