AUDIOQUEST PEARL Micro USB

POLYETHYLENE INSULATION: Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is effectively part of an imperfect circuit. Insulating and circuit board materials all absorb energy (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. Pearl USB uses air-filled polyethylene foam insulation because air absorbs almost no energy and polyethylene is low-loss and has a benign distortion profile. Because of all the air in Foamed-PE, it causes much less of the blurring effect common to other materials.

TERMINATION: Precision gold-plated connectors are carefully connected with the best solder. Through the choice of flux and metallurgy, the AQ solder has been optimised to create a low-distortion connection. The difference you feel between the solder is a result of the quality of the connection. AQ solder does not have a high silver content because the more silver there is in the solder, the harder it is to make a good connection.

UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS DEVICE CLASS DEFINITION FOR AUDIO DEVICES: USB (Universal Serial BUS) was founded by a group of companies such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft (to name but a few) in order to give the world of personal computing a truly universal standard and means to connect devices such as hard disks, printers, cameras and, most importantly, audio components. Included in the original description are protocols for the uncontaminated transfer of audio via USB. Great care and sensitivity went into this. As a result, a computer connected to a USB-enabled digital-to-analogue converter can outperform the best compact disc players available today. AudioQuest is committed to contributing products that honour USB's ability to deliver cutting-edge performance on this wonderful new frontier.