How Is This Possible? Must be Counterfeits

@marcfrenette

I have worked in mainland China and across the globe for decades in the manufacturing supply chains. China is full of great people, hundreds that I have known. The vast majority are great people with similar hopes and dreams… with about 700 million trying to get from lower class near poverty to the middle class.

The government of China does not recognize international patent laws and some people take advantage of this. Yes, this is bad, they should and as they develop their own proprietary technology they will eventually want to protect it and get on board. The US is full of people that do much worse than this. It is unfair to generalize from the actions of a few to all.

I read about the fakes and since I had a pair of Nordost Odin 2 interconnects for a while I bought a pair of fakes from AliExpress. No, they do not sound like the real thing or are they constructed of the same materials. I’ll throw them out at some point versus let some one try to pass them off as real.

I read about the fakes and since I had a pair of Nordost Odin 2 interconnects for a while I bought a pair of fakes from AliExpress. No, they do not sound like the real thing or are they constructed of the same materials.

How did you determine this? Did you actually cut into your expensive original Nordost and the fake one, lay them out side by side to see what the layup is, etc? 😑

How different did they sound sonically? any specifics you can elaborate on?  

I looked at them, they are not nearly the same external quality. Also, a number of people have cut them open… scraping the silver coating off the copper wire. They sound nothing like the refined Odin 2… vailed, less dynamic, less detailed not close to the same league. There is actually more than one imitator making these things. A number of different brands.

it is hard to imagine buying a $40,000 pair of cables for $100 and thinking it's the real thing........................................yes, but do they sound $39,900 TIMES better.

It is not far less preposterous to think that buying a 50,000 bucks gear upgrade for a living room will be 30,000 times better than a 20,000 system in a dedicated acoustic room ...

And this proposal is the general intuition among many audiophiles..

Acoustics rules audio not price tags ...

it is hard to imagine buying a $40,000 pair of cables for $100 and thinking it’s the real thing........................................yes, but do they sound $39,900 TIMES better.