AudioQuest Forest | USB Cables

Upgrade your USB cable with our AudioQuest PREMIUM Level Forest Cables Silver-plated (0.5%) copper conductors for exceptional sound quality Low-jitter and Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation design for USB audio Premium strain-relief design for long-life and durability Hard-Cell Foam dielectric material reduces distortion **Special Orders: We can special order any cable in any available length or termination you need from the AudioQuest Retail Catalog. You can email, or message us to place a special order. Bloom's Take For high-resolution digital audio, the superiority of the cable matters, and Radio Frequency (RF) energy (AKA "noise") is the mortal enemy of quality sound. AudioQuest has been the most significant cable supplier to the high-end specialist market for years. Their portfolio has sold in several thousand outlets in over sixty countries, and we feel they deliver excellent value and performance to maximize and highlight your listening experience. The Forest line represents our Premium Level upgrade for your USB digital signal cables. Elite Level Cinnamon USB Upgrade Cables Ultimate Level Carbon USB Upgrade Cables From AudioQuest Semi-Solid Concentric 0.5% Silver Conductors Semi-Solid Conductors greatly reduce strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter. Solid silver-plated conductors are excellent for very high-frequency applications, like USB audio and video. These signals, being such a high frequency, travel almost exclusively on the surface of the conductor. As the surface is made of high-purity silver, the performance is very close to that of a 100% silver cable, but priced much closer to solid copper cable. This is an incredibly cost effective way of manufacturing very high-quality USB cables. 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. All Conductors Controlled for RF Noise Directionality Specifications Metal (USB A-B): Silver-Plated Solid Copper - 0.5% Silver Metal (All Others): Silver-Plated Semi-Solid Concentric - 0.5% Silver Dielectric: Hard-Cell Foam (HCF) Noise-Dissipation: Metal-Layer Jacket: Black PVC with Green Stripes AudioQuest Limited Lifetime Warranty