Home Theatre Component System

Transforming any room into the ideal listening environment is now simpler than ever. With Digital Cinema Auto Calibration (D.C.A.C), audio performance is automatically calibrated according to the shape, size and construction of your room. Simply place the supplied calibration microphone at your usual listening spot, position the speakers and connect them to the receiver to activate D.C.A.C.

Make the most out of songs, pictures and video stored on your iPod®, Sony Walkman®, MP3 players, Sony Ericsson Walkman® phones, Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi portable music devices with the DIGITAL MEDIA PORT. Just plug and play the DMPORT unit via one cable and you’re ready to enjoy your favourite music, amplified and in higher quality, with song title and track information conveniently displayed onscreen.

NOTE: All DMPORT accessories are sold separately.

Linear PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) is the highest-quality audio option available on the Blu-ray Disc™ format. Sony Blu-ray Home Theatre Systems accept uncompressed Linear PCM high-resolution audio via HDMI Repeater inputs, enabling them to make the most of the enhanced sound quality that goes hand-in-hand with superb video on Blu-ray Disc™.

Formerly know as AC-3. Dolby Digital has five separate sound channels plus one or low frequencies (bass). The result is a highly effective and dramatic surround system with sound quality better than many cinemas. Dolby Digital requires a digital source such as DVD or AC-3 encoded laserdiscs.

Sony’s Systems are equipped with S-Master Digital Amplifier for superb accuracy, clear separation of signals, and balanced sound reproduction using a digital-to-digital process. They are designed to be highly efficient, producing minimal heat while taking up about a quarter of the space of conventional amplifiers.

S-Master accepts all digital signals in digital and cleanly amplifies the signal in “digital” without needing to convert it into analogue first. Using a simplified signal path and full digital processing, the audio signal is taken directly from DSP stage without additional D/A conversion. This keeps the purity of the digital audio signal right up to the final speaker output, reproducing a realistic sound experience just like the original recording.

Dolby Pro Logic II is an advanced matrix decoder that derives five-channel surround (Left, Center, Right, Left Surround, and Right Surround) from any stereo program material, whether or not it has been specifically Dolby Surround encoded.

Dolby Laboratories was dominant during the era of analog audio. But with the advent of digitalization, one of the new sound processing systems to be developed was the DTS by Digital Theater Systems Inc.

DTS 96/24 is the latest 5.1 channel surround format that offers superior sound quality compatible to original 96/24 master tapes.