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AudioQuest Carbon USB Type A to Lightning Cable
As low as £209.00 £174.17
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AQ Carbon USB-Lightning
Lifetime
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24 hours
AQ’s take-no-prisoners Lightning connector uses an ABS shell, over a solid one-piece die-cast shield, over the properly stress-free internal connections.
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AudioQuest Carbon USB Type A to Lightning Cable
No matter how you choose to connect with your music and media, AudioQuest provides a high-quality cable specifically designed for the job. Our complete line of USB cables includes four models now available with Apple’s®Lightning™ connector (as used on all recent iOS devices). Whether you’re connecting mobile devices to the USB ports common to so many car audio systems or streaming content to a home entertainment system, a high-quality, low-distortion cable is required for sound that is full-bodied, engaging, and three-dimensional. Thin and flat is a great look for an iPhone or iPad®, but it’s not how the music from those marvelous devices should sound!
Features :
- Solid 5% Silver Conductors
- Hard-Cell Foam Insulation
- Carbon-Based 3-Layer Noise Dissipation System (NDS)
- Silver-Plated Terminations
Solid 5% Silver Conductors :
Solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter. Solid silver-plated conductors are excellent for very high-frequency applications, like USB audio. 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 solid 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 insulation is used exclusively in most of AudioQuest’s video and digital audio cables. Similar to Foamed-PE, it is nitrogen injected to create air pockets. ‘Hard’ foam is used because the stiffness of the material allows the conductors in the cable to maintain the same relationship with each other along the full length of the cable, thus ensuring that the characteristic impedance of the cable is consistent.
Carbon-Based 3-Layer Noise Dissipation System (NDS) :
100% shield coverage is easy. Preventing captured RF Interference from modulating the equipment’s ground reference requires AQ’s Noise-Dissipation System. Metal and Carbon-Loaded synthetics prevent most RFI from reaching the equipment’s ground plane.
Silver-Plated Terminations :
Precision gold-plated plugs are carefully attached with the very best solder. Through choice of flux and metallurgy, AQ solder has been optimized to make a low-distortion connection. The difference you hear between solders is a result of connection quality. AQ solder does not have a high silver content because the more silver there is in solder, the more difficult it is to make a good connection.
Specification :
- Metal: Solid 5% Silver-Plated conductors
- Dielectric: Hard-Cell Foam Insulation
- Carbon-Based 3-Layer Noise-Dissipation System (NDS)
- Signal Conductors Controlled for Digital-Audio Directionality
- Jacket Colour: Black/White stripe PVC
About AudioQuest
AudioQuest has been the largest cable supplier to the high-end specialist market for many years. AudioQuest is sold in several hundred outlets in the US and in over sixty countries. Bill Lowe (Founder) is especially pleased that this success has been possible despite his insistence that the foundation of the company, and the foundation of AudioQuest marketing, must be the performance of the product. In the audio world, many professionals have learned that it is not always convenient to listen to the products they sell … they might learn something they don’t want to know! Bill has always understood the challenge of basing the existence of AudioQuest on the performance of the product. However, to Bill, this is the only reasonable way to do business and the only acceptable way to combine his passion for music (and all things high performance), with his need to make a living.
Specification :
- Metal: Solid 5% Silver-Plated conductors
- Dielectric: Hard-Cell Foam Insulation
- Carbon-Based 3-Layer Noise-Dissipation System (NDS)
- Signal Conductors Controlled for Digital-Audio Directionality
- Jacket Colour: Black/White stripe PVC
UK Delivery
1. We use Royal Mail 1st Class Services as a Standard Postage Option
Orders received before 4.30pm Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays) are usually dispatched the same day by FIRST CLASS post (unless premium postal or timed courier services are selected), subject to stock availability. Over 98% of our orders are usually delivered the next working day including Saturdays.
Standard delivery is usually within 2-3 working days, although 98% of all orders are delivered the next working day including Saturdays . In extreme cases, such as delivery to the Highlands and Islands, this may take 3 days.
