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Is it Fake CMC RCA Jacks?

My order for a pair female CMC RCA has arrived last week. What makes me questioned this RCA is the CMC logo is printed on the body instead on engraved.  This makes me suspicious of the quality of this RCA plug and probably this is a fake CMC.


I have purchased quite a lot of CMC female RCA previously and none of them like this. I loved how CMC RCA design this plug, especially for DIY'ers, make it easy to install inside the chassis.

They have the bigger RCA version like I've posted here.

What makes me curious is because the CMC logo will always engraved on its body and not printed like this. Honestly what I can say that the body material is the same like the original version and built quality is thankfully just like the original.

If I try to wipe the printed with my nail, it is hard to vanished. I have seen the fake CMC before and I still remember the ugly material they use compare to the original but not like this one. This is better, as close as the original.


To fulfill my curiosity, I opened the CMC website. On their product catalog, all CMC logo is all engraved.

Oh snap! So, this is fake.

Since I already bought it, why don't I try to install it anyway?


Even when this CMC RCA is fake, this still makes my amplifier looks sexier.


Updates
I guess you should worries about the fake CMC RCA Jacks are all around right now. One things I can spot is the back side for the original CMC has a flat side on the round design shown in the white bellow and while the fake is just like an ordinary hex shown in the red one bellow. Overall appearance is same, but looking closely to the inner plastic material, there is cheap plastic are using on the fake one.


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