AudioQuest Coffee HDMI with Ethernet, Audio Return and 3D - 1M

Briefly used in previous setup (somewhere between 10 and 20 hours). Will come in original box. Same day shipping!!
Price: meant to type $349 but hit wrong keys. Audiogon won't let me "increase" the price unless I buy a new listing... so. $349 in final invoice. Thanks!

Coffee

In 1982 Sony gave us “Perfect sound forever,” along with the attitude
that, “it’s just digital, so all CD players sound the same.” That was
disproved and qualitative differences between players became accepted
truth. Next came separate transport and DAC combos, which brought with
it the attitude that “all S/PDIF digital audio cables sound the same…”
until that too became disproved. Now the frontier has moved once again.
Is digital audio really just ones and zeros? We don’t believe so, and
once you’ve had a chance to listen to Coffee USB, you won’t think so
either…

SOLID 10% 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.

FOAMED-POLYETHYLENE INSULATION:
Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an
imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit board materials all
absorb energy (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then released as
distortion. Coffee USB uses air-filled Foamed-Polyethylene Insulation
because air absorbs next to no energy and Polyethylene is low-loss and
has a benign distortion profile. Thanks to all the air in Foamed-PE, it
causes much less of the out-of-focus effect common to other materials.

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.

DIELECTRIC-BIAS SYSTEM (DBS, US Pat #s 7,126,055 & 7,872,195 B1):
All insulation slows down the signal on the conductor inside. When
insulation is unbiased, it slows down parts of the signal differently, a
big problem for very time-sensitive multi-octave audio. AudioQuest’s
DBS creates a strong, stable electrostatic field which saturates and
polarizes (organizes) the molecules of the insulation. This minimizes
both energy storage in the insulation and the multiple nonlinear
time-delays that occur. Sound appears from a surprisingly black
background with unexpected detail and dynamic contrast. The DBS battery
packs will last for years. A test button and LED allow for the
occasional battery check.

TERMINATIONS: Precision direct-silver plated
pins 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.

UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS DEVICE CLASS DEFINITION FOR AUDIO DEVICES:
USB (Universal Serial BUS) was established by a stalwart group of
companies such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft (just to name a
few) in order to give the personal computing world a truly universal standard
and means to connect devices such as hard drives, printers, cameras,
and, more importantly to us, audio components. Included in the original
description are protocols for the pristine transfer of audio over USB.
Great care and sensitivity went into this. Consequently, a computer
connected to a USB-enabled digital-to-analog converter can outperform
the best compact disc players available today. AudioQuest is committed
to contributing products that honor USB’s ability to deliver
state-of-the-art performance on this new and wonderful frontier.

To learn more about the USB audio standard click here: http://www.audioquest.com/resource_tools/LearningMods/audio10.pdf