Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
I think near field monitoring is so important. The real thing is to find monitors you are confortable with, and then over time your ears will learn the sound.
Agree 100%. I sit in front of my monitors for 8-12 hours a day, and nearly always have music going - my mixes have improved eleventy-billion percent in the last year. My friends now ask me to help them EQ their home stereo systems. :) When I make tracks these days, they sound fine wherever I play them...

...that is, when I find time to do any audio work. :( The downside of working an IT day job while sitting in your studio is that at the end of the day, the last place you want to be is in your "office". :( Maybe soon I'll have some time off to work on music more than a handful of hours a week.