a gold plated titanium inlaid diamond weave $5000 cable..
The cable industry is awash with overpriced products, smoke and mirrors—both digital and analog. Cable manufacturers have one of the highest BS factors in the industry.
Sometimes the really cheap USB cables have poorly-made connectors that don't make good contact. That can cause problems. But the load comes from the downstream device, not from the cable, so a cheap cable won't cause load problems.I've had cheap USB cables that just didn't work very well and it usually consists of it not loading the device properly or it doing the hokey-pokey where it connects and the disconnects and reconnects and then turns itself around.