Audioquest Dragon eARC HDMI Cable - 2.25 Meter

AudioQuest Dragon eARC HDMI Cable - 2.25 Meter

What It Does in Your System

Built for the One Cable That Carries Your Sound

Modern systems have quietly reorganized themselves around the TV. Streaming apps, the cable box, the game console — everything plugs into the display, and a single HDMI cable carries the audio back out to your receiver or soundbar over eARC. That one cable is now the most important audio connection in the room, and most people are using whatever came in a box.

AudioQuest's eARC-Priority approach concentrates its best materials exactly there. Dragon eARC is the top of that line, and at 2.25 meters this length reaches a receiver in an adjacent cabinet or a rack set to one side of a wall-mounted display.

100% Perfect-Surface Silver, Where the Audio Travels

In an eARC-Priority cable, the eARC data pair and the ground-reference drain get the same advanced materials AudioQuest puts in its flagship 48-Series cables — in Dragon eARC's case, 100% Perfect-Surface Silver rather than silver-plated copper. Solid silver is the best conductor available, and here it's carrying the audio that actually reaches your ears.

The main audio/video pairs use 0.5% silver-plated Long-Grain Copper. That's a deliberate allocation: full video capability with the material budget concentrated on the audio path, which is where you'll hear the difference.

Full 48Gbps Video, Nothing Given Up

This isn't an audio cable with video as an afterthought. Dragon eARC is a genuine 48-Series HDMI cable with the full 48Gbps of bandwidth, delivered by four balanced audio/video pairs running 12Gbps each — enough for resolutions up to 10K and refresh rates up to 8K/60 and 4K/120.

That means current-generation gaming, HDR, and every feature the HDMI 2.1 specification supports, with full backward compatibility for existing 4K displays.

Is This Right for You?

A few things to confirm before you order:

• This cable is designed for one specific job. It shines on the run between your TV's eARC/ARC output and a receiver or soundbar, where the audio signal travels back from the display. If you're connecting a source to a display and the audio never returns over that cable, a standard 48-Series model puts your money where it does more good.
• Check that both components support eARC. Look for an HDMI port labeled eARC or ARC on your TV and on your receiver or soundbar. Full eARC — the version carrying lossless and object-based audio — requires both ends to support it; older ARC is limited to compressed formats.
• Measure the real routing path. Two and a quarter meters covers a receiver in an adjacent cabinet or a rack beside the display, including the slack to dress the run behind the equipment. If the cable has to cross a room or run inside a wall, step up a length rather than pulling it taut.

Setup & Installation

Connect this cable to the HDMI port on your TV labeled eARC or ARC — usually only one port supports it — and to the corresponding eARC or ARC output on your receiver or soundbar. Then enable eARC or ARC in your TV's audio settings, and set the audio output to bitstream or passthrough so your receiver receives the untouched signal rather than one the TV has already decoded.

If eARC doesn't engage, check that HDMI-CEC is enabled on both components — many manufacturers give it a brand-specific name like Anynet+, Bravia Sync, or Simplink. Leave a gentle loop of slack behind the equipment so no weight hangs on the connectors, and avoid sharp bends where the cable turns behind a wall-mounted display.

Features & Specifications

100% Perfect-Surface Silver eARC Conductors
Solid silver on the eARC data pair and ground-reference drain — the same materials as AudioQuest's flagship 48-Series cables, concentrated on the audio path.

48Gbps Bandwidth
Four balanced audio/video pairs at 12Gbps each support resolutions to 10K, plus 8K/60 and 4K/120 refresh rates.

0.5% Silver-Plated Long-Grain Copper A/V Conductors
Silver plating over LGC on the video pairs improves noise dissipation while keeping full 48-Series video capability.

Advanced Noise-Dissipation with 72V DBS
AudioQuest's Dielectric-Bias System, graphene, and carbon layers work together against the Wi-Fi, cellular, and satellite interference that ordinary shielding no longer stops.

Specifications

• Length: 2.25 meters (approx. 7 ft 5 in)
• Bandwidth: 48Gbps
• HDMI Specification: 2.1
• Maximum Resolution: Up to 10K; 8K/60 and 4K/120
• eARC Conductors: 100% Perfect-Surface Silver
• Ground-Reference: 100% Perfect-Surface Silver
• A/V Conductors: 0.5% silver-plated Long-Grain Copper
• Noise Dissipation: 72V Dielectric-Bias System, graphene, carbon, directionality
• Supported Features: eARC, ARC, HDR, HDMI Ethernet channel
• Backward Compatibility: Full, with existing 4K displays
• Quantity: Single cable

Frequently Asked Questions

What makes an "eARC-Priority" cable different?
AudioQuest concentrates its most advanced conductor materials on the eARC data pair and ground-reference drain — the path carrying audio from your TV back to your receiver — while the video pairs use excellent but less costly silver-plated copper. For systems where the TV is the audio source, that puts the money exactly where you'll hear it.

Will it still handle 4K/120 gaming?
Yes. This is a full 48-Series cable with the complete 48Gbps of bandwidth, so nothing on the video side is compromised — 8K/60, 4K/120, HDR, and the full HDMI 2.1 feature set are all supported.

Do I need eARC, or is ARC enough?
ARC handles compressed surround formats like Dolby Digital and DTS. eARC has the bandwidth for lossless and object-based audio including Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, which is where this cable's silver conductors earn their keep. Both ends of the connection need to support eARC for it to engage.

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