Wireworld Platinum Starlight 8 USB 2.0 Type AtoB, 0.6m.

Breakthrough sound quality made Platinum Starlight USB cables an industry benchmark for a decade. Platinum Starlight 8 continues that tradition with solid silver conductors, elegant carbon fiber plugs, exclusive Uni-Path geometry and ultra-quiet Composilex 3 insulation.

Wireworld Platinum Starlight 8 USB 2.0 A to B (P2AB)
The Platinum Starlight 8 USB audio cable is intended for the most discerning listeners and advanced audio systems, where its ability to reveal the natural timbre of acoustic instruments and voices is invaluable. The Platinum Starlight 8 employs the WireWorld's new, patent-pending 6-Conductor DNA Helix™, which uses six signal conductors – twice as many as other USB cables.

Wireworld USB audio cables utilize unique new designs that minimize jitter by providing sharper waveforms than the standard USB cable design. They provide the least jitter available at each price level, producing distinct improvements in tone quality, clarity, image focus, smoothness and dynamic range. All Wireworld USB cables feature proprietary DNA Helix® or Symmetricon® design geometry.

Wireworld's improved USB audio cables recently earned the TAS Golden Ear and Digital Audio Cable of the Year awards on the Platinum Starlight.

There is a fundamental difference between the transfer of computer data and digital audio signals. Computers are able to transfer digital data without loss, because the data moves in the robust form of blocks, which do not depend on specific timing between the sending and receiving devices. However, digital audio signals are continuous streams of data, which are quite fragile, since the digital processor must remain perfectly locked onto the timing of the signal to avoid data losses.

The Limitations of digital audio processors and cables create timing errors known as jitter, which remove portions of the audio signal and replace them with noise and distortion. Cables tend to round off the square waveforms of the signal, making them less clear to the processor, thus increasing jitter. This rounding effect varies greatly among cables and a truly superior digital audio cable can make great improvements in sound quality.