Cheap Interconnects from Hong Kong

Some are, some are not. I bought some PS Audio power cords from HK and if they are fakes they are very good ones as the appear completely identical to the ones I have bought here. I bought some alleged Siltech speaker cable also, I think it is genuine, it appears to be cable bought in bulk and terminated there but it could be counterfeit. I have also seen slightly misspelled versions of famous wire products that I have no doubt were fake. There are HK companies like Sweetcome who produce cables under their own name who have good products. I purchased replacement umbilical cables and power cord for my Musical Fidelity M3 from them and am very happy with results. The PS Audio is made in China anyway and these were the previous generation so I suppose they may have been disposing of them over there to keep from depressing US market. I purchased some here from dealers disposing of their old stock.

I bought a Monster HDMI cable (top of the line) on eBay and I believe it was fake as I took the whole package to a Best Buy store and compared the eBay one with the one sold in Best Buy side by side. The fake one lacked some logos and description. The cable did look like the genuine one. The seller was in U.S. and I returned it for full refund. I guess there are more abuses in eBay.

I bought some speaker jumpers from a ebay seller in HK. They were homemade, not name brand so they can't be counterfeit, but I thought the quality was pretty good.

Mark

Since it sounds like they are made in China,the factory may run a quantity of the assembly line for themselves. Audioquest might not even no they do it.Or they could be pure counterfeit. Being that its a most likely an easy to copy product,who knows. I sure wouldn't want to get cheated on pure counterfeits.[http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue18/audioquestinterview.htm]

It's interesting to note that there are over 50 King Cobra interconnects for sale, but less than 10 Columbias (which would be much more difficult to fake, due to the DBS attachment).

I guess that pretty much sums it up.