Name: Silver Dragon Form Fit USB Cable
SKU: 233071

Product Details ＋

The Silver Dragon USB cable is our best selling cable at Moon Audio, and provide an extordinary amount of detail and resolution to your hi-fi system. The Silver Dragon Form Fit USB cable is designed to transfer digital audio from your source device (like a computer, phone, tablet, or a digital audio player) to a USB capable DAC. The Form Fit USB Cable is designed for portable device connections and is built to USB Audio specs. The Silver Dragon USB Cable is meant for audio data transfer only - meaning that this cable should not be used for high-speed data transmission. Because of the high-quality materials and cable geometry, our USB cables greatly reduce stock USB cable issues like packet loss and jitter.

Moon Audio builds cables for home, office, and portable solutions. Please see the notes below in our Description Tab to help you establish which USB connection is right for your application. From USB-A, B, C, and Lightning connectors, we make your cable to order, handcrafted in-house by our expert cable technicians.

We have optimized our USB cables for audio transmission of large high-resolution audio files. This product page is for form-fitted and portable cable length applications. If you need longer cable solutions, please see our Silver Dragon USB cable

Cable Design

The Silver Dragon was created with ultrapure silver conductors for the best in signal transfer for your digital music. The cable uses 99.99998% UP-OCC Stranded Silver 24AWG Teflon insulated stranded conductors with a double layer shield to ward off outside interference. The Silver Dragon USB is the most resolute USB cable on the market today for an amazing price point. Be prepared to be amazed at the difference it will make when transferring your computer audio catalog to your USB applications.

We offer a host of ultrashort cables to connect your portable devices. For more custom options please see the drop-down menus on this webpage to choose the selection you need.

Are USB Audio Cables Different from Regular USB Cables?

There's an important distinction to make when it comes to audio-specified . Audio USB cables like Moon Audio's and are not meant for usual data transmission in the way that you would connect a hard drive to your computer. This is why USB audio cables will not work for high-speed/superspeed data migration or fast-charging applications. Each connector type has a specific amount of pins that the conductors are attached to. Audio cables do not need all the pins for data that usual USB cables utilize. We typically use 4-5 pins for audio transfer, which is all you need. More pins mean faster rates, more data, more conductors, and more expensive cables.

When we say that a is meant for audio transmission only, this means that the cable should only be used for connecting your source to a DAC or music streamer (just as an example). The only thing that should be transmitted through the cable is your audio data. You might ask, why would I get a cable that only does audio when I can get a stock USB cable that does everything? Answer: the same reason why audiophiles and music lovers buy a standalone DAC, or a high-end preamplifier or music streamer. The fact is that a standalone device or devices meant to do one thing, perform better than do-it-all devices. Better materials, better quality construction, and the fact that something was designed specifically for one purpose means the same thing for cables.

Audio Only Needs USB 2.0 for Data Transfer - It Will Not Benefit From Newer USB Technology

USB Audio will not benefit from the technological advancements and speeds of USB 3.0 and up. A typcial or standard 24-bit/192 kHz high-resolution stereo audio file only takes about 20mbps of USB bandwidth. USB 2.0 transfer speeds max out at 480 mbps. There is simply no need for any high data transfer size/speed for high-resolution audio for the near future.

What is OTG?

There are two different configurations offered on this webpage. Normal USB signal transfer as well as OTG (on-The-Go) USB signal transfer. What is OTG? There are two different configurations offered on this webpage. Normal USB signal transfer as well as OTG (on-The-Go) USB signal transfer. What is OTG? USB OTG is a specification that allows USB devices, such as tablets or smartphones, to act as a host, allowing other USB devices, such as USB flash drives, digital cameras, mice or keyboards, or an external Dac to be attached to them. The USB connection is terminated slightly different than in a normal USB termination. This termination essentially tells the Android-based device to output a data stream. In the case we all care about, it is releasing digital audio so your external Digital to Analog Converter takes over control of processing the digital music on your Android based phone or tablet.

USB On-The-Go (OTG) is a standard available on many Android phones that allows portable devices to act as USB hosts. This is a great way to expand the utility of your smartphone or tablet. OTG protocol allows you to be able to connect external devices like a storage drive, camera, mouse, and keyboard to your smart device. The real benefit of this comes with transferring data. Before the OTG protocol, you would have to connect your phone to your laptop or computer, connect the external drive, flash drive, or SD card to the same computer, and initiate the data transfer through the computer. It was a tedious and time-consuming process.

With , you can now connect the external drive directly to the smartphone or tablet, in which case the device would act as a host (like the computer in the previous example), and transfer the data directly without the use of a middleman. It's a more efficient and easier way to transfer data to your device. In order to use OTG you'll need a suitable cable or adapter from your external device to your phone or tablet. There are lots of options here, and you'll need to make sure that your devices can support OTG for this process. If you have any questions feel free to and we'll be more than ha