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In Reply to: RE: Fake Nordost Odin interconnects from China posted by KanedaK on December 29, 2019 at 00:01:35
People continuously ship me their wares, for me to treat on an audiodharma Cable Cooker. These include products known to be fakes. I've received several fake Kimber, Tara Labs, and XLO interconnects; Nordost and Shunyata powercords; and even AQ, Cardas, and Kimber speaker cables. With many of these, the cabling portion can look very close to a genuine sample. But often, the connectors give the fakes away.
Nevertheless, these knock-offs have all been functional, so, Cooked or not, they can be used. That said, I personally did not like the mediocre sonics of the fake Tara Labs Vector interconnects, and fake XLO Signature 3 digital coax.
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All this is very interesting; I feel more and more tempted...
my system has become more and more resolving and it makes me wanna experiment more stuff (even tho I love my VanDenHul).
Dang, I wish I had taken photos of the knock-offs. But anyway, most of the time, the respective owners knew ahead of time, that they were holding fakes. So they just shrugged, and sent those fakes to me. Might as well Cook the fakes, get the most out of them.
OTOH, on rare occasion, an audiophile was wondering why a certain cable just didn't sound right/good. So when he sent me the sample, I would communicate with my audiophile circle, and see if anyone had that product. In that way, we determined that a "Kimber KCAG" was a fake. The gauge and braiding of the internal conductors were off. But the giveaway was that the "WBT" RCAs were not the same sizes, models, or serial numbers as genuine parts.
You know what though? Some of the fakes do, in terms of sonics, outperform genuine entry-level products from the likes of, for example, Monster Cable.
Anything outperforms Monster Cable, they are the worst around.
I'd be thoroughly interested if a fake Odin beats a genuine VanDenHul integration, for example.
From what I'm reading here and there, it is a possibility (I suppose the specific geometry of the cable has a lot to do with perceived sound quality).
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