trying out all these prirs is fun.  It's like searching for that magic tweet that will get you closer to audio nirvana.  And if the prir doesn't work, you keep trying others.  Besides the music itself, the attempt to get better sound is part of the joy (or curse, if you will) of this hobby.  ...

I bought the realiser with the same intentions (I think) as you: to "own" hi end 2 channel sound without paying the big bucks.  In this sense, the realiser is a poor audiophile's dream come true, and  having a library of systems to choose from would fun.  Of course, how well each PRIR will sound...

  Perhaps it is the headphone limitation.  I'll try borrowing other headphones, including STAX, and I'll keep playing  around with the Realiser. But at the moment, I get more pleasure listening to my speakers.  I use Green Mountain Audio Callistos and they have great soundstaging and imaging...

After reading reviews of the Realiser and this thread, I took the plunge in January and bought one without auditioning it (none I could find in Honolulu).  I bought it from Audio High in Mountain View, about an hour outside of San Francisco, who shipped it to me in Hawaii.  I also bought a...