Speaker cables from Asia


I see alot of offerings on speaker cables and IC's on Ebay from Asia Etc.Has anyone tried these if so how did you make out. I also have a concern that these might be like a Rolex on the streets in N.Y. look genuine but not so.
Can anyone shed a little light

Mcintosh amp & pre
VPI turntable
Rogue phono stage
Vandersteen 3A speakers
pumpkinman

Showing 3 responses by ttorigin

I don't know about the others, but Kimber cables (8TC, 12TC etc) are made in USA.
Not sure if you're talking about me.... Anyway, me too have bought stuff online from other Asian countries like Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand without any issue. But Hong Kong... I'll just steer clear of it.

Tpreaves mentioned about suspicious Kimber 12TC... If you check eBay # 320416615598, you'll notice the printing on the sleeves are different from the original. The same applies to ebay # 220466314087 and # 220466314057 where the banana plugs (which they like to copy as well) look different too, and the printing on the sleeves looks dirt cheap. They've even included a picture with an original packing box.

Check out the link below too view what Ray Kimber has to say:

http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=general&n=521027&highlight=Belgarchi

Do a search on Oyaide, Audioquest and Kamber (yes, I think they purposely spell it wrongly) products and it's not difficult to observe that almost all the suspicious items come from Hong Kong.