This bundle includes (1) AudioQuest DragonFly Black v1.5 USB Digital-to-Analog Converter and (1) AudioQuest DragonTail USB-A > USB-C High-Performance USB-A (Female) to USB-C (Male) Extender
The AudioQuest DragonFly Black v1.5 USB DAC Bundle with DragonTail USB-A to USB-C Extender delivers portable hi-fi sound for laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Featuring the acclaimed DragonFly Black DAC with ESS Sabre chip and MQA support, plus the DragonTail USB-C adaptor for expanded compatibility, this bundle ensures powerful, high-resolution audio anywhere you go.
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AudioQuest DragonFly Black v1.5 USB DAC Bundle w/ DragonTail USB-A to USB-C Extender
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DESCRIPTION
This bundle includes (1) AudioQuest DragonFly Black v1.5 USB Digital-to-Analog Converter and (1) AudioQuest DragonTail USB-A > USB-C High-Performance USB-A (Female) to USB-C (Male) Extender
The AudioQuest DragonFly Black v1.5 USB DAC Bundle with DragonTail USB-A to USB-C Extender delivers portable hi-fi sound for laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Featuring the acclaimed DragonFly Black DAC with ESS Sabre chip and MQA support, plus the DragonTail USB-C adaptor for expanded compatibility, this bundle ensures powerful, high-resolution audio anywhere you go.
FEATURES
DragonFly Black:
USB Stick-Sized Digital-to-Analog Converter
Plays all music files: MP3 to high-res
Compatible with Apple and Windows PCs, as well as iOS and Android mobile devices (requires Apple Camera Adapter or Made for Android/OTG adapter)
Drives headphones directly
Fixed output feeds preamp or AV receiver
Asynchronous transfer ensures digital timing integrity
Medium output (1.2 volts) drives a wide range of headphones
32-bit ESS 9010 DAC with minimum-phase filter
DragonTail USB-A > USB-C:
Female USB-A to Male USB-C Adaptor
AudioQuest DragonTail-C Extender connects a USB-C output smartphone or computer to a DragonFly DAC.
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 HDMI audio and video. 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 HDMI cables.
Hard-Cell Foam Insulation Hard-Cell Foam (HCF) Insulation ensures critical signal-pair geometry. Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy. Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. Hard-Cell Foam Insulation is similar to the Foamed-PE used in AQ's more affordable Bridges & Falls cables, and is nitrogen-injected to create air pockets. Because nitrogen (like air) does not absorb energy and therefore does not release any energy from or into the conductor, distortion is reduced. In addition, the stiffness of the material allows the cable's conductors to maintain a stable relationship along the cable's full length, producing a stable impedance character and further minimizing distortion.
Carbon-Based Noise- and Crosstalk-Dissipation System This cable's negative conductors are covered with partially conductive Carbon-Loaded Polyethylene. This remarkable material reduces radio-frequency garbage being fed back into the amplifier. The sonic benefit is exactly the same reduction in "hash" and improved dimensionality that comes whenever RF interference is reduced in an audio circuit. In addition, a carbon layer damps interaction between positive and negative conductors, and an external Carbon-Based Noise-Dissipation System reduces external interference.
TECHNICAL SPECS
DragonFly Black:
Series: DragonFly
Output: 1.2 volts
DAC Chip: ESS ES9010 with minimum-phase fast roll-off filter
Volume Control: Analog Volume Control
Desktop Compatibility: Windows 7 and later; Apple 10.6.8 and later; Linux (no tech support provided)
Mobile Compatibility: Apple iOS 5 and later; Android 5.0 and later