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I've had a think, and I reckon you're confusing onset of the voicing in [n] with a vowel. Out of interest, I'm guessing you have no problems pronouncing 4-segment Russian word-initial consonant clusters (which violate 'standard' sonority rules)? I don't really know much about Russian, tho, and the Wiki article says that epenthesis is a common way of getting round them.
@Oliver Schick it's probably worth considering that the initial [k] in Knipex is aspirated, so 'Hackey' etc. isn't a like-for-like comparison. Also, in the video I posted, a German guy pronounces the brand as /knɪpeks/ rather than /kni:peks/, but I reckon both are common. He's speaking English in the video, I should add.