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Originally Posted by chronopops
Uhh, dunno about that, bro.
I've done both, and headphones almost always give you a super inflated sense of bass and don't give an accurate picture of levels or EQ at all...
Buy some decent monitors and you're way better off...
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Seeing as this thread is about "Home Recording", you should probably also consider the cost factor. For me, "good" speakers didn't exist until you were spending $1000/pair (though the ADAM A7's were just under that for awhile while they were flushing them out last year). However, "great" headphones can be had for about $200-300.
Headphones also, as Convectuoso mentioned, are relatively independent of the room you're in, which might be a key thing to consider if your living conditions aren't well-suited to setting up a dedicated listening station. This doesn't consider the additional costs of room treatments, which build up pretty quickly.
There are, of course, other workarounds that can be considered:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090304015613/http://refinedaudiometrics.com/products-hdphx.shtml
http://www.ohl.to/about-audio/audio-softwares/head-fit
http://www.midnightwalrus.com/Canz3D/
I've used the first two. The first one is my favorite (sadly, the dev has apparently gone under). It's not perfect, but it does help with spatial issues and dramatically reduces listening fatigue related to stereo separation.
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Originally Posted by Convectuoso
Yeah you see that's where it get's hairy, what is a decent speaker? A decent speaker could be anything.
And the other part of my argument that you seem to be just ignoring is once you place a decent speaker in a shitty room, you have a mediocre monitoring environment.
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To be fair: you yourself use "decent" like it means something all the freaking time. That being said, I agree with that assessment. Not everyone will like the same things, and in many ways I'm envious of folks who think the Rockit 5's sound great (I couldn't put my finger on it in the store, but they didn't sound quite right, particularly when compared to the Dynaudios/ADAMs/Events).