Chinese Cables that sound good

Bought Kimber Kable 8TC bulk cable from Aliexpress to make speaker cables for my surround sound second system.  Looks identical, the copper strands vary in gauge and are wrapped in Teflon same KK.  Very happy with the sound improvement for $38.00 (5m)

I do like to make my own power cables following VH Audio’s Flavor 4 DIY recipe. Chris has some nice wire for reasonable prices.

A few years ago I decided to try some new power cables for my Monarchy Audio mono’s.  I had always run the stock rubber cords on everything.  I found a pair of beefy looking W Audio pc’s on epay for $25 bucks a piece.  What the heck. I was very surprised to hear a very noticeable difference. Shocked actually. Tighter bass,better soundstage,everything just more coherent.  I’ve upgraded every cable at this point,however I still use those cables today on a pair of subs in my secondary system,in “The Pit”.  It was one of those purchases that got the ball rolling to spend more money,when I heard what cables could actually do for sound. 

Here we go again!

I probably don't want to know what that's an acronym for.

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It's a good question, because there are so many kinds. Some look really well made, but that's not a guarantee. I got lucky with my fake interconnects. I'm curious about braided cables that look like Kimber (no, they're not labeled Kimber). There are many others that look interesting as well. There are even bi wire sets that look good. I use bi wire speaker cables so that looked interesting to me.

Foxhole? What a weird word come to think of it. Terriers go to ground and dig out a fox. Fox hounds run foxes down and _______ them. So what part of a "FOXHOLE" is good? As for the target on their chest, I prefer my back, hit me if you can, I'm out of here. They use to call me "The Chameleon". I can be the only person on a basketball court and blend in..

As for the cables, OP have you ever hooked up ANY cables that took your breath away. I have not. But certain cable do certain thing I like and others don't. It's a cable to a speaker. I haven't used bad cables, but I've sure used some that are better than others. 

More than 1/2 the cables I buy from China are not put together they way I would put it together. I look at the cable wire and see how it was pulled through the die.

I also order with Y spade connectors on both ends or double bullets/banana. BUT the ends are the same. I've reversed direction on the cable at least 25-30% of the time.. The other 15% of the time I'm swapping terminal ends out and went to copper, red copper, copper with silver clad or pure silver. It all makes a big difference.. NO Solder either.. RCA is the exception

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@carlsbad , you get the irony of getting involved in a thread saying that your not getting involved, right?

I have patience to wait, and hands on to build my own, so China epacks, Aliexpress are terrific sources for me for items or parts, wire, cables, I might cut the ends off .....

After choosing an item I want, i.e. Cat 8, 6 nines copper I used to make speaker cables ... especially Aliexpress, I learned to pay attention to the shipping cost, that can make more difference than the item's cost.

If already paying some shipping, rather than get just what you need, find the same thing but in a package with a few spares, i.e. gold plated parts: adapters, banana plugs, ...

Interconnects with locking RCA connectors, waiting now for XLR/locking RCA 6 nines copper. Always as advertised, always sound great.

I'm very happy with the Viborg VP1606 power cable I used to make the cable for my amp.  It can now be bought with terminations.  Highly recommended.  It replaced a very good Supra cable and the difference was apparent.

Most branded cables are made in China anyway.

Onti Cat8, large diameter solid core, well shielded with magnesium cast connectiors. A class act for little money

they built bunch of fakes from most expensive wires and people were buying them hearing no differences. so they must be super good.