AudioQuest Pearl
Standard to Micro USB Cable
Item #AQ:PEARLUSBMICRO
Overview
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 Pearl USB, you won 't think so either…
- Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion. Pearl '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.
- Pearl USB uses air-filled Foamed-Polyethylene Insulation because air absorbs next to no energy and Polyethylene is low-loss and has a benign distortion profile.
- Precision gold-plated plugs are carefully attached with the very best solder. Through the choice of flux and metallurgy, AQ solder has been optimized to make a low-distortion connection.
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