Originally Posted by Janice & Bud
I started mixing in the 60's and have always used monitors ... so I'm biased smile but I thought this BMI article might be of interest. FWIW our kali monitors have an 8” woofer and settings allowing adjustment for how you place them. We also check our mixes on our large living room system with a sub, on our HomePod, in our vehicle and on Janice’s AirPods.
And, yep, I realize this has been often discussed!
I'm also biased as I exclusively mix on monitors, however I do check with headphones and my home and car stereos. I find it easier to hear most mix problems with monitors (particularly phase and polarity issues).

Originally Posted by rayc
I'm glad I like to mix with monitors because I get ear fatigue quickly with headphones/pods/buds.
Try some nice open-back headphones if you haven't already - they typically don't suffer from anywhere as much ear fatigue as closed-backs. AKG K240's are one of the industry standards and are inexpensive, lightweight, and sound fantastic (take a look at Beyerdynamic DT990 and Sennheiser HD600 if you feel like spending more). My K240's are coming up on 50 years old and still sound awesome (and I prefer them over my K7XX's). I also use a pair of Grado SR60e's and they're easily my most used headphones, though they're not really "flat" enough for mixing.


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