Dragon Cables
Black Dragon 1/4" Headphone Splitter Cable
$250.00 USDBlack Dragon 1/4" Headphone Splitter Cable
The Black Dragon Headphone Splitter Cable is a special adapter version of the Black Dragon V2 headphone cable designed to split your 1/4-inch headphone signal to two outputs. This adapter comes in a length of one foot.
Minimum length of 1 foot required when doing any dual connectors like Dual RCAs.
Quality You Can Trust
Most stock cables are made of poor, ultra-thin conductors with poor geometries, rubber jackets, and other issues that can limit the performance of your equipment.
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.
Black Dragon Cable Design
The Black Dragon adapter cable offers the same wire geometry as the Black Dragon V2 Headphone Cable. Add even more flexibility to your headphone system by splitting your signal to multiple devices.
Black Dragon Cables are constructed with four 21.5AWG conductors. These Teflon-insulated conductors are stranded from pure, single-crystallized UP-OCC copper with a 7N purity level. That means more music, clarity, and sound quality in your ears.
Each conductor is composed of a special varying-size stranding, mixing in Kevlar stranding to reinforce the geometry. The result is a stronger cable that is less prone to failure from the constant flexing a headphone cable receives. The conductors are surrounded by cotton and a layer of Teflon tubing, then double-shielded and placed in a polyethylene jacket for further protection.
The connectors on all of our Dragon Cables are soldered directly to the conductors of the cable with Cardas silver solder for optimal performance. The splicing method used by other cable companies impedes performance by using inferior connections to stock cable connectors. We have gone the extra mile to develop our own plastic injection molds for hard-to-find connection options in order to provide the most reliable, high-quality cables for all of your high-end audio needs. If you can't find the connection system you desire, let us know!
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 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 |
|---|---|
| Physical Specifications | |
| Product Dimensions / Weight |
122mm / 4.80” (H) x 444mm / 17.48” (W) x 356mm / 14.02” (D) Allow extra depth for cable connectors 14 kg / 30.86 lbs |
| Finish | Black or silver painted machined aluminium with crystal LED display |
| Audio Specifications | |
| Digital-to-Analogue Conversion | dCS Ring DAC and Digital Processing Platform on flex-rigid PCB |
| Upsampling | Multi-stage DXD with switchable DSD (DSD, DSDx2) |
| Filters |
PCM Mode: Up to 6 filters per sample rate (trade-off between image rejection and transient response) DSD Mode: 4 filters + Filter 5 for improved transient response |
| Crossfeed Settings |
Standard crossfeed dCS Expanse 1 (E1) dCS Expanse 2 (E2) |
| MQA |
Full decoding and rendering of MQA data from Network and USB2 inputs. Final rendering of unfolded MQA data only from other inputs. |
| Technical Specifications | |
| Electronics Platform | StreamUnlimited Stream800 |
| Automatic Mains Voltage Switching | Yes |
| Digital Inputs |
2 x AES/EBU on 3-pin XLR, 44.1–192 kS/s (dual AES up to 384 kS/s) 1 x S/PDIF BNC Coax, 44.1–192 kS/s 1 x S/PDIF RCA, 44.1–192 kS/s 1 x Toslink Optical, 44.1–96 kS/s 1 x USB Type B, 44.1–384 kS/s PCM and DSD, DSDx2 Async Mode 1 x USB Type A for mass storage devices |
| Word Clock I/O |
2 x Word Clock Inputs on 75 Ω BNC connectors (TTL sensitive) 1 x Word Clock Output on 1 x BNC connector (TTL compatible, output in Master mode) |
| Software Updates | Downloaded via dCS Mosaic Control app |
| Local Control |
dCS Mosaic Control app for unit configuration and playback RS232 interface (via 3rd party automation) Optional dCS Universal Remote available |
| Residual Noise | Better than –113 dB0, 20 Hz - 20 kHz unweighted (6V output setting) |
| Spurious Responses | Better than –105 dB0, 20 Hz – 20 kHz |
| L-R Crosstalk | Better than –115 dB0, 20 Hz – 20 kHz |
