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Black Dragon Headphone Adapter Cable for Astell&Kern Music Player
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Features
Quickly switches from balanced (Astell&Kern, Onkyo, similar) to single-ended connections for phones and other devices
4 x 21.5 AWG UP-OCC pure copper conductors, 99.99998% purity (7N), Teflon-insulated
Kevlar-reinforced strands add durability against constant flexing
Double-shielded design in a polyethylene jacket for added protection
Headphone connectors soldered directly to conductors using Cardas silver solder for a clean signal path
Warm, smooth, musical presentation—great for bright or bass-light headphones
Can also be used for custom headphone hacks on Grado, Sennheiser, AKG, and m
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Black Dragon Headphone Adapter Cable for Astell&Kern Music Player
This is our Black Dragon adapter cable for Astell & Kern Music Player to complement and extend your main Black Dragon Headphone cable V2. Adapter cables make it more versatile to do quick changes from balanced for the Astell & Kern, Onkyo, or similar connection to a single-ended connection for devices like your phone.
Important Notes:
- Cable Length: 0.5 feet
- Headphone Connection: 2.5mm TRRS Moon Audio Female Balanced Mini [Gold]
- Amp Connection: 3.5mm TRS Oyaide Mini [Rhodium]
Quality You Can Trust
Most stock headphone cables are made of poor, ultra-thin conductors that work as a bottleneck for sound. Poor geometries, no shielding, rubber jackets, and a whole host of other issues in OEM cables can limit the performance of the headphone driver in terms of clarity and definition.
Dragon Cables are handcrafted from quality materials in Moon Audio's headquarters in Cary, North Carolina. All of our cables are created with ultra-pure, single-crystal silver and 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.
Black Dragon Sound Signature
The Black Dragon is warm and smooth with a musical presentation. Copper strands enhance the body, shape, and immediacy of the music. The detail and expansiveness of the Black Dragon make it a flexible fit where a broad range of musical genres are played. It can also improve bass frequencies on bass-light headphones.
The smooth, musical quality makes it a perfect fit for headphones that tend to sound a bit edgy or bright. Despite its warmth, the Black Dragon does not have a laid-back, lush sound. It is much closer to neutral, making it a very natural-sounding cable.
For more information on finding your signature sound, visit our Sound Signature Guide.
Like the Blue Dragon Headphone cable, the adapter extension cable offers the same wire geometry. These adapters are utilized to create a more flexible connection system for your headphone audio system.
The Black Dragon can by used not only as a detachable cable for many varieties of headphones, but it can also be used to hack your headphones. We can "hard-wired" to just about any headphone such as Grado, Sennheiser or AKG. You can also upgrade your exisiting headphones that have detachable cables with our Black Dragon. There are many connections to a variety of headphones to choose from on the menu above.
We use 4 x 21.5AWG Teflon insulated stranded conductors using pure single crystallized UP-OCC pure copper with 7N purity 99.99998%. This means more music, clarity, and sound quality gets to your ears as purity in cable construction, cable design, and quality of materials make a noticeable difference in the sound quality of your headphones.
Each conductor is made up of a special, varying-size stranding geometry. The copper stranding is mixed with Kevlar stranding to reinforce the conductor. Making it stronger overall and less prone to failure due to the harsh, constant flexing a headphone cable receives.
The conductors are then surrounded by cotton and then a layer of Teflon tubing. The new v2 version is now also double shielded and placed in a polyethylene jacket for further protection.
The Headphone connectors are soldered directly to the conductors of the cable. The splicing method used by other cable companies, which uses a stock cable's connectors, is poor. We have developed many of the hard-to-find connection options utilizing plastic injection-molded connectors. Great expense has been taken to bring as many hard-to-find connection systems for the most popular headphones. If you can't find the connection system you desire, please contact us.
The wire is soldered to the connector with Cardas silver solder.
What is UP-OCC?
UP-OCC stands for Ultra-Pure Ohno Continuous Casting (OCC). This is not a material, but a way of extruding silver and copper to prevent any impurities and fractures in the crystalline structure of the wire. The wire is drawn very slowly to cast as an almost perfect single-crystal small-diameter conductor. The resulting purity and the size of the cast wire make a tremendous difference, and there is less damage to the near-perfect cast state. We find that this UP-OCC process produces a very clean and close to neutral sound in our copper-based and silver-based cables.
Tailored Cables for Any Setup
If you have any questions about the right terminations for your setup, don't hesitate to reach out via our Contact Us page. When purchasing, be sure to fill out the 'List your devices to ensure compatibility' field, as this helps us match your gear with the perfect connection. Whether you're using standard equipment or have a unique configuration, we've got you covered. We specialize in creating custom cables for almost any setup you can imagine. Have a rare or unusual connector? Chances are, we can build exactly what you need. Let us know your requirements, and we’ll take care of the rest.
| Parameter | Specification |
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| Physical Specifications | |
| Conductors | 4 x 21.5 AWG |
| Material | 99.99998% UP-OCC Copper |
| Construction | Varying Size Stranding |
| Solder | Cardas Silver Solder |
| Shielding | Aluminum Foil, Braided Wire Shield |
| Jacket | Black Polyethylene |
| Format | Adapter |
| Connectors | Female 2.5mm, Male 3.5mm |
| Technical Specifications | |
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| Application | Fullsize Headphone |
| Sound Signature | Warm & Musical |
| Break-In Time | 40 Hours |
| Warranty | |
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Dragon Audio Cables are covered by a one-year limited warranty against material or manufacturing defects. For more information, visit our Warranty Terms page. |