I never had the chance to try the product before buying it (in Milano. Italia), so I decided to "risk" the purchase after all the positive reviews seen by indipendent reviewers.
I must say that at the biginning I was lost, and the first days I arrived to think that I did not have the right "pair of ears" for the job.
But then, i spent more hours and it happened, my brain and ears got the VSX hardware\software combo trick, and I started to immerse in the various sonic scenarios, and after a couple of months I can say this is a real gamechanger.
I am a little ashamed to say that I found myself reaching the speakers knob a lot of time, thinking I was waking the neighborhood up, while insted I was only in these hradphones....
I have only one exact speaker myself,reproduced in the VSX system, and I could easily sell it back now, because the reproduction is incredibly accurate. The same for my old beyer 770, replicated with all that annoying harsh trebles that made me mix wrongly a lot of tracks.
Sure most people must spend some time to get used to this, but once it's in your ears you really understand the worth of the purchase.