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The fact is silver plated OFC copper is more costly and complex to incorporate into your lineup than using the same cable you use for all your other phones. The accountants at Sennheiser would say one of three things:
1-the cable makes no audible difference, use the same cheaper cable. Since they do use it, we can rule that out.
2-the cable does do something according to the engineers, so use it.
3-marketing the more expensive cable will yield greater profits over the greater costs of incorporating it.
So the choice is either 2 or 3. Now, IME and reading I know of not one instance where someone's HD800 purchase hinged on what cable it was using. Maybe I just hang out w/ the wrong crowd but I've gotten no sense of #3 being the reasonable or sound choice though it is a valid one. If you or they can show numbers supporting it then that's a different matter. If you look at the website, it says this:
"Specially tuned symmetrical, impedance matching cable with low capacitance"
No mention of silver or OFC copper in the description. No mention of composition in the speciifcations. No mention of anything on the HD800 box. You have to actually buy the phones, open the box and read the manual (p. 5) before you even see mention of silver plating or OFC copper. So exactly what kind of marketing tactic involves making such claims about an audiophile feature after the purchase has already transpired?.
Keep in mind I just had some time w/ the HD25II recently and they advertise steel cable for durability. I never even knew about it till I got the phones and I doubt other HD25II owners did either till after the fact. Those that had even read the box at all.
Now you could be right, but with my experience and lack of any data to the contrary I've yet to be persuaded otherwise. Sorry, I just don't see or hear of anyone buying the HD800 or HD25II based on what kind of cable they have.
Edit - Sorry for the OT.
