Dragon Cables for Aurender Music Servers

MOON AUDIO | MOON AUDIO STAFF/SEP 6TH 2020

We recommend using Dragon Audio Cables to maximize the performance of your Aurender home audio system. Aurender puts a lot of thought into its music servers, equipping them with state-of-the-art features and capabilities. Dragon cables will be the icing on the cake that will elevate your system to the next level.

Dragon cables are made with ultra pure, single-crystal silver or copper strands. Our wire is void of impurities and crystalline boundaries, leaving nothing between you and your music. When you mix Dragon Audio Cables with the Aurender product line, you are creating an environment designed by and for music lovers.

Dragon Audio Cables: Deciphering the Differences

When you see Black, Silver, and/or Blue options for our analog and digital Dragon cables, you may be wondering how to choose.

With analog cables (interconnects, speaker cables, and headphone cables), you will find variations in coloration or sound signature. With these cables, the Silver Dragon lends detail and clarity with top-end sizzle; the Black Dragon enhances the bottom end and gives a warm, full sound; and the Blue Dragon is calm and neutral.

With digital cables, the sound characteristics are more about the resolution and detail in the music. We find the characteristics of digital cables act similar to that of digital filters options on DACs. Shaping the filter on the D to A with either a sharp or gentle roll-off sounds similar to our ears. Thus, we only have a couple of digital cable options.

In the coax SPDIF category, for example, we offer a Silver Dragon digital cable that is the most resolute of our digital cables and based on our UP-OCC silver conductor technology. It was a no-holds-bared design for the best possible signal transfer. It is also the most flexible cable for tight turns in your equipment rack.

The Black Dragon is a copper-based digital cable and has an extra layer of shielding, utilizing a capacitor as a noise blocker. It was designed for noisy environments, when computer audio cards were more popular and required cabling that would ward of interference from being behind a cable ridden noisy computer environment. It was also intended for use in studios where cables run all over the place and quiet signal transfer is a must.

USB Cables

All Aurenders come with a USB output. In most cases, this is the most desirable Audio output. The USB can output PCM audio streams as well as DSD.

Upgrading to Dragon USB cables will help you optimize your Aurender home audio system. The most important consideration with USB cables is that they are designed to true USB specifications. In other words, the geometry of a USB cable is very important to the transfer of digital data transmission. Many of the cheap USB cables you buy at a computer or electronics store don't follow the standard specifications required for USB cables, resulting in potential issues with data packet loss, etc. Dragon USB cables were designed to adhere to USB specifications and use the highest quality materials to ensure a proper and protected digital transfer.

Moon Audio produces both a Silver Dragon and a Black Dragon USB cable. The Silver Dragon utilizes UP-OCC silver and the Black Dragon uses UP-OCC copper. The silver is more resolute, but really both are fantastic digital transfer cables. In most cases, this is the most flexible digital transmission medium in terms of data transfer over the other digital cables we discuss on this page. The USB cable will allow for both PCM and DSD transfer from your Aurender to your DAC. Whether USB sounds better vs. the other mediums we have talked about really comes down to the design of the digital circuit in your DAC. So if the Aurender model you purchased has more than one option and so does your DAC, we recommend experimenting to see which is most desirable to your ears.

Silver Dragon USB cable for Chord Qutest DAC

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Dragon Cables for Aurender Music Servers

Dragon Audio Cables: Deciphering the Differences

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