Is it really so great to mix on accurate monitors?

[HomeProducer]

Originally Posted by StringBean

I ask this because when i listen to a mix in my car or on laptop speakers, all the attention to detail gets lost. So why bother? In a way I think if I mixed solely to make it sound good in the car then it would sound better on lo-fi systems and I would finally realize that any and all things i put in the low-mids are completely
superfluous

detail gets lost, actually yes and no! I find my car radio to reveal all the ugly sides of the mix. Very very useful. It's like a unforgiving monitoring system.

[HomeProducer]

Originally Posted by Rob Coates

I don't have any low muddy mids in my monitoring. That's the problem. My speakers, room, treatment, whatever won't reveal the mud that is there (ie there's like a blank spot in the 150 to 300 hz range).

Sounds like you have a room problem at 150 Hz to 300 Hz, a frequency dip.

I do my mixes on BM6A mk1 plus sub, check them on HD25 (Sennheiser), tine Sony headphones (= in-ear NS10s), and on Adam A7s in another room, which is very useful, annoying upper mids will show up, plus AKG K271 for annoying muddy mids and some Phillips for annoying upper bass, and in the car, where any exaggerated 80 Hz bass will produce rumble of the door.