bitflipper
"A $100 Apogee cable will make as much difference as a $3,000 D-A converter"
- World-famous mastering engineer / nutjob John Vestman
http://www.johnvestman.com/studio_monitor_madness.htm
 

How about this one:
 

Q) Why do you recommend to not use master faders in Protools? Sound quality would be better - is there a reason for that???

Most of the time Digidesign people disclaim that anything sounds different in Pro Tools when it comes to alternate busses, master fader, summing in the box vs. out of the box, etc.  Another Grammy-winning engineer showed us the difference in sound without the master fader - we did not expect it!

We're not computer programmers, and we can only guess that it requires more processor power to have the master fader in.  Taking the master fader out in Digital Performer makes a big difference, as does turning off graphic features like the meter display in the virtual mixer.  It just seems that there's some kind of processor "headroom" that's desireable. 

Forget what we're saying here - try it yourself and see what works best for you.  It helps a great deal if you have high resolution audio, speaker and power cables, and of course high resolution monitor control.  It makes a big difference if you have high resolution speakers that are full range, and usually not powered speakers (the vibration takes away some resolution in the image).

This is some funny stuff.....
 

drewfx1
1. Some people will believe any sort of nonsense that marketing people tell them (often corroborated by accompanying magazine/web articles).  

The magazine with the story hyping the cables also tends to have several full page 4 color ads for those cables immediately before the so-called "unbiased story".......
 
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bitflipper
It's all relative. We mock those with more money than sense for buying $300 power cables, but spend some time in a truly impoverished country and you'll start to think about your own purchases that may strike others as laughable excess. Think disposable diapers, non-recyclable containers, off-road vehicles that never leave pavement, doggie hairdressers, 80" flatscreen TVs, garage-door and gate openers, $3 bottles of water, hand-clap sample libraries.

 
 
Dave nails it again..... loved the last one..... hand clap sample libraries.....

There is a huge difference between processing /converting signals and digitally transporting them. The cable quality addresses only the transportation of the digital information (0's and 1's or high voltage and low voltage square wave pulses). As long as the cable impedance and the junction potential of its terminals keep the high voltage pulses safely over the defined threshold, then no audible difference will be noticed regardlessof the cable cost. There are many low cost cables that will fulfill this requirement. As a rule of thumb, be careful with cable length, because cable impedance increases with it and signal voltages will be attenuated as its result. 
Enjoy playing and sculpting music! 

Using DAW technology we are used to understanding the nature of digital signal transfer and the points of isolation between the digital world and the analog world. But the less technical might be easily convinced of sneak paths for signal-degrading electrical disruptions that can travel along or be induced within even a USB cable. The disruptions can crawl through the listener's equipment into their ears by every means imaginable. Someone here posted this a while back. Fun to read; fun to imagine what people can believe.