Sometimes you get the quality you pay extra for.
And sometimes, you don't.
I recently purchased some rounded cables from SCAN - I already had a Scan 3XS one, now I added an Akasa one and a Coolermaster one. All roughly the same price.
I expected the Akasa and Coolermaster, being branded, to be higher quality than the 3XS one.. and the Coolermaster one definitely is - lovely braided cable, fully EMI shielded -really looks like a quality piece of work. However, the Akasa one.. oh boy! There's no shielding, the rubber sleeve doesn't even cover the connector, and as soon as I pulled the 'pull here' tab, it just snapped off The 3XS one on the otherhand falls between the two - no fancy shielding, but at least it's solidly built.