Furukawa power cables

shadorne informs me that cables don't make any audible difference so there should be no difference between real cable and fake ones. Am I missing something? 😳

Lethal? Whoa! I’m out! 😛

I don't know what the reality of the situation is but the single crystal copper power cords with Acrolink Cryo connectors on eBay are way cool. From Hong Kong. If it's fake it's quite a good fake. Of course, whether the copper is really ohno single crystal from Furukawa and the connectors really are Acrolink Cryo remains to be seen and might take some doing. But that's the beauty of it!

ei001h OP
@geoffkait

Assembling a product in china by an actual company e.g. apple, casio, tannoy is different from making knock offs in someone’s basement and selling them as an actual product.

>>>>Gee, you don’t say? No one is saying anything to the contrary. But that’s the whole point, the capability and motivation to produce very good replicas/knockoffs exists in China. This issue is undoubtedly on the list trade issues we have with China. Have you seen the Made in China knockoffs of expensive cables like Audioquest? They do not (rpt not) look like they were made in someone’s basement. Have you seen the Made in China knockoffs of Babolat tennis racquets? They don’t look like they were made in someone’s basement. Have you seen the Made in China knockoffs of Casio G Shock watches? They don’t look like they were made in someone’s basement.

ei001h then wrote,
PS Audio cables on ebay are probably fake. Also, it appears some third party amazon sellers sell fakes as well. I’ve seen Analysis Plus Pro Oval Power Cable on amazon for 100 bucks. Is this a fake?

>>>>>I bought an Analysis Plus Pro Oval Power Cable for less than $100 bucks on the Internet. It’s not (rpt not) a fake. That’s the going price. And it’s a very good power cable, too. Deal of the century!

The argument that huge profits can be made by knocking off the cables in China is exactly the same argument used by real companies to have their products made in China. Companies like Casio (Japanese), Tannoy (UK), Parasound (US) now have Made in China engraved on their products. If I were to sell knock of cables, I’d pick something like say, Nordost, Audioquest or Tara Labs, not one that sounds vaguely like it might be somewhat radioactive.

Why would anybody fake an inexpensive cable? I.e., industrial cable.

Fukushima was the site of the nuclear disaster. Close. Very close. For the purposes of staying on topic I used to have a white power cord that was surplus from a commercial aircraft comm section. Sounded quite good. 

Some Sony products are made in China. Some "made in USA" products like iPhone and many audio products are made in China, I.e., manufactured or assembled in China. All tennis rackets including Yonex, a Japanese company, and Babolat, a French company, are you guessed it, made in China. It's much much cheaper skilled labor in China.