Listed in The Absolute Sound 2012 High-End Audio Buyer's Guide
With Solid 5% Silver-Plated Conductors
Get the big silver advantage with Carbon Mini-USB cable from AudioQuest's 'Indulgence Series.' Boasting solid 5% silver-plated Long-Grain Copper (LGC) conductors, Carbon delivers low jitter, low distortion audio. Enjoy Carbon Mini-USB cable and experience how good digital music can sound.
AudioQuest Carbon USB cable was honored by being included in The Absolute Sound 2012 High-End Audio Buyer's Guide. According to the magazine, "One of the go-to USB cables for computer-audio fans and highly recommended by USB pioneer and guru Gordon Rankin of Wavelength Audio, the Carbon is neutral without sounding bleached, dynamic without sounding piercing, detailed without sounding analytical."
The AudioQuest Mini-USB Series
Whether music is being transferred from an external hard drive, or a computer is being hooked up to powered desktop speakers, or a professional DAC is being fed through its Mini-USB input, these AudioQuest cables all make a very big difference. This is just as true for a 128 K file as for a 24-bit, 96 kHz file. Respect the music, however it is packaged!
To respect different budgets and different applications, AudioQuest offers five models of low-jitter, low-distortion Mini-USB cables featuring better materials, critical signal-pair geometry, and for the top models AudioQuest's amazingly effective Dielectric-Bias System.
The Indulgence Series
AudioQuest has a well-earned reputation as a manufacturer of exceptional analog audio cables. However, the advent of USB presented a new set of design challenges that needed to be solved. In order for AudioQuest to maximize audio performance over USB, new materials and higher levels of manufacturing precision were employed to handle the high-speed, wide-bandwidth signals.
Several of the analog audio design elements that have proven so important over the years turned out to be meaningful to USB signal design. Solid core conductor technology, conductor metallurgy, insulation material and overall precision of manufacture have all been carefully optimized to create a superior line of USB cables.
The Next Evolution of USB Cable Performance
With the Indulgence Series, AudioQuest is proud to introduce the next evolution of cable performance. Why the word "indulgence"? When we set aside the time for audio/video entertainment in the home we are, after all, allowing ourselves a bit of well-earned personal indulgence. We allow ourselves time for emotional transportation via video and sound.
There are huge differences in the sound of USB cables. As part of AudioQuest's re-examination of USB cable design, specific attention was paid to maximizing the sonic performance of USB. AQ's Indulgence USB series pushes USB sonic performance to new levels. While test equipment is excellent at tracking control errors or ensuring data pass through, no computer can compete with the human ear when it comes to perceiving the subtle but crucial audio errors and distortion that can reduce the enjoyment of your music and video files via USB.
The Engineering and Construction Edge
AudioQuest's least expensive USB cables begins with Long-Grain Copper (LGC), and each subsequent model increases the amount of silver-plate used, culminating in Diamond USB, whose conductors are made using solid Perfect-Surface Silver (PSS). Solid Polyethylene insulation ensures stable conductor geometry while minimizing insulation induced phase distortion. On the two top USB cables, Coffee and Diamond, AudioQuest's patented Dielectric-Bias System (DBS) polarizes the insulation, providing a drop in the perceived noise floor and an increase in dynamic contrast. | 
