Bronze Dragon Audio Cables: Everything You Need to Know
TL;DR:
- The Bronze Dragon line is now complete, including a Headphone Cable, Speaker Cable, Power Cable, and Premium Phono Cable, alongside IEM and interconnect options.
- The sound is warm, dynamic, and natural, leaning slightly warm of neutral without sounding lush or laid-back.
- The Bronze Dragon Headphone, Speaker, Power, and Premium Phono cables combine graphene with ultra-pure single-crystal copper, adding strength and flexibility.
- Bronze Dragon Audio Cables are custom-built in-house to your exact connection specifications with a wide range of termination options.
- Manufacturers often treat cables as a cost-cutting afterthought, and upgrading to a Dragon Audio Cable can unlock performance your gear already has.
Explore the Complete Bronze Dragon Audio Cable Line
Moon Audio's Bronze Dragon Audio Cables bring high-quality materials and expert craftsmanship together for exceptional sound quality and dynamics. With the newest additions (the Bronze Dragon Headphone Cable, Speaker Cable, Power Cable, and Premium Phono Cable) the Bronze Dragon line is now complete. That means you can run one consistent cable family through your entire hi-fi audio system, from the wall outlet to your turntable, speakers, headphones, and IEMs.
What sets the four newest Bronze Dragon Cables apart is graphene. They pair this ultra-strong, highly conductive material with UP-OCC single-crystal copper to deliver a cleaner, more efficient signal. Every Bronze Dragon cable shares the same musical DNA: a warm-to-neutral, detailed sound with real authority and none of the dryness some high-end cables suffer from. Each cable is custom-built in-house at Moon Audio to your exact connection specifications, with a wide range of termination options. Below, we break down the Bronze Dragon sound signature, explain what graphene does, and walk through the construction of each new cable so you can find the right fit for your setup.
The Bronze Dragon Sound Signature
The Bronze Dragon is dynamic, detailed, and musical. It leans on the warm side of neutral, but is anything but dry-sounding. The Bronze Dragon makes a bold statement with a clear presentation and authority.
The smooth, musical quality of the Bronze Dragon makes it a perfect fit for headphones that tend to sound a bit edgy or bright. Despite its warmth, the Bronze Dragon does not have a laid-back, lush sound and is much closer to neutral, making it a very natural-sounding cable. As a flexible-sounding cable, it can match the sonic characteristics of your sound system.
Built-In House: Bronze Dragon Craftsmanship
We make high-quality audio cables for virtually every setup. From speaker cables to IEMs, interconnects, headphones, and more, our Bronze Dragon is the perfect partner for your audiophile gear.
At the moment, the Bronze Dragon Headphone Cable, Bronze Dragon Speaker Cable, Bronze Dragon Power Cable, and Bronze Dragon Premium Phono Cable are the only cables to feature Graphene, but all Bronze Dragon Cables sport the unique properties of Copper Conductors. To get acquainted with our Bronze Dragon line, learn about the newest cables below.
What is Graphene?
Graphene is a single-atom-thick, 2-dimensional material composed of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice geometry. This unique material is 200 times stronger than steel but incredibly flexible without added weight, providing a more efficient transmission of electrical signals. It adds strength, flexibility, and conductivity to the metal it is bound with.
Bronze Dragon Headphone Cable
The Bronze Dragon Headphone Cable is a new Graphene Copper conductor-based cable using 4 x24 AWG Teflon-Insulated 99.99998% GUP-OCC Stranded Graphene and Copper conductors.
- 4x24 AWG Teflon-Insulated 99.99998% GUP-OCC Stranded Graphene and Copper Conductors
The base of the Bronze Dragon Headphone Cable is composed of OCC copper–single-crystal continuous cast copper, or Ohno Continuous Cast. OCC is a manufacturing process that prevents any crystalline fractures or minimal grain boundaries, which essentially become potholes that the electrical signal must bypass.
The copper used in the Bronze Dragon Headphone Cable is devoid of all possible impurities that can change the coloration of the sound. With almost no distortion compared to ordinary copper conductors, each conductor is made up of a special, varying-sized stranded geometry. The Graphene Copper strandings are mixed with Kevlar strands to reinforce the conductor, making it stronger overall and less prone to failure due to the harsh, constant flexing that headphone cables experience.
The wire’s geometry, along with the Graphene, helps improve conductivity. Each conductor is encapsulated in a Teflon casing and then surrounded by cotton and a thin layer of aluminum foil. It is then protected by a 100% coverage braided tinned copper secondary shield and placed in a polyethylene jacket for further protection. The wire is soldered to a connector using high-quality Cardas silver solder.
