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Interesting tread - just checked the Audioquest retail price book, a pair of K2 Speaker cables @ 8 feet long have a MSRP of US$14050 as of November 2011.

If what is ordered from Hong Kong is the real deal then $380 certainly is a bargain :-) This however is probably one of those "to good to be true deals" - Just to satisfy my own curiosity I ordered up a pair just to see how they are made - should be interesting.

Good listening

Peter

I use the U.S. made Clear Day speaker cables. Why would I want to go backwards by using the K2's?Plus the silver used in the Clear Day come from the Silver State!

Jp, Pb... I guess they're all made there especially tubing and terminating equipment that is being used by vast majority of US manufacturers. Buy one for yourself and you're good to manufacture any wire you wish to make. Fake will look and sound SAME and that's the bottom line as long as you know what they're made of weather it's legal, not legal to manufacture or purchase, fair, not fair they're competitors now and there are reasons, facts and 'COZes' I've described above.
It's just wires and our beloved US manufacturers may deeply go down on prices of their 'gimmemomani' branded products.

Pbnaudio, your place as manufacturer puts you in the unique position of seeing and knowing things others don't.

I'm not here to say that the AQ cables you mentioned at heavy discount from HK are authentic, but nor would I believe they're counterfeit, either.

We know of far too many examples of entities who have sited manufacture in China, only to discover the handle on production control they believed in proved wishful thinking. Time and again, folks with access to product/production figured out they can do well selling through means other than the expected outlet. Though some of this is obviously unethical, if not criminal, before casting criticism on those over there, how many of these Western entities employed the requisite business protections to safeguard themselves? I can say from personal experience, in the high-end audio business, many a company has failed to make even the most basic of moves.

Obviously, in these instances, folks can source the same product intended for sale at much higher pricing at steep discount.

Im not sorry DUDE!!