…spend much of the day with cans on on Teams and the like, so its nice to take them off and fire-up the monitors when I’m working on audio, although I do a fair share of that in headphones on the couch next door too.
Generally I find the optimum situation is to listen on as many different sound sources as possible, switching between earbuds, computers speakers or in the car… if I can find any kind of consistency between them I’m in the ballpark.
Having said all that, I remember watching a Joris Voorn production thing on YouTube from a few years ago when he was in his home studio with a massive bay window in front of him, and he said the most important thing was to ‘learn’ the characteristics of the space you’ve got…