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Chinese Cables that sound good

Please share your chinese cable purchases that sounded good, and even horror stories of cables that didn't work out.

People get lured into aliexpress and other sites when the see expensive looking cables that appear very similar to well-known audiophile high-priced units, but at a fraction of the cost.

THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT IF ITS RIGHT OR WRONG TO COPY OTHERS' DESIGNS.  ITS ABOUT WHICH CABLES SOUND GOOD AND/OR PERFORM WELL.

There are lots of chinese cables to choose from:

- Power cables 

- USB cables (separating signal and data)

- Speaker cables

- Interconnects

- HDMI / IIS cables

 

I've tried a pair of Xansane silver plated copper, braided, speaker cables, to replace generic 12AWG copper that I was using.  The pair cost around $230 CAD.  It appeared to be made well.  However, I didn't notice any difference in the sound of my speakers.  2nd however, I also didn't take notes beforehand or do critical listening...I was just expecting to be blown away somehow but I wasn't.  I will be DIY'ing my future cables (power, interconnects, USB, and maybe speaker) using the DIY Helix cable information found on this site (link to thread).

But for now, I want to see what worked for other people.

 

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dz13
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I mostly buy boutique stuff from American although I do get stuff from Amazon. I don’t think it is possible to divorce yourself from bad labor practices which exist in every country unless you are completely off the grid and only living off the land so I’m not going to get into the right or wrong of it. Even if you just buy American, that doesn’t mean that component parts or some materials didn’t come from elsewhere.

Anyhow, back to the OP’s question. Based upon some user’s review (rave) which I’m unable to dig up, I got this I2S cable from AliExpress which was far less expensive than other cables and seems to sound very good:

AVplay HD-300 99.99% Silver Customized Hi-end HiFi Audio DAC DDC CD HD-MI IIS RJ45 Digita Wire Player Connect DAC 4K 8K Cable

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