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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!!

I'm starting to feel a little sorry.

Audioquest manufactures cables in China for a long time (10 years?). They moved production there, cut prices and changed names of the cables to stay competitive. Python IC, for instance, became King Cobra (half of the price).
I suspect that big portion of price is not actual cost of manufacturing but R&D. I don't know if this can explain such price difference but on the other hand DH Gate doesn't give any specifications. Are they high purity silver? what type of insulation? Is it foam Polyethylene and carbon loaded partially conductive Polyethylene for negative conductors? Even if all is perfect copy of original (including patented DBS system) I would ask if DH Gate has authorization from AQ. If not, it is pretty much like buying stolen bike - some people wouldn't do it but others pretend not to know it is stolen.