This bundle includes: (1) AudioQuest DragonFly Red 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 Red USB DAC Bundle with DragonTail USB-A to USB-C Extender delivers powerful, high-fidelity sound from your laptop, tablet, or smartphone. With its upgraded ESS Sabre DAC, 2.1-volt output for driving demanding headphones, and MQA support, DragonFly Red transforms everyday listening into a reference-quality experience. Paired with the DragonTail USB-C extender, you get expanded compatibility and effortless portable hi-fi.
AudioQuest DragonFly Red USB DAC Bundle with DragonTail USB-A to USB-C Extender
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This bundle includes: (1) AudioQuest DragonFly Red 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 Red USB DAC Bundle with DragonTail USB-A to USB-C Extender delivers powerful, high-fidelity sound from your laptop, tablet, or smartphone. With its upgraded ESS Sabre DAC, 2.1-volt output for driving demanding headphones, and MQA support, DragonFly Red transforms everyday listening into a reference-quality experience. Paired with the DragonTail USB-C extender, you get expanded compatibility and effortless portable hi-fi.
FEATURES
Dragonfly Cobalt:
High-Performance DAC Chip (ESS ES9016): Delivers cleaner, more accurate sound by bypassing the audio circuitry of your devices, ensuring high-quality audio playback.
Advanced ESS Headphone Amplifier: Provides powerful and detailed audio output, with better control and grip over your music compared to the DragonFly Black, allowing for more dynamic headphone listening experiences.
Bit-Perfect 64-Bit Digital Volume Control: The volume control is integrated directly into the DAC chip itself, ensuring the highest level of precision and zero loss in audio quality, even when adjusting volume.
Wide Device Compatibility: Works with a variety of devices, including desktops (Windows, Mac, Linux) and mobile devices (iOS and Android), offering flexibility and high-quality sound across multiple platforms.
Compact, Portable Design: At only 62mm x 19mm x 12mm, DragonFly Red is small and portable, making it perfect for on-the-go audiophiles who want high-fidelity audio without the bulk.
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 Cobalt:
Series: DragonFly
Output: 2.1 volts
DAC Chip: ESS ES9016 with minimum-phase fast roll-off filter
Volume Control: 64-Bit Bit-Perfect Digital 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