All items are fully insured and come with an invoice from Futureshop.co.uk. We use the Royal Mail for delivery of small packages and DPD or Interlink Express for items that weigh over 2KG. Items over 2KG are fully insured and will usually be delivered within 48 hours of placing your order Monday to Friday subject to stock availability. For International orders, we use FedEx Services where customers have selected this option.
Please note, special orders for non-standard cable lengths or custom-made cables may be subject to longer delivery time-scales. This may vary from manufacturer to manufacturer.
We offer 'Free UK delivery on orders over £99' subject to the following terms & conditions:
- Applies only to orders with £99 or more of items (including VAT at the UK rate), at FutureShop.co.uk
- Free Delivery on orders over £99 utilises Royal Mail First Class postal service for items weighing under 2KG. For items weighing over 2KG, we use DPD next working day services which deliver from 9.00am to 6pm within mainland UK (excludes Royal Mail Special Delivery Services and timed next day delivery services by UK Mail).
- Applies only to deliveries to addresses within mainland UK and Northern Ireland addresses. Applies only to orders that are to be delivered to a single Mainland UK delivery address.
- You will not be eligible for free delivery on your order if any items are cancelled or returned for a refund, bringing the total order amount below £99. Where items are returned, the refund due will be the cost of the item less any postage costs.
- We reserve the right to change or discontinue 'Free delivery on orders over £99 promotion at any time.
- FREE DELIVERY FOR ORDERS OVER £99 OFFER DOES NOT APPLY TO TRADE CUSTOMERS.
Free Delivery on orders over £99 utilises Royal Mail First Class postal service for items weighing under 2KG. For items weighing over 2KG, we use DPD or Interlink Express next working day services which deliver from 9.00am to 6pm within mainland UK.
Free Delivery for orders over £99 excludes Royal Mail Special Delivery Services and timed next day delivery services by DPD or Interlink Express.
2. Special Delivery UK - Guaranteed Next Working Day
We have 99.9% of the UK covered With Royal Mail Next Day Special Delivery. We guarantee delivery to most UK addresses by 1pm the next working day. This includes Northern Ireland, Jersey and Guernsey. Some places take longer to deliver to but we still guarantee delivery within three working days by 5.30 PM.
For the Next Day Special Delivery service, orders must be received by futureshop.co.uk by 4.30pm weekdays. Orders after the 4.30pm deadline cannot be guaranteed for same day dispatch.
Please note, Royal Mail Special Delivery for next working day may not be possible where non-standard cable lengths are ordered. If this is the case, the item will be shipped via The Royal Mail Special Delivery service as soon as the cable is custom made.
For orders weighing over 2KG, we reserve the right to ship items using Next Day Pre-Noon Courier Services where Royal Mail Special Delivery option has been selected.
3. Channel Islands & Northern Ireland
We accept orders from all Channel Islands including Alderney, Jersey, Guernsey and Sark. Unless you select a premium service, Items weighing under 2KG are delivered using our standard UK delivery option above. For items weighing over 2KG, a surcharge may be applied for all deliveries to the Channel Islands as well as Northern Ireland.
European Countries
Deliveries to EU member states are subject to 20% VAT. We offer the following shipping services:
- Royal Mail First Class International Untracked Airmail Services - Items are usually delivered within 10 working days.
- Royal Mail First Class International Tracked Airmail Services - Items are usually delivered within 3 to 7 working days.
- DHL Express International - Items are usually delivered within 24 to 48 hours. DHL orders must be received by 3:30pm for next day service to most destinations in Europe
- Federal Express International Priority - Items are usually delivered within 24 to 48 hours. FedEx orders must be received by 3.00pm for next day service to most destinations in Europe
- Federal Express International Economy - Item are usually delivered within 48 to 72 hours
Worldwide - Excluding UK & Europe
Deliveries outside of the EU are not subject to 20% VAT and so the 20% tax on items is automatically deducted when you login or register.
