Dragon Cables
Blue Dragon Headphone Adapter Cable for Astell & Kern Music Player
$125.00 USDFeatures
Quickly switches from balanced (Astell&Kern, Onkyo, similar) to single-ended connections for phones and other devices
High-purity UP-OCC pure copper conductors using the Ohno Continuous Casting Process
Kevlar-reinforced strands add durability against constant flexing
Shielded design in a polyethylene jacket for quieter performance with no microphonics
Neutral, natural sound that enhances micro-dynamics without altering tonal balance
Praised by Tyll Hertsens of Innerfidelity.com, who recommends Moon Audio as a reputable cable supplier
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Blue Dragon Headphone Adapter Cable for Astell & Kern Music Player
This is our Blue Dragon adapter cable for Astell & Kern Music Player to complement and extend your main Blue Dragon Headphone cable V3. 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.
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.
Blue Dragon Sound Signature
The Blue Dragon is designed to be neutral and natural sounding. It improves dynamics without changing the original flavor of the headphone. Look at it as cleaning your eyeglasses, you want the clearest vision possible. The Blue Dragon does just that; it adds more of what the headphone already has but just makes it better. You get to hear more of the micro-dynamics of the music without tipping the sound signature forward or making it laid back.
The Blue Dragon pairs well with all genres, especially music full of stringed instruments. You get a better sense of reverberation and quicker decay of the notes. the piano note decays are quicker almost as if the keys have just had a tune-up. We love this cable with Folk, Americana, Jazz, and singer song writer. Again there is no right or wrong to which Dragon cabl you choose. It is about what is right or your ears.
Cable Design
The Blue Dragon V3 Headphone Cable has been designed to match the Silver Dragon V3 Headphone cable, but with a high-purity copper conductor using the Ohno Continuous Casting Process. The Blue Dragon V3 has the same geometry structure as the Silver Dragon V3, only it uses UP-OCC pure copper.
For example, the Sennheiser HD600 has long been one of the best headphones for classical music on the high-end headphone market due to its smooth, warm sound signature. The HD600 is not as dark and laid back as the Sennheiser HD650, and so the neutrality of the Blue Dragon V3 is the better fit for the HD600 signature. It is a great cable for a wide variety of music genres.
If you are using a very warm tube amp and a forward headphone, the Blue Dragon is also a good choice to keep the sound signature the same. The Blue Dragon V3 is also the most flexible of the full-size headphone cables and makes a good choice for headphones that use a single entry connection point, like many of the Ultrasone headphones.
"I like the...Moon Audio Blue Dragon. There are numerous cable makers out there...With cables, the devil is in the details. I strongly suggest using cable makers with long years of experience and a good reputation...If you have headphones with a hard-wired stock cable and would like to have them replaced, again, it is very important to find a reputable supplier who is very familiar and competent with this type of work. I'll happily recommend Moon Audio as one such supplier."
Tyll Hertsens, Innerfidelity.com | February 26, 2013
This Blue Dragon Headphone V3 headphone cable can be a replacement cable for Sennheiser HD800, HD650, HD600, and HD580 headphones or any other Sennheiser headphones that have the 2-pin connection system.
We also modify it for Ultrasone, Sony Qualia, and any other headphone that uses a connector attachment system. This headphone cable can also be hardwired to Grado's and Audio Technica headphones. If it can be done, Moon Audio can modify it!
Each conductor of the Blue Dragon V3 is made up of a special, varying-size stranding geometry. The copper stranding is mixed with Kevlar stranding to reinforce the conductor. This makes 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 tape.
This most recent version is now also shielded and placed in a polyethylene jacket for further protection. The V3 is also quieter than the V2 with no microphonics.
Hack Your Headphones
Dragon Cables are an easy do-it-yourself upgrade to your favorite headphones with detachable cables. With a wide array of connection options, a plug-and-play cable is just a few clicks away.
We also offer custom headphone hacks for your hard-wired cans, like many Grado, Sennheiser, or AKG headphones. For more information on custom headphone modifications, visit our Hack Your Headphones portal.
| Parameter | Specification |
|---|---|
| Cable Design Specifications | |
| Conductors | 4 x 24AWG |
| Material | 99.99998% UP-OCC Copper |
| Construction | Varying Size Stranding |
| Solder | Cardas Silver Solder |
| Shielding | Teflon, Foil, Braided Wire Shield |
| Jacket | Blue Polyethylene |
| Format | Adapter |
| Connectors | Female 2.5mm, Male 3.5mm |
| Product Features | |
| Application | Fullsize Headphone |
| Sound Signature | Neutral |
| Break-In Time | 40 Hours |
| Warranty Information | |
| Coverage | One-Year Limited Warranty |
| Protection | Against Material or Manufacturing Defects |