Great mixers know that accuracy is overrated

The word “accuracy” gets tossed around a lot when talking about the kind of speakers you might find in a mixing room.  But then you see some very successful mixers using some decidedly non-standard speakers. Why?

Here’s what they know — given that your speakers meet some reasonable technical criteria, what’s way more important is that recordings that you know to sound good in the real world sound very, very good to you on your speakers, in your room.  

It doesn’t matter how “accurate” a speaker is, if you are not mixing things into your comfort zone, you are fighting a losing battle.  

No amount of mental translation can compensate for speakers that don’t sound comfortable to you.