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Audioquest Carbon Type A-B USB Cable

    Description

    In 1982 Sony gave Audioquest "Perfect sound forever," along with the attitude that, "it's just digital, so all CD players sound the same." That was disproved and qualitative differences between players became accepted truth. Next came separate transport and DAC combos, which brought with it the attitude that "all S/PDIF digital audio cables sound the same..." until that too became disproved. Now the frontier has moved once again. Is digital audio really just ones and zeros? Audioquest don't believe so, and once you've had a chance to listen to Carbon USB, you won't think so either!

    Available Lengths: 0.75m-5m

    • Solid 5% Silver Conductors
    • Solid High-Density Polyethylene Insulation
    • Carbon-Based 3-Layer Noise Dissipation System (NDS)
    • Silver-Plated Terminations
    • Universal Serial Bus Device Class Definition for Audio Devices

    Features

    Solid 5% Silver Conductors :

    Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter. Solid silver-plated conductors are excellent for very high-frequency applications, like USB audio. These signals, being such a high frequency, travel almost exclusively on the surface of the conductor. As the surface is made of high-purity silver, the performance is very close to that of a solid silver cable, but priced much closer to solid copper cable. This is an incredibly cost effective way of manufacturing very high-quality USB cables.

    Solid High-Density Polyethylene Insulation :

    Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then later released as distortion. Solid High-Density Polyethylene Insulation ensures critical signal-pair geometry while minimizing insulation-induced phase distortion.

    Carbon-Based 3-Layer Noise Dissipation System (NDS)

    100% shield coverage is easy. Preventing captured RF Interference from modulating the equipment’s ground reference requires AQ’s Noise-Dissipation System. Metal and Carbon-Loaded synthetics prevent most RFI from reaching the equipment’s ground plane.

    Silver-Plated Terminations :

    Precision direct-silver plated pins are carefully attached with the very best solder. Through choice of flux and metallurgy, AQ solder has been optimized to make a low-distortion connection. The difference you hear between solders is a result of connection quality. AQ Solder does not have a high silver content because the more silver there is in solder, the more difficult it is to make a good connection.

    Universal Serial Bus Device Class Definition for Audio Devices :

    USB (Universal Serial BUS) was established by a stalwart group of companies such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft (just to name a few) in order to give the personal computing world a truly universal standard and means to connect devices such as hard drives, printers, cameras, and, more importantly to us, audio components. Included in the original description are protocols for the pristine transfer of audio over USB. Great care and sensitivity went into this. Consequently, a computer connected to a USB-enabled digital-to-analog converter can outperform the best compact disc players available today. AudioQuest is committed to contributing products that honor USB's ability to deliver state-of-the-art performance on this new and wonderful frontier.

    Specifications

    Model Carbon
    Metal (USB A-B) Solid 5% Silver
    Metal (All Other Versions) 5% Silver Semi-Solid Concentric
    Dielectric Hard-Cell Foam
    Noise-Dissipation Carbon-Based Noise-Dissipation for USB A - B and USB 3.0 A - 3.0 Micro
    Jacket Gray/Black Braid
    Available Configurations USB A - B, USB A - C USB A - Micro B 2.0 USB A - Lightning USB 3.0 A - Micro B 3.0 USB B - C, USB C - C USB C - Lightning

    Audioquest Carbon Type A-B USB Cable

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      £149.00 Incl. VAT

          Description

          In 1982 Sony gave Audioquest "Perfect sound forever," along with the attitude that, "it's just digital, so all CD players sound the same." That was disproved and qualitative differences between players became accepted truth. Next came separate transport and DAC combos, which brought with it the attitude that "all S/PDIF digital audio cables sound the same..." until that too became disproved. Now the frontier has moved once again. Is digital audio really just ones and zeros? Audioquest don't believe so, and once you've had a chance to listen to Carbon USB, you won't think so either!

          Available Lengths: 0.75m-5m

          • Solid 5% Silver Conductors
          • Solid High-Density Polyethylene Insulation
          • Carbon-Based 3-Layer Noise Dissipation System (NDS)
          • Silver-Plated Terminations
          • Universal Serial Bus Device Class Definition for Audio Devices

          Features

          Solid 5% Silver Conductors :

          Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter. Solid silver-plated conductors are excellent for very high-frequency applications, like USB audio. These signals, being such a high frequency, travel almost exclusively on the surface of the conductor. As the surface is made of high-purity silver, the performance is very close to that of a solid silver cable, but priced much closer to solid copper cable. This is an incredibly cost effective way of manufacturing very high-quality USB cables.

          Solid High-Density Polyethylene Insulation :

          Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then later released as distortion. Solid High-Density Polyethylene Insulation ensures critical signal-pair geometry while minimizing insulation-induced phase distortion.

          Carbon-Based 3-Layer Noise Dissipation System (NDS)

          100% shield coverage is easy. Preventing captured RF Interference from modulating the equipment’s ground reference requires AQ’s Noise-Dissipation System. Metal and Carbon-Loaded synthetics prevent most RFI from reaching the equipment’s ground plane.

          Silver-Plated Terminations :

          Precision direct-silver plated pins are carefully attached with the very best solder. Through choice of flux and metallurgy, AQ solder has been optimized to make a low-distortion connection. The difference you hear between solders is a result of connection quality. AQ Solder does not have a high silver content because the more silver there is in solder, the more difficult it is to make a good connection.

          Universal Serial Bus Device Class Definition for Audio Devices :

          USB (Universal Serial BUS) was established by a stalwart group of companies such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft (just to name a few) in order to give the personal computing world a truly universal standard and means to connect devices such as hard drives, printers, cameras, and, more importantly to us, audio components. Included in the original description are protocols for the pristine transfer of audio over USB. Great care and sensitivity went into this. Consequently, a computer connected to a USB-enabled digital-to-analog converter can outperform the best compact disc players available today. AudioQuest is committed to contributing products that honor USB's ability to deliver state-of-the-art performance on this new and wonderful frontier.

          Specifications

          Model Carbon
          Metal (USB A-B) Solid 5% Silver
          Metal (All Other Versions) 5% Silver Semi-Solid Concentric
          Dielectric Hard-Cell Foam
          Noise-Dissipation Carbon-Based Noise-Dissipation for USB A - B and USB 3.0 A - 3.0 Micro
          Jacket Gray/Black Braid
          Available Configurations USB A - B, USB A - C USB A - Micro B 2.0 USB A - Lightning USB 3.0 A - Micro B 3.0 USB B - C, USB C - C USB C - Lightning

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