Q: The mix of my album sounds great on studio monitors and my headphones, but I played it on the speaker in my kitchen and it sounds like trash. Do I write that speaker off on account of it not being as good? Or do I try and tweak the mix to compromise with it?
A: try listening to some other records which are supposedly non trash. if they come out non-trash on the trash speaker, then the speaker is good. if non-trash music is trash on the speaker then the speaker is trash. in which case you can use it for a trash test, in which case the music passes the test if it sounds like trash. unless you're going for a grand slam, which is when everyone else's music sounds like trash on the trash speaker but yours still sounds great somehow