We offer the following shipping services:
- Royal Mail First Class International Untracked Airmail Services - Items are usually delivered within 15 working days.
- Royal Mail First Class International Tracked Airmail - Items are usually delivered within 10-15 working days.
- DHL Express International - Items are usually delivered within 48 hours. DHL orders must be received by 3:30pm in order to ship items the same day, subject to stock availability.
- Federal Express International Priority - Items are usually delivered within 48 hours. FedEx orders must be received by 3.00pm in order to ship items the same day, subject to stock availability.
Where the actual weight of the package significantly exceeds the shipping cost charged on orders, we may write to you for an additional shipping charge. For larger orders, items may be shipped in multiple packets.
Customer Reviews
5 /5.0 of 3 Reviews
A significant musical upgrade
Andrew S Johnson
23 Jan 2023
Verified Buyer
I have realised that, for a review to be useful to a person looking for guidance on upgrading to a particular cable, you need to understand why we need to do it if we are already happy with the one we have.
The reason (given that I can only relate what I hear, given my age and the reduced frequency range of my ears now) is simple: music. I was (still am) very happy with the sound of the Cinnamon version of this cable which I use to transfer BBC Sounds (320kbps) and streamed (lossless) albums off Prestoclassical through my receiver’s front USB port (including the AQ FM Jitterbug). I wanted to hear if the Carbon could offer even more of the open and musical sound I had come to appreciate.
Reader, I was not disappointed! After a suitable burn-in period of over 100 hours (this isn’t offered for this type of cable, pity, but presumably for technical reasons), I can say that the improvement is well worth the 2x the cost of the Cinnamons. All I can suggest is to try it, give it time and trust your ears. You have 60 days and plenty of time to decide if it’s worth it for you. If not, you lose nothing; if so, you’ll not regret it.
Excellent service and guidance from Futureshop, by the way. Many thanks.
The reason (given that I can only relate what I hear, given my age and the reduced frequency range of my ears now) is simple: music. I was (still am) very happy with the sound of the Cinnamon version of this cable which I use to transfer BBC Sounds (320kbps) and streamed (lossless) albums off Prestoclassical through my receiver’s front USB port (including the AQ FM Jitterbug). I wanted to hear if the Carbon could offer even more of the open and musical sound I had come to appreciate.
Reader, I was not disappointed! After a suitable burn-in period of over 100 hours (this isn’t offered for this type of cable, pity, but presumably for technical reasons), I can say that the improvement is well worth the 2x the cost of the Cinnamons. All I can suggest is to try it, give it time and trust your ears. You have 60 days and plenty of time to decide if it’s worth it for you. If not, you lose nothing; if so, you’ll not regret it.
Excellent service and guidance from Futureshop, by the way. Many thanks.
Why Bother going anywhere else?
Mark Hailwood
13 Dec 2021
Verified Buyer
Another purchase from Future Shop, and another delivery within three days. Excellent service and product, as usual, no complaints whatsoever.
I wouldn't consider going anywhere else, to be honest, for my cables.
I wouldn't consider going anywhere else, to be honest, for my cables.
Excellent Digital Cable
Richard1st
23 Feb 2018
Verified Buyer
I was a little unsure about spending this amount of money on a lightning to USB cable. The only reviews of the product that I could find were of the "Bits is Bits" and "It Does What it Says on the Tin" variety which are not helpful. If you have good kit and good quality music files the difference between the Carbon and a stock lightning cable are immediately obvious.
The Carbon has a solid extended but not overblown bass, the middle and top end are detailed and reveal fine texture in the music but without being bright, harsh or tiring (although if your system is bright or harsh the Carbon will reveal it). The Carbon is a very listenable cable and a worthwhile purchase.
The Carbon has a solid extended but not overblown bass, the middle and top end are detailed and reveal fine texture in the music but without being bright, harsh or tiring (although if your system is bright or harsh the Carbon will reveal it). The Carbon is a very listenable cable and a worthwhile purchase.