Audio Performance
In addition to DVD-Video and Compact Discs, these ES Series DVD players also reproduce sumptuous high-resolution audio: both stereo and multi- channel Super Audio CD music. You'll hear the inner detail of choral ensembles. The reverberation trailing from a guitar chord. And the acoustic space surrounding the instruments. With Super Audio CD, you hear every nuance of sound reproduced with incredible ease and clarity.
Multi-channel Super Audio CD playback
The ES Series DVD players take full advantage of the latest generation of multi-channel Super Audio CD music. Multi-channel Super Audio CD gives producers the ability to capture the precise ambience and reverberation that give any concert hall, jazz club or recording studio its characteristic "sound." Multi- channel Super Audio CD doesn't just bring the performer to your room; it sounds as if you have entered the performer's space. The result can be overwhelming. By combining this fully dimensional soundstage with the uncanny clarity of DSD® technology, these players offer music reproduction that's nothing short of brilliant.
DSD® decoder LSI
The Super Audio CD’s 1-bit signal is processed and decoded by Sony's DSD decoder LSI. This integrated circuit makes intelligent decisions regarding processing of the incoming data to form the 1-bit audio signal. The LSI first reads the Watermark—a feature protecting Super Audio CDs from illegal copying—and then decodes the incoming data. The LSI uses internal memory to take data that's output intermittently from the disc, rearrange it and order it into continuous 1-bit audio streams. This LSI also reads sub code data such as the Table of Contents, track number, track time, and text data.
Audio Technology for Analog Outputs
While the provision of an i.LINK® digital interface for Super Audio CD signals is a technological tour de force, compatible equipment is just beginning to become available. Clearly, many owners of the DVP-NS9100ES will be enjoying Super Audio CD through analog outputs. For this reason, Sony has developed sophisticated technology to provide an analog output of superlative linearity, with extraordinary freedom from noise, interference and jitter-induced distortion. The result is unsurpassed music reproduction, no matter which outputs you use.
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