Blue Dragon and Moon


I'd like to start a discussion about Blue Dragon cables and Moon Audio. Please tell me your experiences and I'll tell you mine

Thanks, Paul
paul9000t
Paul, my experiences with Moon Audio are some what limited but here goes. Purchased their Black Dragon and their Silver Dragon HP cables for multiple pairs of Audeze HP and bought a set of Norne adapters to use with multiple pairs of Hifiman HPs, that was 5 years ago and have sold off all other cables because these are just the best I have found, now bare in mind I did not try any stupid expensive cables but did sample a lot in the Dragons price range + or - $100.00. The Silver Dragon have been my go to for Audeze LCD2F, LCD3s and my Hifiman HE560s and my HE1000V2s, while my Hifiman Edition XV2s favor the Black Dragon. Two years ago I bought the Dennise Had Dragon/Inspire headphone amp from them and it has been wonderful. A week ago I emailed them for a RA# to send the amp back in to be checked out as I was chasing a system ghost that kept going back to the Inspire, they emailed me within a few hours, told me to roll the tubes and if that didn't solve the issue that there wasn't much else that could go wrong under the hold, I assured them that had been done more than once. We had several email conversations as they were very diligently trying to help me with my out of warranty amp, leaving me very impressed. Now with all that said my system ghost I was chasing has proven to be the Silver Dragon cables are the issue, will be sending them back for possible repair but do plan to buy another set of them wired for the Hifiman phones so I won't need to use the Norne adapters. Have no experience with the Blue Dragon cables. Enjoy the music
Moon Audio has been around a long time, known primarily for its custom aftermarket headphone cables. In my experience it’s a well run company. I have tried two of their headphone cables - their top of the line Black Dragon cable for Sennheiser HD800 headphones. It sort of mellowed out the HD800s too much for my taste, and I ended up preferring and buying the Cardas Clear cable from another vendor instead. No problems returning the Black Dragon, though unlike some cable manufacturers that offer a free trial period, Moon Audio does charge a 10% restocking fee. I also bought a Black Dragon cable for my JH Audio Roxanne custom IEMs. I can’t compare it to other cables because Moon Audio is the only company with access to JH Audio’s proprietary IEM cable connectors.  The Black Dragon is better than the stock cable, but it’s not a night/day difference. I don’t have any experience with their Blue Dragon cables or with their interconnects and digital cables. 
OP, ok now it's your turn


Methinks the OP tricked you into showing yours … 
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I know this is an older thread but I feel compelled to share my thoughts about the Blue Dragon PCs.  I bought a pair of them earlier this year.  I gave them ~45 days or so of run in and they just never seemed to float my boat.  I tried one on my DAC (PS Audio DS DAC at the time and Codex recently) and my Zidoo UHD3000 video/multi-channel music streamer.  I even tried one for nearly a month on my Ayre KX-5 Twenty preamp.  AT this time I did preamp and DAC and used another cable on the Zidoo.  It just felt like something was 'off'.  But being as this was over a period of about a month and a half, you kind of lose perspective (and time, apparently).  Until you make a change.  And I simply rotated in my existing cables which are Audio Sensibility Testament SEs.  These are similarly priced PCs and also similar in construction (high purity OCC copper).  When I turned everything back on with my AS cables inserted, I immediately said, wow!  That's it.  That's what was missing.  The Blue Dragons are very dull, bloated and rolled off sounding.  And the soundstage is more closed-in as a result.  No clue why there is such a noticeable difference between these two cables.

Moon Audio are also very strict about their return policy.  Hell, I never even asked for my money back.  I offered to 'upgrade' to the Black Dragon if they would allow me to trade in my pair of Blue Dragons.  It was a hard no despite my cables being perfect with all packaging.  A policy is a policy, I guess.  But it's not how I've run my business for 30+ years, so I don't fully understand the mentality.  They could have kept me as a customer.

Anyway, I can't recommend this company's power cables.  You can do far better for right around the same price.  In fact, I have cables that are less expensive which don't ruin the sound like these did (AQ NRG-2s were $100/ea).  I just wanted to try something new.  Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose...  Live and learn.