AudioQuest Pearl 1.5m USB Type-A to Micro-B Cable

Transfer your photos, videos, music and other media faster and safer than ever before with the AudioQuest Pearl USB Cable. When transferring audio around your home, it's imperative to maintain precise signal timing to ensure the audio stays true to its original state. That's where Pearl comes in. High speed, low latency and low timing jitter are just some of the advantages Pearl offers you when sending your digital files over long distances. Solid long-grain copper conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter, while solid, high-density polyethylene insulation absorbs energy, and gold-plated nickel connections ensure proper termination.

Solid Long-Grain Copper (LGC) Conductors:
In a conventional multi-strand cable, distortion caused by electrical and magnetic strand interaction is compounded as each strand changes position within the bundle. In an AQ Semi-Solid Concentric cable, strands within the bundle maintain their fixed relationships, significantly reducing distortion. Long-Grain Copper (LGC) allows a smoother and clearer sound than cables using regular OFHC (Oxygen-Free High-Conductivity) copper. LGC has fewer oxides within the conducting material, less impurities, less grain boundaries, and definitively better performance.

Hard-Cell Foam Insulation:
Hard-Cell Foam (HCF) Insulation ensures critical signal-pair geometry. Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy. Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. Hard-Cell Foam Insulation is similar to the Foamed-PE used in our more affordable Bridges & Falls cables, and is nitrogen-injected to create air pockets. Because nitrogen (like air) does not absorb energy and therefore does not release any energy from or into the conductor, distortion is reduced. In addition, the stiffness of the material allows the cable's conductors to maintain a stable relationship along the cable's full length, producing a stable impedance character and further minimizing distortion.

• Lengths: 1.5m