Datasheet

RETAIL PRICE BOOK • JANUARY 1, 2014
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High-frequency engineers often believe that “low-
frequency” audio is just so simple … but in fact,
it is very dicult to handle a multi-octave audio
signal without damaging the time relationships
that dene individual sounds.
Even when multi-channel audio is packaged as
a single-channel digital stream, as in HDMI, USB,
FireWire, Coax, AES/EBU, Toslink, etc., time-based
data corruption, known as “jitter,” causes unxable
damage to the information package.
In addition to insulating, “insulation” is also a
“dielectric.” This means that it interacts with any
nearby electrical signal, slowing down the signal.
Absolute speed is not itself relevant, but when
insulation is un-biased, it slows down dierent
frequencies and dierent amplitudes by varying
degrees, a signicant distortion mechanism.
AudioQuest’s DBS creates a strong and stable
electrostatic eld, which saturates and polarizes
(organizes) the molecules of the insulation. This
minimizes both energy storage in the dielectric,
and the multiple nonlinear time-delays. Sound
appears from a surprisingly blacker background
with unexpected detail and dynamic contrast.
Because DBS creates a eld, but does no “work,” the
DBS pack’s batteries will last for years. A test button
and LED allow for the occasional battery check.
Dielectric-Bias System (DBS, US Patent numbers 7,126,055 & 7,872,195 B1)