Table Of Contents - Sony STR-DA7100ES Technical Background

A new generation of A/V receivers
Digital home theater continues to advance at breakneck speed. You can
listen to upgraded surround sound formats, including Dolby Digital® EX 6.1
channel sound, dts® ES discrete 6.1 and dts Neo6:cinema. You can watch High
Definition video from over-the-air broadcasting, cable, satellite, HDV camcorders,
HD home videocassette recorders and HD digital video recorders. You can
enjoy surround sound from as many as nine speakers.
At the heart of the home theater-switching it all, decoding it all and
reproducing all the sound-stands the A/V receiver. And this single component
is challenged as never before. How do you coordinate and switch all those
sources, preserving audio and video in their most pristine form? How do you
pack all those channels of amplification in a single chassis and still deliver the
quality and power that home theater requires? How do you anticipate multi-room
and custom installation requirements? These questions are daunting. And the
answers determine the quality and suitability of any modern A/V receiver.
The engineers of Sony ES Series don't simply answer these questions.
They help drive the technology that brings these questions into being. Thanks in
part to this expertise, Sony's ES Series receivers have been praised by
equipment reviewers, cherished by home theater enthusiasts and scrutinized by
an entire industry. Sony's latest ES Series A/V receivers, particularly the STR-
DA7100ES, establish an important benchmark in home theater design with three
crucial advantages:
• S-Master Pro digital amplifiers with 32-bit processing and a new generation of
MOS FET output transistors.
• HDMI inputs, upconversion, switching and output.
• i.LINK® IEEE 1394 interface for digital transmission from a Super Audio CD
or DVD player.
In this way, our latest A/V receivers carry forward the proud tradition of the
Sony ES Series, the Elevated Standard in audio and video.
Digital Home Theater and Sony ES.........................
S-Master Pro amplifier with 32-bit DSP....................
HDMI inputs and switching.......................................
i.LINK IEEE 1394 interface.......................................
Other New Features..................................................
Performance Series Receivers............................
Continuing Features..................................................
Features and Specifications......................................
ES Receivers v1.0
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