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In Reply to: Fake Audio Note cables? posted by muzikat on January 10, 2009 at 09:18:27:
It looks like it would be impossible to tell the fakes from that poor photo quality in the listing.
Last year some fake AN-Vx interconnects were sent to me by a seller who was anxious to know if they were genuine. He had bought them on Ebay from Hong Kong.
At first the seller sent some photos that were high rez with good quality closeups of the printing on the jacket, the outside view of the connectors, and the internal connections of the conductor. In the photos, the lettering didn't look like any Audio Note printing I'd seen and the exterior of the connectors look a little too shiny for AN-P connectors. The individual conductors looked like the real thing though.
It wasn't conclusive to me so I emailed the photos to Peter Qvortrup (which he promptly answered as usual) and he couldn't tell for sure if they were AN either.
When the cable finally arrived it took about 2 minutes to proove they weren't genuine. The conductor strands looked like silver but they definitely weren't litz, and they sounded horrible compared to the AN-V cable in my system.
It wouldn't be so bad for the victims if these were good-sounding knock-offs of Audio Note cable, but in fact they're just bad fakes.
So, my suggestion to avoid getting ripped off with fake AN cables is to buy them either from a authorized reseller, or second hand only if you know their provenance.
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- RE: Fake Audio Note cables? - Frank E 01/10/0914:38:16 01/10/09 (0)
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