LOL except Abyss, I don't think any headphone making company has had put any thoughts onto the cable. And I believe those engineers at Focal was only thinking about comfort versus sound when getting that cable, especially of how they have come up with a 4meter long stock cable. And every company wants to make extra profit out of everything and getting the best cable to come with the headphone is really impossible. Just think about all those cable companies, how many years have they been designing cables? It took Focal 4 years to develop the headphone, so you think will they put another 4 years into cable development for one headphone? And cables aren't their specialty, which they have to develop from scratch; therefore, any chance you think they should waited and keep wasting money when there are so many aftermarket cables? Though in businessman perspective of theirs it is just about money, if they were to include a very good cable with Utopia, how much it is gonna be? $6000? Then how many headphones they can sell? And how many of us would buy a $6k headphone?