Chinese fake cables How fake, how good?

I don't own any counterfeit gear.& don't agree that anyone should support counterfeit goods that are trying to be passed off as the real thing.

However, I also don't have any issue with someone reverse engineering a cable and offering their version of it as long as they aren't treading on anyone's patent, logo, etc. I wouldn't hesitate to purchase a quality copy of a once well regarded item as long as it wasn't counterfeited and sold as legitimate. Nothing illegal or unethical in that.

At the same time I don't believe for a minute the argument that someone purchasing a $200 Odin copy on Aliexpress is somehow taking away a legitimate sale of a real Nordost Odin cable. Anyone looking to hook up their $100k speakers to their DarTzeel amps isn't going to balk at another $25k in cabling and would most likely not even consider it. I don't see anything on Aliexpress these days that says to me I can't tell the difference by just comparing the two visually. Many of the copies on offer there are of earlier technology as well or, more often, permutations of that technology & no longer being offered for sale by the original manufacturer. You aren't really fooled by that little piece of wood that says Odin on that IC are you? 

And how about all the dubious gear & claims that the Belts & other shamans have been peddling for ages? Expensive little stick on dots or $4k record clamps made from some dark exotic wood anyone?
I'll bet the OP is correct in that many of those cables probably do sound very good. They can be sold inexpensively because they don't have that same infrastructure, dealer and advertising budget to support. Just don't try to pass it off as the real thing and don't steal IP.

BTW I don't support the out the back door overrun idea either (as much as I'd like to have a full loom of some expensive cabling at 10% of retail).

China has been infiltrating just about every single industry and manufacturing sector out there, including audio.  Rather than get their brilliant people to R&D products that they refine over the course of decades, they steal technologies, designs, inventions and methods.  

It's disgusting.  Every company that has a factory in China is getting ripped off.  Then they flood a marketplace with cheaper alternatives to put the legitimate manufacturers out of business.  They've done this already with clothing, electronics and medications, for instance.  

And this OP wants to ignore all that, and say, yeah, maybe it's stealing, but hey, this one fake cable sounds better than the other one.  You can go get bent, fella.

The thing is this is not high end electronic stuffs. That might be hard to make a good copy.
This is only a cable. How hard will it be to locate the source material? I don’t think any of these high end brand make their own copper. Audioquest buys copper from Cardas to make their speaker cables. Its easy to find a place in China that sell good cooper, plated goods....etc. So basically making a highend speaker cables, interconnect, digital coaxial is extremely easy. These China factory can absolutely make good stunning cables which is same quality as the Nordost, Audience...etc. By using the top notch material inside. They just need to wrap with the nice package outside. Then it will look exactly like the real thing. And they do sound extremely good. You can’t tell the difference at all. So why bother spending $10 grants on a highend speaker cable instead of $300.

I love my new Egg Roll cables.