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Damn straight I'm going there with the gold plating; it's not about signal transmission or gold as a conductor - it's about oxidation and durability. Plug something in and out a couple of thousand times over several years and you'll see what I mean. I've got both TRS and RCA cables from the early 2000's that I have no intention of replacing anytime soon yet I've had to replace or repair all the others that weren't high quality/didn't have gold plated connectors. I will add that because I live basically at sea level and less than 10 miles from the sea, I experience more oxidation/corrosion than probably most people, but still.
The cost difference between the Neutrik standard TRS and the Gold Plated one? $2.
And don't forget, when something starts to oxidise, the metal on the surface degrades and starts to break off. Now plug that in to your patch bay. Yep, how to fuck a patch bay in just a few short years, and there's nothing worse than a patchbay with dodgy connections.
Also, with a studio like his, he'd want the best cables possible and when Van Damme are the same price as Mogami it's a no brainer. I have a reel of mogami mic cable and it's actually pretty crap stuff. They're still using string (yes cotton) liners to give the cable flexibility, the conductors are tiny and both the shielding and insulators are really cheap.
And no, cable isn't just cable. If we were talking speaker cable you might have an argument, but line/instrument/mic cable? You know better 
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. From ear to ear, better imaging and extended bass response, especially those 808 kicks from the miami resonate on a lot longer. The GIK cornertraps really help too, the botttom units are 1.2m high each the TAD speakers are 1.22 each. The picture skews the perspective a bit IRL they are not so much backward as it seems on the pic, only the bottom woofer flanks the desk just a bit
