Reply to Could Use Some Advice on Optimizing for Different Sound Systems

I'm looking for some advice from the audiophiles out there. It concerns some theory regarding using a self contained rig on varying sound systems.

To give the background, I use a self contained rig that routes TPro in external mode into Ableton, where my controllers + Ableton act as a virtual mixer. The audio is processed with a number of devices in Ableton, including a sonic enhancer and some light compression to gel the mix.

At home I use a pair of good workhorse studio monitors, the Event PS-8s, with no subs. The whole idea behind good studio monitors is so that when you finalize your mix, it should sound good on as many systems as possible. OK, fine.

So I've tweaked everything to the point where the mixes sit well, everything sounds great all the time, and even without subs, the output sounds HUGE. Great.

But the question arises as to what happens when dropping that output into another monster system with it's own rack of maximizers, exciters and compressors. I worry that certain frequencies will then become very overpowering. To me this kind of defeats the whole purpose of mixing on your studio monitors to sound as good as possible.

I ask because I just played this large system where I spent the entire gig with my bass eq turned down like -15%, just to keep it in check, and the overall character of the sound suffered as a result. At home things sound great with my bass eq anywhere up to +20%

Should I actually be tweaking the rig in a way to "dumb down" the sound on my studio monitors? Just thought the point was to make it sound as bangin as possible at home. It seems counter intuitive to be asking a club what enhancers/maximizers they have in the chain, and if they could turn them down a couple notches.

Thoughts?