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Stealth cables

What is with all of these Stealth cables for sale here at AG? I ended up buying a pair of the ($2,000.00) PGS cables for obviously the lower going rate here. But I was not impressed with them. I tried them in various locations on my system but the results were always the same.
They actually sounded a little brittle in the highs. I ended up selling them because I just couldn't see using them. Are they really $2000.00 retail cables or is this some marketing scheme ?
scottht
s23chang
620 posts
 
I'm not sure there is such thing as counterfit Stealth PGS.
My local hifi shop won't take anything unless is name brand like MIT, transparent, Audioquest, NBS, Audio Note, Synergistic research, XLO... etc. Not many people know about Stealth because it is a small shop. It is hard for the hifi shop to make money with this type of used cable.
tbg
5,263 posts
 
I think the counterfeit Stealth Cables comment merely meant that he felt he could not sell them.
sherod
1,690 posts
 
I agree with Tbg. More than likely The Cable Co. didn't want to touch them. They do tend to stick with internationally known and advertised brands. I once contacted The Cable Co. and asked them what they thought of Sonoran Plateau cables and he had never heard of Sonoran.Makes me wonder if the Cable Co. guys ever read these threads.
darrylhifi
498 posts
 
You could be right, but I dont believe so. He did sound sincere. Also when I mentioned Z-Squared he immediately said he never heard of them. Not limiting this conversation to Stealth, I wonder if their are counterfeit cables out there. It seems to me a very enterprising thief could duplicate the look of the higher end brands rather easily.
s23chang
620 posts
 
One of the reason turns the re-seller off is if the manufacture itself also sells the used cable over the internet. The profit is minimum and therefore it is not worth for re-seller to compete against the manufacture.
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