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Yes, since most cables are made in Asia these days, but not all.Yes.
I would assume it would have more to do with the place of manufacture, standards, testing, and qa/qc. Odds are probably good that a $5 cable or a $75 cable are manufactured in the same area.
I suggest you download and read the PDF for all the details, but how many standards do you recon there are for making housings for cables that aren't falling apart when the cable is being tugged extra hard? Admittedly they used some kind of jig for the pull test, so I would say it was a bit unfair to some of the cables, since the force ended up right behind the connector, which is unlikely to ever happen during normal usage, even if someone trips over a cable and yank it really hard that way.I would guess a lot of the issues come from, either not following the standards, or there is too many standards/overlapping standards.
I would not be surprised if there was iso, ansi, ieee, and a bunch of others involved in some part of construction, testing, etc. at some point in the production of a cable.
End result is it's unfortunate that the earths resources are basically wasted.
There was also no functional test done to see if the cables delivered in terms of meeting the actual specs the cables were designed to from what I could tell, beyond the fact that they were not meeting the standard for interference with other things. So it's obviously just a partial test that suggest that there may or may not be other issues with these cables. Sadly we live in a capitalism, where money is the only thing that matters, be it to cut two cents off the production cost of something so the manufacturer can pocket the difference, or selling this with an unreasonable markup, because of the brand selling the product. Personally, I never understood luxury goods, but then again, I'm not from a rich family so...