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I've always like AQ cables, but was slightly worried when I bought some from a fellow audiophile in China. I took them to a friend who works a nearby high end audio store, compared them to new ones, and they passed the authenticity test. I come out of this an absolute winner in every way having saved enough money to put several otherwise impoverished students through medical school thereby helping make a better life for all the little children in the world.

Kijanki,
It was mentioned that DHGate isn't a distributor but just provider of market for multiple sellers. You never know if they're authorized to sell AQ or any kind of cables, but the bottom line is THEY ARE A LOT CHEAPER and look and sound like real. Who cares if consumer is HAPPY?

Marakanetz, Perhaps AQ cares if design is stolen. I'm not sure what provider means. I don't believe AQ sells original cables with 95% discount. It is like with bootleg DVDs, I wouldn't buy it but many people do.

You want good IC's that will blow away AQ? Try Silnote.
Outstanding. I'm not affilliated at all.

Well the "mystery" is solved. I today received my "K2" speaker cables - paid $ 371 for them delivered via DHL. They came in a nice box and looked to be "real"

I decided to take them apart to see what the scoup was and this is what I found.

The cables have the "correct" color cable jacket on them Black and Silver, the aluminum bezels are silkscreened "K2"

The internal wires are silver clad copper - so here is a mismatch as the K2 is supposed to be solid silver, these are not.

I removed the bezel at the end of the wire where it split into two and cut away the heat shrink and pulled back the cable jacket - below is a wire thats labeled "Audioquest Rockefeller 3 Speaker wire" So it appears that the folks at DH gate are selling entry level Rockefeller wire relabeled as top if the line K2.

A 8 foot pair of Rockefeller have a retail price of $962 as mentioned I paid $ 371 for them - about the same as I would have paid for them if I had sourced them here in the US

So there really is no free lunch - If a deal is to good to be true it usually is :-)

As Always Good Listening

Peter