How Is This Possible? Must be Counterfeits

Nordost selling a cable for $60k is not a scam if you believe that it makes your system sound better.

It is also true that no one will be able to rank any group of high-end cables by price, and you could probably include a few quality made Chinese knockoffs in that group along with them.

The question you have to ask about the fakes is, are they made as described in the product description details? If they are-- they just might be decent cables.

Honestly, anyone that believes they’re getting a real value for spending $60k on a cable, and has the money to do it -- well I’m pretty sure you’re what Nordost calls "a perfect customer".

Using excellent cables is important in any highly resolving audio system-- and a lot of cable companies take advantage of that situation by pricing their products crazy high -- because confirmation bias can be, with the right marketing, a gold mine.

What’s crazy to me, is not that there are fakes out there, but how many reviews I have read about how great they sound.

@curiousjim 

Have you ever considered that it might be true?

’Counterfeit’ is when product of inferior quality pretends to be a real thing. As far as I can tell, Chinese knockoff do no pretend and simply advertise as ’same schematics’ for amps or ’same materials and technology’.

Prices of ’real’ thing are not defined by quality or cost of materials. They are defined by how many units company can sell using its brand name. dCS sells DACs for $20K. Chinese can use same parts, they have same quality of engineers and FPGA programmers, China manufactures those 0.0001% tolerance parts so they can definitely replicate products at fraction of their brand name costs.

This is generally normal process in all industries. Eventually everyone can make your better mousetrap and it is no longer exclusive.

Selling the Bridge of San Francisco for a price as low as $ 60K is not a scam if you believe that you own the bridge and no one can contradict you because you live in Australia and it make you feel good.. Trust me i can sell it right now for this price...I will wait for those interested ...😊

Nordost selling a cable for $60k is not a scam if you believe that it makes your system sound better.

Cables with very high price appear to me as a scam of his own for very rich people able to call that a good deal because it make "a difference" ...

Anything can make a difference ... Legally or not ... Legitimate or not ...

How about my own cable i may sell 100K bucks only , why not ? i modified them with my secret mixture (shungite+quartz+copper ) ? 😊

Nobody ready to buy multi thousand dollars cable dare to try my simple experiment ... i trust myself ONLY my experiment ... At peanuts costs ...