Back to monitors and headphones. It seems to me that GC guy had things wrong. The whole point of monitors is not to enhance the listening experience but to give you a better handle on how your song will sound across a variety of playback devices in the real world, or at least give you confidence that it will sound OK on them all, even the crappiest. To this end they dispense with the frills and give you a pure, undoctored sound that can only be enhanced by real world speakers and headphones. If I've got that wrong, can someone put me right?