Silver Dragon Cable for AKG Headphones

This Silver Dragon V3 Headphone Cable is designed for single-entry headphones that use a 3-pin mini XLR connection. We create the connector using our own molds to ensure a perfect fit to your AKG, Beyerdynamic, or Pioneer headphones. The Silver Dragon Cable V3 will dramatically increase the amount of detail and clarity you’ll hear in your music. Silver conductors do a great job of naturally increasing the soundstage and tightening up the low-end frequencies in your music. It’s a great match for those looking for a more analytical sound or want to correct some tonal properties in a warmer headphone.

Our Silver Dragon cables feature 4 x 24.0 AWG Teflon-insulated stranded conductors using pure single crystallized UP-OCC silver with 7N purity 99.99998% for a clean and clear presentation that will allow your music to fully express itself. Get ready to fall in love with your audiophile headphones all over again!

Compatible with the AKG K712 Pro, K702, Q701, K271 MKii, K240 MKii, and other AKG Studio headphones; Beyerdynamic DT 1770 Pro and DT 1990 Pro; and Pioneer HDJ-2000MK2 Pro.

Quality You Can Trust

Most stock headphone cables are made of poor, ultra-thin conductors that work as a bottleneck for sound. Poor geometries, no shielding, rubber jackets, and a whole host of other issues in OEM cables can limit the performance of the headphone driver in terms of clarity and definition.

Dragon Cables are handcrafted from quality materials in Moon Audio's headquarters in Cary, North Carolina. All of our cables are created with ultra-pure, single-crystal silver and copper strands and engineered to provide the cleanest, most musical presentation. Our wire is void of impurities and crystalline boundaries, leaving nothing between you and your music.

Silver Dragon Sound Signature

The Silver Dragon is the original cable. Silver strands clarify instrument separation, increase soundstage, and find previously lost high and mid-frequency sounds. Transients appear more cohesive and the bass tighter for a more controlled sound. The detail and clarity of the Silver Dragon make it a perfect match for classical music and other genres with many nuanced instruments.

For more information on finding your signature sound, visit our Sound Signature Guide.

Silver Dragon and AKG Headphones

AKG Connectors

This cable uses a single-entry 3-pin mini XLR connector. It is a common connector, used in a dual configuration for Audeze and Meze Audio. This cable is compatible with a number of headphones from AKG, Beyerdynamic, and Pioneer:

AKG

• K712 Pro
• K702
• Q701
• K271 MKii
• K240 MKii
• other AKG Studio

Beyerdynamic

• DT 1770 PRO
• DT 1990 PRO

Pioneer

• HDJ-2000MK2 Pro

Note: The K812 utilizes a special Lemo connection, not the 3-pin XLR.

Single-Ended Connections

Most single-entry headphones use a single-ended connector. While cables with balanced headphone connections may use balanced or single-ended amplifier connectors, this is not true of single-ended connections. Combining a balanced amplifier connector with a single-ended headphone connection can short the circuit and damage the amplifier. This is why the amplifier connections for this cable are limited to single-ended options.

Beware of single-ended to balanced adapters on Amazon. For balanced single-entry headphones, like the Oppo PM-3, contact us for a custom cable.

Cable Design

The previous version used 4 x 99.998% Ultra Pure Silver 24AWG Teflon insulated stranded conductors. Thus we have stepped up the purity to the purist available by today's technology. We have improved the conductor properties over the previous Version 2 cable as these conductors are free from impurities and have virtually no crystal boundaries. The conductors have almost no distortion compared to ordinary silver conductors. Each conductor is made up of a special varying sized stranded geometry. The silver strandings are mixed with Kevlar standings to reinforce the conductor. Making it stronger overall and less prone to failure due to the harsh constant flexing that headphone cable experience.

Each conductor is encapsulated in a Teflon casing. The conductors are then surrounded by cotton and a thin layer of aluminum foil. It is then protected by a 100% coverage silver plated copper secondary shield and placed in a polyethylene jacket for further protection. For added flexibility we are no longer using a Techflex jacketing as we did with our previous versions.

A variety of connection options are available for your downstream connection. Such as the mini plug, RCA, XLR and a whole host of others. We custom build these in-house to your connection specification. The cable can be used in either a single-ended or balanced design. The wire is soldered to the connectors using high-quality Cardas silver solder.

Hack Your Headphones

Dragon Cables are an easy do-it-yourself upgrade to your favorite headphones with detachable cables. With a wide array of connection options, a plug-and-play cable is just a few clicks away.

We also offer custom headphone hacks for your hard-wired cans, like many Grado, Sennheiser or AKG headphones. For more information on custom headphone modifications, visit our Hack Your Headphones portal.

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