I fully agree with you justanoldmuso - I can't stand the thought that my mixes will be mostly listened to on a MONO phone speaker of all things, let alone junk earbuds or a car stereo with the bass cranked to 12!

Part of it is I can't stand earbuds - I have fairly small ears so they tend to just hurt. I haven't owned earbuds in at least a decade, except for the free ones Apple gives me whenever I get a new phone! I use my HR824's for most of my mixing, then check it on my ATHM50's, my 40 year old hifi system, the built in speaker in my Mac Pro, my car stereo (which is stock Pontiac and appropriately terrible), and finally the phone speaker. I usually get very good results making sure it sounds good on the studio monitors, and mixes end up translating well on "lesser" systems.


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