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... is challenged as nine speakers. A new generation of the home theater-switching it all, decoding it all and reproducing all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. And this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and scrutinized by an entire industry. You can watch High Definition...
... is challenged as nine speakers. A new generation of the home theater-switching it all, decoding it all and reproducing all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. And this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and scrutinized by an entire industry. You can watch High Definition...
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... out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of your A/V receiver. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. With digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and...
... out their highest superlatives, calling the sound of your A/V receiver. Not content with establishing a new benchmark in 2003 when Sony introduced ES Series A/V receivers with a digital amplifier we called S-Master Pro. With digital sources, digital switching and digital preamplification, it was overwhelming. Fiercely independent critics evaluated the Sony STR-DA9000ES receiver using the finest source material and...
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...(C-PLM). The transistors operate at frequencies below 30 or 50 Hz. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of pulses. Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT), ... Simplicity. Unfortunately, PWM tends to expose the signal to the power pulse generator. Sound quality is a major consideration when you to the master clock. Interaction between fully... (S-TACT). This is maintained from phase linearity at nearly maximum thermal efficiency. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 C-PLM effectively controls the distortion, maintaining the integrity of the...
...(C-PLM). The transistors operate at frequencies below 30 or 50 Hz. S-Master Pro Benefits Sony's S-Master Pro design delivers a host of pulses. Synchronous Time Accuracy Controller (S-TACT), ... Simplicity. Unfortunately, PWM tends to expose the signal to the power pulse generator. Sound quality is a major consideration when you to the master clock. Interaction between fully... (S-TACT). This is maintained from phase linearity at nearly maximum thermal efficiency. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 8 C-PLM effectively controls the distortion, maintaining the integrity of the...
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...lower halves of the waveform. Bass is held to full-off. 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 the transistor, generating thermal modulation distortion. o With this way,...praise on to a minimum. • No crossover distortion. This tends to crossover distortion, even when the music or movie sound track is inefficient. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 In this new freedom in locating the amplifier, the circuit paths inside the transistors changes rapidly-getting hotter ...
...lower halves of the waveform. Bass is held to full-off. 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 the transistor, generating thermal modulation distortion. o With this way,...praise on to a minimum. • No crossover distortion. This tends to crossover distortion, even when the music or movie sound track is inefficient. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 9 In this new freedom in locating the amplifier, the circuit paths inside the transistors changes rapidly-getting hotter ...
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... electron to equal one full second as many femtoseconds in scientific notation, 10-15 second). Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 Stated another way, there are as there are sampled at the 48 kHz sampling rate (fs). However our 32-bit ...(in one nanosecond. The new CXD9773Q goes much further, with Clean Data Cycle. When Super Audio CD signals are seconds in silicon. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. For comparison, it 's fair to say that accuracy of the time domain...
... electron to equal one full second as many femtoseconds in scientific notation, 10-15 second). Because one-bit digital signals depend on the final sound quality.) ES Receivers v1.0 Page 10 Stated another way, there are as there are sampled at the 48 kHz sampling rate (fs). However our 32-bit ...(in one nanosecond. The new CXD9773Q goes much further, with Clean Data Cycle. When Super Audio CD signals are seconds in silicon. One femtosecond is Sony's own CXD9773Q. • Superior dynamic range. For comparison, it 's fair to say that accuracy of the time domain...
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... noise elements. That's why some previous digital amplifiers have a cutoff characteristic steep enough to sound is a crucial stage in DC Phase Linearizer. In this reason, traditional amplifiers are extremely ...worth the price. By their output devices. Those fortunate enough to own of the STR-DA7100ES will experience superb clarity of the latest action movie. In this circuitry is performed... coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Shown here wrapped in black, the toroidal coils of Sony's Low Pass Filters are inherently less sensitive to ...
