Brad is like Decware. He takes your order and then builds the item. He does not know how long it will take. It might be a few days or weeks or months depending on how many orders he happen to have at the time and the availability of materials. If he told everybody it will take months, he probably will not get many orders. I know I wouldn’t order if I knew it would take months. It is not good the way he is doing it and most likely be out of business soon. I only feel sorry for him. He does have some very good stuff.
Scheduling 101 is part of a having a service oriented business. If it takes 1 day to build a cable and you have 5 or 10 orders, let me see - that must be about 5 or 10 weeks to deliver?
If you order from Iconoclast they usually have them out the door the next business day. And they are all made to order.
Hey man…chen, you’ve actively stoked the whole WW Upgrade-a-Thon thing. NOW it is this one guy, “maybe-you’ll get it…eventually” cable maker that you started this thread Warning us about… 
I think it’s time to end it. No more from me.
Sure, I buy three WWPS HDMI cables and you tell me fulfillment awaits with another brand and YOU are DONE. Hmmmmpf.
I deal with an electronics repair shop. Always has stacks of product in line. First repair though reasonable 4 months. Next time I met with tech. Slipped him tip cash beforehand Took 3 days. He now greets me at the car if I pull up.
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Yes!
I presume it costs more money because the companies remaining.like this are a vanishingly small in number
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Money talks and BS walks. The way it should be!
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The best thing to do is if you suspect a cable is going to be better than what you have is don’t find one and listen to it. I use to have WW Platinum Eclipse 7’s interconnects throughout my system. Then I borrow a Eclipse 8 from my brother to put between preamp and power amp. I end up buying a pair of 8’s because I couldn’t listen to my system without it. Now I ask my brother to bring the 8’s over to try between phono and pre. I have the 7’s there right now. I just ordered another pair of 8’s from Walter and it will be here by Thursday. Oh boy, more fun. The 7’s just don’t do it for me anymore. I don’t think I want to listen to the 8’s between turntable and phono. I have the 7’s there right now. This is costing me too much.
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I agree wholeheartedly !
It’s a shame Brad doesn’t.
I’ve not read through this entire thread. I wouldn’t buy from China having succumbed to fake AC12 cables (sold on eBay as ‘used, with box’ from HK). They looked like the real thing with the PSA specific UK and IEC plugs - it’s easy to get the outer sheath and put cooker cable inside (a giveaway is the weight of the cable as this faker didn’t ensure that the overall weight was correct - obviously it’s difficult to know what the weight should be. When I see a used PSA AC cable on eBay I ask the seller the weight - it’s amazing how many sellers never respond to this question). I hope that in future PSA never use China again - they go to extraordinary lengths to create fakes, presumably by getting things like connectors from the back door of the factory). Here’s a picture of a so-called AC12 cable:
Heh.
My education came years go when an expat friend took me on a shopping trip in Hong-Kong for a fake Rolex. We wound our way into a back alley shop that looked like a set for James Bond movie.
Turns out the proprietor sold three levels of “Rolex:” good, better, and best. The “best” was a remarkable facsimile, but still distinguishable from the real thing if you knew what to look for. OTOH, the Tag Heuers in stainless were impossible to tell.
I was told that a lot of the well-known watch companies used precision manufacturers in the the New Territories close to H-K. Different parts were made in different factories in an attempt to prevent pirating, but there was an underground network that would get parts from all of them in order to assemble what, in some cases, were an authentic but not “official” product.
Caveat emptor, for sure.
I bought some fake cables from eBay in the past. Some actually sounds pretty decent, but when you compare them to the real thing, they sounded a bit distorted. From the outside, it’s very hard to tell because the outer jacket and connectors looks pretty real. But the conductors are not. The fake AudioQuest had the same power pack as the real one. My brother bought a real Wild from the dealer and it had the identical power pack. When you cut open the fake cable, the conductor had insulation printed with the right words “AudioQuest Wild”. Only when you scrape the conductor, it is copper underneath a thin silver or tin layer. The fake Siltechs also had fake plated copper conductors. Of course they are not nearly close to the sound of the real thing. There are so many fakes out there from so many different labels, it’s sometimes a risky business to buy a cable used. You never know what you get.
Sounds like some of you are drinking CON man kool aid. The guy is obviously a fake and a flake! No REAL company behaves this way. I’m pretty sure the cables he makes in his garage are fantastic! LOL.
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Many people, myself included, do not approve of the way RAL conducts business. But questionable business practices do not automatically equate to poor-quality cables. By the same token, the fact that a cable company is a well-run business does not necessarily mean it produces great-sounding cables (in its heyday, Monster Cable appeared to be a well-run business; not everyone loved the sound of its cables, however). My limited experience with RAL comes from owning its dual-conduit USB cable for some time, and I think it is a fantastic-sounding cable. I am in the process of selling it (albeit reluctantly) because of recent changes to my system that limit my ability to take advantage of its dual-conduit design. Its soon-to-be new owner is an active PS Audio Forum participant who has some highly regarded [single-conduit] USB cables. I will be interested to learn what he thinks of the RAL USB.
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Okay I just ordered a brand new Revelation HDMI cable, 1.25m, from a reseller on Audiogon so hopefully I don’t have to deal with Brad issues. I can’t wait to be blown away by it. I’ll have a spare WWPS7HDMI cable if it does indeed outperform it.
This dang cable nonsense, it could get old.
Edit: aw crap, it wasn’t a reseller, it was Brad. Bah. So much for instant gratification…
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Let’s hope you got lucky and Brad has one available to ship and don’t have to wait for him to built one.
This cable sounds even better when it breaks in. Sounds more relaxed with incredible resolution.
When you get it and it don’t work for you, you can sell it to me. I could use another one.
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It sounds like it might be a while before you get it, but keep me in mind if you decide to sell one of the WW’s. Might be interested by then😁
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Got an email this morning that says my cable has shipped! Hmmmmm.
Does the email from the Post Office say shipped, or that the label has been created?
From older reports, he has a habit of creating shipping labels, and then not actually getting around to shipping.