bouldersoundguy
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I record in a small apartment, so I'm just using a good set of headphones. They're actually flat response and quite accurate when I move the mix to other systems. But I never thought about how they'd affect the stereo image.
I had a feeling it was a monitoring issue. Headphones have the same problem as widely spaced monitors. Either one will exaggerate anything panned wide compared to anything panned center, and then when you play it on properly set up speakers the panned stuff sounds weak and the centered stuff sounds loud.