This thing blew my mind. I was skeptical given all the hype, but I swear that properly set up, the Realiser makes headphones sound about 95 percent like speakers. It kind of freaked me out at first. I literally can point to all the instruments imaging in a decently wide sound stage about 15 feet in front of me. More than once, I've taken off my LCD-2s to convince myself that I'm listening to headphones and that no one else can hear the music coming from those (non-existent) speakers RIGHT THERE. I'm sure it helps sound quality-wise that I got the Realiser calibrated on a $300K+ system at a high-end dealer, but that isn't necessary for good imaging. 7.1 surround sound seems to work just as well, although I've only tried that on the dealer's system thus far. As a bonus, the Realiser closely mimics the sound of the dealer's state-of-the-art system. In particular, it helps with reproduction of high frequencies, which everyone knows isn't the LCD-2's strongest suit.
Anyway, if you're like me and really enjoy the sound of speakers but don't have them due to space, cost, thin walls, the WAF, or whatever, forget swapping out this or that power cord or interconnect, or even buying a new amp; the Realiser is by *far* the greatest improvement you can make to your system, IMO.
