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Keep in mind that it's his ears and he hears what he hears. This isn't the sound science forum, people discuss their subjective opinions here. It's the one thing objectivists can't reconcile; the fact that listening to music is at it core is an inherently subjective endeavor.
Who are these people that consider the stock cable "comparable to if not better than many of the top of the line cable companies out there"? I own the 7000's and I follow all of the threads on them that I can. I have seen no consensus that the stock cables are anything either bad or good. Even though they do supposedly use 7 Nines copper there are other design criteria that may limit their sonic performance (Such as flexibility and durability) that after market cables seldom pay particular attention to.
I can tell you that several experienced Head-Fiers who didn't paticularly like the stock 7000's have liked my recabled set.
What exactly is the motivation for crapping on someone else enjoying their newly recabled headphones?
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What is the motivation? The motivation is to point out that this person did NOT have both sets of headphones side by side and listened to the recabled ones weeks after he last heard the stock ones, and due to that situation, the man should not be quantifying the percentage improvement in sound he heard.
If he can't listen to them side by side and do a DBT to prove he can hear an improvement, if any difference at all, then he should say something along the lines of "The recabled D7000s sound quite a bit better than I remember the stock sounding.". Quantifying it and stating it as fact isn't something you can do in a situation like this, it will mislead other curious buyers.
And as for people who consider the stock comparable to or better than many top of the line cables, let's just throw the big name in Denons out there who knows far more about them than you or I, Mark Lawton. There was a post on these forums I read once where he said that while a certain $280 recable from a well known company (one of if not the most popular company for recables on this forum) offered some positive gains, it was also accompanied by some negatives.
He also states right on his site that the stock cable is very good and comparable to many of the big names in cables.
Anyways, the point of my post was to point out that it very well could have been placebo effect. I have no problem with people expressing their subjective opinions here, but don't do it by quantifying the improvement in SQ when you can't A/B the headphones in a proper DBT setting so there can be no placebo interference.