Thanks for the review, hook it to a speaker amp and all the cons are gone. And it becomes monstrously GREAT!

Hey Lorspeaker. Interesting, I haven't heard D7000 needing a speaker amp until now. It didn't seem to be underpowered with Burson Conductor which has ~2W in 32 ohms.

Another very simple fix is some light parametric EQing to control some of the stronger bass frequencies. I control for 60hz which is the reported cup resonance frequency, plus I do a slight cut at 125hz and at 200hz. I have also made a very modest cut as well at the 9000khz to tone down the treble. Some may think you shouldn’t need to do this if the headphones are that good, but that isn’t my view. Almost every headphone has at least a few areas it needs help in, but if it is worth it than you have a good reason to do so. For me, the D7000s can be sublime and what they can do when compared against what they don’t do as well is a huge nod toward what they do well. Rich, moist, organic and engaging sound, plenty of timbre and scale that I love. While the bass bleeding issue exists, it really isn’t very bad at all, it can mostly be mitigated with a parametric EQ and the capability of these cans is wonderful and totally justifies the little effort needed to EQ them.

Just in case anybody happens along who doesn’t know much about a parametric EQ it is important to realize that a parametric EQ allows you to limit how much the adjusted frequency affects other adjacent frequencies. Therefore if you adjust the 125 Hz range for instance, you can greatly limit how much the adjustment actually affects adjacent frequencies which is very important. You want to do narrow, targeted adjustments, not large and broad adjustments.

Like Lorspeaker said, hook it up better yet to a vintage amp headphone out and you'll be amazed.  Lawton mod the drivers, add either Alpha pads or Lawton angle pads and these headphones are amazing. 

I don't believe in any type of EQ. You may find that the bass will clean up with some different equipment changes. The D-7000s will scale up into tight detailed bass response but it needs to be worked out in the signal path up stream. They scale up to a place most don't have the patience or equipment change-outs to stumble on. The bass is perfectly detailed in the right rig. There will always be the wooden slight echo effect but it can be minimized too. When the slight echo is taken out detail of the complete mid spectrum fills the area. IMO When the congestion is removed they start to come alive.