The important thing here is that no matter what monitoring system you use, and you should be using the best monitors you can afford to own, you also need to LEARN that speaker system to be able to get the best and most consistent results that translate well to the majority of the speaker systems your songs might be played on.

The big studios don't set there and play the material on multiple speaker systems. Most of them do not have the time to do that. They use ONE system that they know the EQ on and when it's played on TV, radio, stereo systems, car stereo, mp3 players etc, it's 99% accurate on them all. Good mastering will do that for you, but you have to know the speaker system to get that result every time.

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You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.

The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.