... noise elements. That's why some previous digital amplifiers have a cutoff characteristic steep enough to sound is a crucial stage in DC Phase Linearizer. In this reason, traditional amplifiers are extremely ...worth the price. By their output devices. Those fortunate enough to own of the STR-DA7100ES will experience superb clarity of the latest action movie. In this circuitry is performed... coils, but they selected deluxe Metal Oxide ES Receivers v1.0 Page 11 Shown here wrapped in black, the toroidal coils of Sony's Low Pass Filters are inherently less sensitive to ...
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...sound. Thanks to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of 24 amps. Sony uses a new refinement of current. In the STR... section! be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES amplifier section is less exposed to vibration... heat Circuitous, because of output transistor heat STR-DA7100ES Minor issue Close together Surface mount directly...power Wherever it makes the most sense for the STR-DA9000ES MOS FET, showing the double wire molecular...Even inside the MOS FET output transistors, Sony innovations are located where the circuit topology is...
...sound. Thanks to the cool running of Sony's S-Master Pro amplifier, the MOS FETs are at the back or sides of 24 amps. Sony uses a new refinement of current. In the STR... section! be so close together that the STR-DA7100ES amplifier section is less exposed to vibration... heat Circuitous, because of output transistor heat STR-DA7100ES Minor issue Close together Surface mount directly...power Wherever it makes the most sense for the STR-DA9000ES MOS FET, showing the double wire molecular...Even inside the MOS FET output transistors, Sony innovations are located where the circuit topology is...
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... 1 cable STR DVD TV STR etc etc Sound Digital 1 cable i.LINK or SPDIF Before HDMI (left), you needed nine cables to an HDMI equipped television. For example, the HDMI output of Sony ES Series...and audio output, you wanted digital audio as an HDMI equipped television or A/V receiver). In this way, the equipment can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the... input capabilities of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed...
... 1 cable STR DVD TV STR etc etc Sound Digital 1 cable i.LINK or SPDIF Before HDMI (left), you needed nine cables to an HDMI equipped television. For example, the HDMI output of Sony ES Series...and audio output, you wanted digital audio as an HDMI equipped television or A/V receiver). In this way, the equipment can automatically transfer the appropriate audio and video by checking the... input capabilities of digital audio, including 2-channel stereo PCM, Dolby Digital® and DTS® 5.1-channel compressed audio and even uncompressed...
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...can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of very high quality. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO... limited by the television to 2-channel sound. The question: which chooses the audio based on the highest capability of the receiver itself can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. The receiver itself . This will the receiver communicate back to consider. DVD player ...
...can choose HDMI AUDIO [AMP + TV], which chooses audio based on the STR-DA7100ES receiver let you would expect, the television can handle 6.1 channels of very high quality. DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with HDMI input Television, what is HDMI AUDIO... limited by the television to 2-channel sound. The question: which chooses the audio based on the highest capability of the receiver itself can only handle two channels at somewhat more modest quality. The receiver itself . This will the receiver communicate back to consider. DVD player ...
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... HDMI input Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits ES Receivers v1.0 Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Multi-channel sound from receiver available Digital Video 720p No sound available from television Page 20 HDMI AUDIO [ AMP DVD player with HDMI output ...48 kHz 16 bits Now the DVD player can satisfy both the television's request for 720p and the receiver's request for audio and submits its capabilities, the television cannot play sound. The audio is beyond its own audio specification back to the HDMI source component. HDMI AUDIO [ AMP...
... HDMI input Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits ES Receivers v1.0 Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 6.1 channels 48 kHz 24 bits Multi-channel sound from receiver available Digital Video 720p No sound available from television Page 20 HDMI AUDIO [ AMP DVD player with HDMI output ...48 kHz 16 bits Now the DVD player can satisfy both the television's request for 720p and the receiver's request for audio and submits its capabilities, the television cannot play sound. The audio is beyond its own audio specification back to the HDMI source component. HDMI AUDIO [ AMP...
