NORDOST RED DAWN USB C CABLE

The Nordost Red Dawn USB-C Cable is a high-performance, audiophile-grade USB cable designed to deliver the most accurate, high-speed data transfer between USB-C enabled devices and USB audio components. As part of Nordost’s renowned Leif series, the Red Dawn USB-C Cable is engineered with advanced materials and Nordost’s proprietary technologies to ensure superior signal integrity, speed, and clarity. It is an ideal choice for audiophiles and music enthusiasts who want to optimize the performance of their computer-based or USB-C connected audio systems, achieving a high-fidelity listening experience that stands out from standard USB cables.

Overview

The Red Dawn USB-C Cable is meticulously designed to handle the rigorous demands of high-resolution audio files, ensuring stable, interference-free, and high-speed data transfer. By using silver-plated conductors, precision-engineered insulation, and efficient shielding, Nordost ensures that the cable maintains the integrity of digital signals, resulting in more dynamic, detailed, and natural sound reproduction. This cable offers a significant upgrade over regular USB cables, making it an essential addition to any high-quality digital audio system that relies on USB-C connectivity.

Key Features

• Silver-Plated, Solid-Core Conductors: The Red Dawn USB-C Cable is constructed with solid-core, silver-plated oxygen-free copper (OFC) conductors. This combination ensures superior conductivity, minimizing signal loss and distortion, and providing a clean and precise transfer of digital audio signals. The silver plating enhances high-frequency performance, resulting in a clearer and more refined sound.
• Low-Loss FEP (Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene) Insulation: Nordost employs extruded FEP insulation, which offers excellent dielectric properties, minimizing signal loss and maintaining the purity of digital signals. This insulation ensures accurate data transfer and reduces jitter, delivering a more accurate and detailed audio experience.
• Precision Twisted Pair Design: The Red Dawn USB-C Cable features a precision-twisted pair construction, which maintains consistent impedance and minimizes crosstalk between conductors. This design reduces data errors and interference, ensuring a clean and stable signal transfer from your USB-C device to your audio system.
• Advanced Shielding: The cable is equipped with advanced shielding to protect against electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI). This shielding ensures that external noise is kept at bay, preserving the clarity and integrity of the digital signal.
• High-Quality USB-C Connectors: The Red Dawn USB-C Cable is terminated with durable, gold-plated USB-C connectors, ensuring a secure and corrosion-resistant connection. These connectors maintain optimal signal integrity and provide reliable data transfer between your USB-C enabled device and audio components.

Benefits of the Nordost Red Dawn USB-C Cable

• Exceptional Sound Quality: The combination of silver-plated conductors, precision-twisted pair design, and advanced shielding ensures that the Red Dawn USB-C Cable delivers a highly detailed, clear, and dynamic sound, allowing you to experience your digital music with greater fidelity and realism.
• Reduced Jitter and Data Loss: The cable’s low-loss insulation, advanced shielding, and precise engineering minimize jitter, noise, and data errors, ensuring that your digital audio signal is transmitted accurately and without interference.
• Versatile Compatibility: The Red Dawn USB-C Cable is compatible with a wide range of USB-C enabled audio devices, making it an ideal solution for connecting modern digital sources, such as laptops, smartphones, tablets, or digital music players, to USB-enabled DACs, amplifiers, or other audio components.

Ideal Use Cases

• Computer-Based Audio Systems: The Red Dawn USB-C Cable is perfect for audiophiles who want to improve the sound quality of their computer-based audio system, ensuring a more accurate and detailed transfer of digital audio signals to their DAC or amplifier.
• High-Resolution Audio Streaming: For those who stream high-resolution audio files from a USB-C enabled device, the Red Dawn USB-C Cable provides a noticeable improvement in sound quality, delivering clearer, more detailed, and dynamic playback.
• Connecting Modern Digital Audio Devices: This cable is ideal for connecting USB-C devices such as laptops, tablets, smartphones, or digital music players to USB-enabled DACs, amplifiers, or other high-fidelity audio components.

