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Really... Just One’s and Zero’s? USB, FireWire®, Ethernet, eSATA join HDMI on the Digital frontier! Ever since the first CD players in 1983, the credibility debate in audio has been over whether “bits are bits,” and there’s no more to it. Ever since 1983, differences in digital audio performance have been clear to all who would listen, and differences between digital cables have ranged from minor to jaw-dropping amazing. Now, the audio world is going through an evolution maybe even more profound than the transition to CDs: Digital audio files, whether on a spinning disc, streaming from the internet, or resident on a hard drive or a flash drive, are offering wonderful new opportunity for convenience ... and for fantastic performance. AudioQuest brings the same sensitivity, insight, and technology to today’s new digital transfer modes as we’ve brought to Digital Coax, AES/EBU balanced digital, Toslink and ST fiber optic cables for the last 28 years. There are particulars to each digital format, however “jitter,” time-based shifting and smearing of data, is the same enemy it has always been ... AudioQuest employs all its proven techniques for minimizing this data damage: Better metals, better geometry, better dielectric, DBS (Dielectric-Bias System), NDS (Noise-Dissipation System), and other ingredients required to finesse each specific application. Whether you use buds with an iPod, a 3.5mm-plug analog cable from a computer, or USB cable into a DAC (Digital Audio Converter), whether playing 128K files, lossless 44.1 (CD quality), or 24/96, it’s a bright and wonderful day in audio!
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