The Audioquest DragonTail USB Extender for Dragonfly DAC is a USB type-A male to female cable, allowing you to connect your Dragonfly USB DAC to a PC. The DragonTail extender is useful to ensure the Dragonfly does not hinder any extra USB ports when connected to a laptop or PC.
The DragonTail USB extender shares a lot of its technology with the Audioquest Carbon USB cable.
Solid 5% Silver Conductors
Solid conductors minimize the harmful effects of both electrical and magnetic strand-to-strand interaction. For digital cables, whose signals are of such high frequency that they travel almost exclusively on the surface of the conductor, increasingly thick layers of silver plating are applied to AudioQuestโs Long-Grain Copper (LGC) conductors to further improve Noise-Dissipation.
Placing the superior metal on the outside of the conductor produces the greatest benefit on overall performance. This is a superbly cost-effective way to maximize the DragonTail USB Extender.
Carbon-Based 5-Layer Noise-Dissipation
It’s easy to accomplish 100% shield coverage. Preventing captured Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from modulating the equipment’s ground reference the DragonTail requires AQ’s Noise-Dissipation System (NDS). Traditional shield systems typically absorb and then drain noise/RF energy to component ground, modulating and distorting the critical “reference” ground plane, which in turn causes a distortion of the signal.
Hard-Cell Foam Insulation
Hard-Cell Foam (HCF) Insulation in the DragonTail USB Extender ensures critical signal-pair geometry. Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Both wire insulation and circuit board materials absorb energy. They store some of this energy and then release it as distortion.
Hard-Cell Foam Insulation is similar to the Foamed-PE Audioquest use in the more affordable Bridges & Falls cables, and nitrogen-inject to create air pockets.
Technical Specifications
- Metal: Solid 5% Silver
- Noise Dissipation: Carbon-Based Mesh-Network + Directional RF Draining
- Insulation: Hard-Cell Foam
- Bitrate: Up To 480 Mbps
- Signal Type: Digital
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