I was at a Best Buy today and noticed Alpine RCA cables & speaker wire. They were branded Type X, S, E to correlate with Alpine part delineation.

I don't see such items on the Alpine website. Are these just re-branded by some other manufacturer and exclusive to BB?

they were legitimate alpine cables, but they are AFAIK all DIsco. the type X and type R cables are pretty good quality. But you can find them a good bit cheaper from a local alpine retailer than buying them at a big box store.

The big box guys sell radios for free and rape you on accessories.

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man that place is weird...i walked in there few months ago when they got the new rf and alpine equipements...they had the old rockford brick amps BINB for sale
how does that work?

Yeah, something seemed off when I saw them and couldn't find any further info from Alpine directly. Anyway, I went with the Streetwires ZN7 series and so far so good.