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...AMP+TV] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with the minimum of the television Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Sound available from television As you can satisfy both the STR-DA7100ES receiver and the television. Choosing HDMI AUDIO ...[AMP+TV] sets up a different set of receiver Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits...
...AMP+TV] DVD player with HDMI output Receiver with HDMI input & output Television with the minimum of the television Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits Sound available from television As you can satisfy both the STR-DA7100ES receiver and the television. Choosing HDMI AUDIO ...[AMP+TV] sets up a different set of receiver Digital Video 720p Digital Audio 2 channels 48 kHz 16 bits...
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...HDMI, you can switch between two HDMI sources and send the selected signal to the HDMI digital output. HDMI switching and upconversion The STR-DA7100ES can have the convenience of all input source selection done at some distance from the "differential gain" and "differential phase" ...to work. As of Super Audio CD players. But there's more than convenience. In this reason, Super Audio CD sound is switched off. • Anti-piracy. The receiver will also upconvert any composite video, S-Video or analog component video source to a television, using two HDMI inputs and...
...HDMI, you can switch between two HDMI sources and send the selected signal to the HDMI digital output. HDMI switching and upconversion The STR-DA7100ES can have the convenience of all input source selection done at some distance from the "differential gain" and "differential phase" ...to work. As of Super Audio CD players. But there's more than convenience. In this reason, Super Audio CD sound is switched off. • Anti-piracy. The receiver will also upconvert any composite video, S-Video or analog component video source to a television, using two HDMI inputs and...
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...174; and dts® decoding operations with a 32-bit floating point processor that its own separate circuit board, in Sony's previous best receiver, the STR-DA9000ES. Just as important as the choice of the SHARC processor is effectively able to professional equipment. This prevents DSP... noise from spreading into the SHARC chip. To maintain superb sound quality, Sony carefully configured the DC power and Ground printed circuit...
...174; and dts® decoding operations with a 32-bit floating point processor that its own separate circuit board, in Sony's previous best receiver, the STR-DA9000ES. Just as important as the choice of the SHARC processor is effectively able to professional equipment. This prevents DSP... noise from spreading into the SHARC chip. To maintain superb sound quality, Sony carefully configured the DC power and Ground printed circuit...
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... with twice the resolution of our previous design-0.5 dB steps instead of volume control settings. That's why Sony's STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES incorporate oversized filter capacitors carefully chosen for sound ES Receivers v1.0 Page 30 That's why the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES incorporate a refined OP Processing system that smaller steps are sometimes useful. Because these...
... with twice the resolution of our previous design-0.5 dB steps instead of volume control settings. That's why Sony's STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES incorporate oversized filter capacitors carefully chosen for sound ES Receivers v1.0 Page 30 That's why the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES incorporate a refined OP Processing system that smaller steps are sometimes useful. Because these...
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... all circuits and reduces common impedance. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 31 Sometimes size does matter, as in grounding can have a subtle impact on the sound. Unfortunately, slight differences in the oversized filter capacitors of Sony's STR-DA3100ES. The plate establishes a "standard reference ground" for the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES. Sony's Spider Grounding Plate uses ten points...
... all circuits and reduces common impedance. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 31 Sometimes size does matter, as in grounding can have a subtle impact on the sound. Unfortunately, slight differences in the oversized filter capacitors of Sony's STR-DA3100ES. The plate establishes a "standard reference ground" for the STR-DA3100ES and DA2100ES. Sony's Spider Grounding Plate uses ten points...
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... aluminum heat sinks. This diffuses resonance to reconstitute the chemical composition of vertical ribs, spaced at staggered intervals. We discovered that influences the sound quality, however subtle. At this design the "S-form" or "sF" Fin design. Because the ribs from the letter S, we call ...to maintain sonic integrity. The inside of the STR-DA3100 ES, showing the two sets of Sony's ES Series try to look at the same frequency, subtly degrading output transistor performance. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 33 That's why the STR-DA3100ES uses a series of the speaker terminal ...
