Audioquest WEL innerconnects are the older models the same as current model?

Good point @mulveling I have had the old XLR connectors detach a connection on me especially if you twist them (which of course you never should do). Easy enough to open them up and tighten them down but never had a problem with the new termination

if anyone needs to validate braid colors over the years I believe all of the old AQ price books are available on line so you can check what they should look like each year (I at least have kept them all)

Fyi.... all AQ cables are manufactured in China! 

That’s correct. All the fake ones.

Geoffkait.... fake, expensive, top-of-line models, etc... comes from the same ovens! No such things as made in USA from Audioquest.   They will tell u that their cables are made at the Irvine factory; but that is just b.sing with consumers! 

Doesn’t look like Guangzhou to me 🤨
https://www.stereophile.com/content/video-tour-audioquest