Chinese Cables that sound good


Please share your chinese cable purchases that sounded good, and even horror stories of cables that didn't work out.

People get lured into aliexpress and other sites when the see expensive looking cables that appear very similar to well-known audiophile high-priced units, but at a fraction of the cost.

THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT IF ITS RIGHT OR WRONG TO COPY OTHERS' DESIGNS.  ITS ABOUT WHICH CABLES SOUND GOOD AND/OR PERFORM WELL.

There are lots of chinese cables to choose from:

- Power cables 

- USB cables (separating signal and data)

- Speaker cables

- Interconnects

- HDMI / IIS cables

 

I've tried a pair of Xansane silver plated copper, braided, speaker cables, to replace generic 12AWG copper that I was using.  The pair cost around $230 CAD.  It appeared to be made well.  However, I didn't notice any difference in the sound of my speakers.  2nd however, I also didn't take notes beforehand or do critical listening...I was just expecting to be blown away somehow but I wasn't.  I will be DIY'ing my future cables (power, interconnects, USB, and maybe speaker) using the DIY Helix cable information found on this site (link to thread).

But for now, I want to see what worked for other people.

 

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A few years ago I decided to try some new power cables for my Monarchy Audio mono’s.  I had always run the stock rubber cords on everything.  I found a pair of beefy looking W Audio pc’s on epay for $25 bucks a piece.  What the heck. I was very surprised to hear a very noticeable difference. Shocked actually. Tighter bass,better soundstage,everything just more coherent.  I’ve upgraded every cable at this point,however I still use those cables today on a pair of subs in my secondary system,in “The Pit”.  It was one of those purchases that got the ball rolling to spend more money,when I heard what cables could actually do for sound. 

Bought Kimber Kable 8TC bulk cable from Aliexpress to make speaker cables for my surround sound second system.  Looks identical, the copper strands vary in gauge and are wrapped in Teflon same KK.  Very happy with the sound improvement for $38.00 (5m)

I do like to make my own power cables following VH Audio’s Flavor 4 DIY recipe. Chris has some nice wire for reasonable prices.

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I have all my cables made in Texas. I like that when I listen to my music the singers have more of a twang