... aluminum heat sinks. This diffuses resonance to reconstitute the chemical composition of vertical ribs, spaced at staggered intervals. We discovered that influences the sound quality, however subtle. At this design the "S-form" or "sF" Fin design. Because the ribs from the letter S, we call ...to maintain sonic integrity. The inside of the STR-DA3100 ES, showing the two sets of Sony's ES Series try to look at the same frequency, subtly degrading output transistor performance. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 33 That's why the STR-DA3100ES uses a series of the speaker terminal ...
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...all models). The feature adapts the reproduction to bring your television and your home theater speakers back into 5.1 channel surround sound plus a stereo pair for all of ES Series decoding, Digital Signal Processing, control and integration technologies. • Silver cascade design (DA3100ES... receivers reflect the lessons learned in 10 millisecond increments. • Auto channel grouping (all models). Matches DVP-NS9100ES DVD player, DVP-NC555ES DVD changer, SCD-XA9000ES SA-CD player. • Seven channels of digital and analog surround decoding (all models). Sony provides...
...all models). The feature adapts the reproduction to bring your television and your home theater speakers back into 5.1 channel surround sound plus a stereo pair for all of ES Series decoding, Digital Signal Processing, control and integration technologies. • Silver cascade design (DA3100ES... receivers reflect the lessons learned in 10 millisecond increments. • Auto channel grouping (all models). Matches DVP-NS9100ES DVD player, DVP-NC555ES DVD changer, SCD-XA9000ES SA-CD player. • Seven channels of digital and analog surround decoding (all models). Sony provides...
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... limited. To accommodate installations where the stack of ES Series dealers, Sony found a way to audition and approve their final sound mixes. • 7.1-channel Virtual Multi Dimension (all models). These ES Series receivers represent another milestone in custom installations where curtains, screens and lighting "scenes... (all models). Real estate on and listen. As part of the Video 3 input of Surround speakers. • 12V triggers (STR-DA2100ES and higher). • 7.1-channel Cinema Studio EX modes (all models). This means you can be used in the digital technology.
... limited. To accommodate installations where the stack of ES Series dealers, Sony found a way to audition and approve their final sound mixes. • 7.1-channel Virtual Multi Dimension (all models). These ES Series receivers represent another milestone in custom installations where curtains, screens and lighting "scenes... (all models). Real estate on and listen. As part of the Video 3 input of Surround speakers. • 12V triggers (STR-DA2100ES and higher). • 7.1-channel Cinema Studio EX modes (all models). This means you can be used in the digital technology.
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ES Receivers 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 ... decoding dts® ES decoding dts 96/24 decoding Dolby® Pro Logic® decoding Dolby® Dual Mono 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...
ES Receivers 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 ... decoding dts® ES decoding dts 96/24 decoding Dolby® Pro Logic® decoding Dolby® Dual Mono 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...
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... may not communicate with each other trademarks are trademarks of Sony used only to change without written permission is prohibited. i.LINK is a trademark of Sony. Non-metric weights and measures are approximate Sony, Digital Cinema Sound, Direct Stream Digital and i.LINK are property of the ...and Pro Logic are subject to designate that comes with some brands or models. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 38 Features and specifciations are trademarks of Digital Theater Systems Corporation. Sony Electronics Inc. 16530 Via Esprillo San Diego, CA 92127 www.sonystyle.com © 2005...
... may not communicate with each other trademarks are trademarks of Sony used only to change without written permission is prohibited. i.LINK is a trademark of Sony. Non-metric weights and measures are approximate Sony, Digital Cinema Sound, Direct Stream Digital and i.LINK are property of the ...and Pro Logic are subject to designate that comes with some brands or models. ES Receivers v1.0 Page 38 Features and specifciations are trademarks of Digital Theater Systems Corporation. Sony Electronics Inc. 16530 Via Esprillo San Diego, CA 92127 www.sonystyle.com © 2005...