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Audioquest Pearl USB Type A - Type B Data Cable

Original price €38.05 - Original price €96.59
Original price €38.05
€38.05
€38.05 - €96.59
Current price €38.05

Length: 0.75M
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The AudioQuest Pearl USB cable is a brilliant low cost alternative to the flat and lifeless sound that generic USB cables normally deliver. The cable utilises the same materials that gave the HDMI versions rave reviews and product of the year with What Hi-Fi Sound & Vision, such as solid long grain copper (LGC) conductors and polyethylene dielectric.

Key Features

  • Solid Long-Grain Copper Conductors (LGC)
  • Solid High-Density Polyethylene Insulation
  • Gold-Plated Terminations
  • Universal Serial Bus Device Class Definition for Audio Devices

In 1982 Sony gave us "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? We don't believe so, and once you've had a chance to listen to Forest USB, you won't think so either...

Solid Long-Grain Copper Conductors (LGC)

Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion. Forest's solid Long-Grain Copper allows a smoother and clearer sound than cables using regular OFHC (Oxygen-Free High-Conductivity) copper. OFHC is a general metal industry specification regarding “loss” without any concern for distortion. LGC has fewer oxides within the conducting material, less impurities, less grain boundaries, and definitively better performance.

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.

Gold-Plated Terminations

Precision gold-plated plugs 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.

  • Metal: Solid LGC (Long-Grain Copper)
  • Dielectric: Solid High-Density Polyethylene
  • Termination: Gold-Plated
  • Jacket Colour: Black/White stripe PVC
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