How to Integrate the Red Dawn USB-C Cable into Your System

1. Connect one end of the cable: Insert the USB-C connector into the USB-C output port of your digital audio source (e.g., laptop, smartphone, tablet, or music player).
2. Connect the other end to your DAC or amplifier: Insert the appropriate USB connector (USB-A, USB-B, or another USB-C depending on the model) into the USB input port of your DAC, amplifier, or other audio component.
3. Ensure secure connections: Make sure both ends of the cable are firmly connected to maintain optimal signal transfer and audio performance.
4. Enjoy enhanced sound quality: Start playing your favorite high-resolution audio files or streaming music, and experience the improved sound quality delivered by the Red Dawn USB-C Cable.

Who Should Consider the Nordost Red Dawn USB-C Cable?

The Red Dawn USB-C Cable is ideal for:

• Audiophiles who want to experience the highest level of sound quality from their USB-C connected audio systems.
• Music enthusiasts looking to upgrade from standard USB-C cables to achieve better clarity, detail, and dynamic range in their audio playback.
• Anyone with a high-resolution audio streaming setup who wants to ensure accurate and interference-free signal transfer from their USB-C device to their audio components.

Comparison with Other Nordost USB Cables

• Red Dawn vs. Blue Heaven USB Cable: The Red Dawn USB-C Cable offers superior performance compared to the Blue Heaven USB Cable, thanks to its advanced insulation, higher-quality conductors, and refined construction. This results in greater clarity, detail, and overall sound quality, making the Red Dawn the better option for those who demand the highest level of audio fidelity.
• Red Dawn vs. Heimdall 2 USB Cable: While the Heimdall 2 USB Cable is a step up from the Red Dawn in terms of performance, featuring Nordost’s Micro Mono-Filament technology and even more advanced construction, the Red Dawn offers an excellent balance of quality and value, making it a great choice for those who want high-quality audio without the higher price tag.

Technical Specifications

• Conductors: Silver-plated, solid-core oxygen-free copper (OFC)
• Insulation: Extruded FEP (Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene)
• Cable Geometry: Precision-twisted pair design
• Shielding: Advanced shielding to protect against EMI and RFI
• Connectors: Gold-plated USB-C connectors (available with various configurations such as USB-C to USB-A, USB-C to USB-B, or USB-C to USB-C)
• Lengths: Available in various lengths to suit different setup requirements

The Nordost Red Dawn USB-C Cable is an exceptional choice for audiophiles and music enthusiasts seeking to elevate the sound quality of their computer-based or USB-C connected audio systems. By incorporating advanced materials, precision engineering, and Nordost’s proprietary technologies, the Red Dawn USB-C Cable ensures that your digital audio signals are transmitted with outstanding clarity, accuracy, and speed.

Whether you’re streaming high-resolution audio files from your laptop, playing digital music from your smartphone, or connecting a modern digital music player to your DAC, the Red Dawn USB-C Cable offers a significant upgrade over standard USB cables. Its combination of superior sound quality, versatile compatibility, and durable construction makes it a valuable addition to any digital audio setup, ensuring that you experience your music with the highest fidelity and enjoyment.

The Red Dawn USB Cable is the first of Nordost’s USB options to offer USB C plug compatibility. This Cable uses silver-plated 99.9999%, OFC signal conductors, optimally designed for digital signal transfer. Each conductor is precision wound to correspond accurately with USB’s unique, hybrid twisted pair/non twisted pair geometry. The new Red Dawn cable also utilizes Nordost’s proprietary FEP Micro Mono-Filament technology, which allows it to transcend the speed and precision necessary for higher bandwidth and high speed, digital signal transmission. The conductors are then shielded with a dual layer of braid and foil shielding, in order to eliminate EMI and RFI and surpass USB 2.0 standards. The Red Dawn USB ensures that all the necessary information will be delivered with the efficiency and diligence needed to maintain the correct impedance to dramatically lift your hifi system to a new level of performance.

• FEP insulation
• Micro Mono-Filament technology
• Silver-plated 99.9999% OFC stranded conductors
• Dual layer of braid and foil shielding
• Specially designed for USB C connectors
(standard is C to B)
▶ Add €40.00 retail for On-The-Go (OTG) Configuration
(OTG only available for Micro B 2.0 and Mini B 2.0)