Audioquest SKY Interconnects

Long time ago AQ moved production to China and renamed ICs to stay competitive.  Python became King Cobra, Viper became Diamondback etc.  I had both, Viper and King Cobra.  I decided to upgrade and considered Sky.  It was too expensive and I went for Acoustic Zen Absolute instead ($650  0.5m XLR used).
I wouldn't buy any cable from ebay (unless it comes from well known store), especially cheap Chinese copy.  You get what you paid for.

@bigkidz  You said:

I see on eBay what I believe are copies of the AQ Sky interconnects

King Cobra is pretty much the same in character as Diamonback (Viper), but a little more refined (smoother).  It is very neutral, open sounding with nice treble extension.  In comparison Acoustic Zen Absolute is little "faster" with darker background (and more refined).  Absolute is made of zero-crystal pure silver with oversized hollow core foam Teflon insulation.  It results in extremely small capacitance and inductance (6pF/ft, 0.02uH/ft).  It would be pretty easy to make plain cable that just looks the same and sell it on ebay.  Last year I bought pretty nice Hakko soldering iron with station.  There are identical irons on ebay, for much less.  The only difference is slightly different mark on the bottom.  They are cheap Chinese illegal copies.  If they copy $100 soldering iron, wouldn't they copy $2000 cable?  AZ Absolute Silver runs at about $900 used.  It is almost 50% of the new pair.  Sky, at the price you mentioned is 10%

Audioquest is made in China.  I've read about it in the interview with the head of AudioQuest, but I cannot find it right now.  I'm not sure if they make all cables in China, but my King Cobra have sign "Made in China".  If you have King Cobra look on the right bottom of the back side of the box.  There is a tiny sign "Made in China" under larger red word "Jaguar".  Also, moving production to China was the reason for renaming cables (lower prices of the same thing).  King Cobra is the newer version of Python that was quite expensive.  Check construction and materials of both.

I never said it makes any difference. I mentioned it only to show that the same cables from US and China had different names and prices.  Still, cheap imitations most likely won't be of the same quality, no matter where made.

As for China, I type it on wireless Logitech keyboard (made in China), connected to MacMini (made in China) and to ViewSonic monitor (made in China). All wonderful quality.