Bronze Dragon Speaker Cable
The Bronze Dragon Speaker Cable is a new Graphene Copper conductor-based cable using 4x12 AWG Graphene UP-OCC copper conductors. The conductors in the Bronze Dragon Speaker Cable are free from impurities and have virtually no crystal boundaries.
The Bronze Dragon Speaker Cable is dynamic and musical, delivering an incredibly tight and controlled sound quality with a powerful bass response.
- 4x12 AWG Graphene-UPOCC Copper Conductors
- Available in a bi-wire configuration
The Bronze Dragon Speaker Cable uses a 5-layer conductor geometry, known as concentric stranding. A true concentric wire is characterized by a central wire surrounded by one or more layers of helically laid wires in a geometric pattern, with alternately reversed lay direction and increasing lay length. Each layer is a different strand size. Each layer's twist rotation is the opposite of the layer below. The wire’s shape, along with the Graphene, helps improve conductivity.
At Moon Audio, we are always trying to improve conductor conductivity, which helps provide the purest signal transmission. See more Cable specifications below. The conductors are then wrapped in Cotton and Mylar to keep a consistent geometry. The outer jacket utilizes PVC, providing good flexibility.
Bronze Dragon Power Cable
Composed of 3x12 AWG Graphene-UPOCC copper conductors, the Bronze Dragon Power Cable is a high-quality cable designed to be used with all equipment in mind: From DVD/CD Players and DACs to Home Theater Processors/Preamps and Monster amps. This cable is dead quiet and rejects all EMI and RFI interference.
- 3x12 AWG Graphene-UPOCC Copper Conductors
Most stock Power Cables are made of small overall-gauge conductors that work as a bottleneck for providing the raw power your equipment desires. Poor geometries, no shielding, rubber jackets, and a whole host of other issues with OEM cables can limit your system from performing its best. Of all the cables in your system, the shielding on your power cable is super critical. Power cable shielding is crucial for protecting against electromagnetic interference (EMI), ensuring signal integrity, and preventing damage to the cable and surrounding equipment. Shielding also plays a role in grounding and grounding fault detection.
Our Bronze Dragon Power Cable is created with ultra-pure, single-crystal copper strands and engineered to provide the cleanest, most musical presentation. Our wire is void of impurities and crystalline boundaries, leaving nothing between you and your music. Each conductor utilizes a dual-layer insulation to help maintain flexibility. The conductors are then wrapped in Cotton and Mylar to keep a consistent geometry. The outer jacket utilizes PVC, providing good flexibility, and a double-layer shielding–the first comprised of an Aluminum Mylar Foil, followed by a second shield composed of 100% pure copper braided shielding–is used to ward off outside interference and reduce negative interactions with other cables nearby.
Bronze Dragon Premium Phono Cable
The Bronze Dragon Premium Phono Cable will enhance the performance of your vinyl collection, adding musicality, dynamics, and detail for an elevated listening experience. It's the perfect bridge between your turntable and phono preamplifier, ensuring pristine audio transmission with every note.
- 2.15 AWG Teflon-insulated stranded conductors with a dual-layer shield
Sold as a single cable option, the Bronze Dragon Premium Phono Cable can be configured in a DIN to RCA, DIN to XLR, or RCA to RCA, all with ground leads for your Turntable to Phono Preamplifier (preamp) connection. The Bronze Dragon Premium Phono Cable promises unrivaled fidelity and performance, making it a must-have for any audiophile seeking the pinnacle of sound quality in their hi-fi setup. This is the Turntable Cable for you.
Crafted with precision and expertise, the Bronze Dragon Premium Phono Cable uses Graphene with its UP-OCC copper strandings. What does this mean for your Phono setup? Phono cartridges operate on very low voltages. Keeping resistance and capacitance as minimal as possible and increasing conductivity improves the end result of the signal stream. Graphene, being a super conductor, teamed up with the purest copper available, that being UP-OCC, guarantees the best sonic result.
Explore the Entire Bronze Dragon Line
Why Dragon Cables?
You’ve heard the saying that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, right? Well, the same applies to your brand new audiophile-grade headphone or other audio components. The weakest link, in this case, is your stock audio cable or the cheap interconnects the manufacturer threw in the box just to get you up and running. Why is the audio cable always an afterthought, when it’s just as important as the rest of your system? At Moon Audio, we use the purest and best raw materials in our cables to unveil your music. We believe that materials matter and your audio cables should have the same care and craftsmanship that manufacturers put into their audio components and headphones. Audio cables are ultimately the connection to your music. The fact remains that cabling is often considered the last priority to that of the main product and a means to cut down the overall production costs. It’s as simple as that. Dragon Cables elevate every note - as if you were hearing your favorite music for the very first time.
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