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One angle you can try is to find a hi-fi store that sells headphones. You can tell them you want to come in and do a measurement and then compare their various headphones when used with the Realiser. It would be an interesting exercise regardless so you can hear how other high end headphones compare with Stax. Sadly there isn't anywhere that's going to have Stax though.
I would also try to attend a headphone meet. The one I am organizing here is going to be a good chance for me to try different headphones with my Realiser. Sometimes people show up with some pretty high end rigs. You can then do the HPEQ fairly quickly without having to do a whole PRIR.
Thanks much! I am happy to pay a shop to do a measurement. I've done this with several places. I think I'll just try to get in touch with David White and see what he says. In the meantime, yes, the localization effects I'm sure are very similar from one set of phones to another. Being an audiophile type, I am very interested in the actual tonality/sound quality of the signal in addition to localization/sound stage. Maybe I will wind up upgrading to better phones at some point and see what that is like.
One angle you can try is to find a hi-fi store that sells headphones. You can tell them you want to come in and do a measurement and then compare their various headphones when used with the Realiser. It would be an interesting exercise regardless so you can hear how other high end headphones compare with Stax. Sadly there isn't anywhere that's going to have Stax though.
I would also try to attend a headphone meet. The one I am organizing here is going to be a good chance for me to try different headphones with my Realiser. Sometimes people show up with some pretty high end rigs. You can then do the HPEQ fairly quickly without having to do a whole PRIR.