Blue,
Good headphone sound is certainly a useful reference.
Different headphones/lines still still tend to have different sound and tonal balance as well. So there is no absolute reference even there.
Room acoustics can certainly be a challenge getting a speaker setup to sound like phones. Phones take the room acoustics out of the equation.
With the bottom ported OHMs, floor construction can have a big effect on how bass sounds in particular. More floor interaction with more resonant types of flooring will be harder to get to sound like phones with no room acoustics.
Lots of ways to tweak a setup in a room, especially if many modular treatments are in use. More or less might be better. Other tweaks as well like speaker placement, toe-in/out.
Sounds like one of those situations where you just keep on tweaking towards the reference sound you like best until you zero in on the target.
Good headphone sound is certainly a useful reference.
Different headphones/lines still still tend to have different sound and tonal balance as well. So there is no absolute reference even there.
Room acoustics can certainly be a challenge getting a speaker setup to sound like phones. Phones take the room acoustics out of the equation.
With the bottom ported OHMs, floor construction can have a big effect on how bass sounds in particular. More floor interaction with more resonant types of flooring will be harder to get to sound like phones with no room acoustics.
Lots of ways to tweak a setup in a room, especially if many modular treatments are in use. More or less might be better. Other tweaks as well like speaker placement, toe-in/out.
Sounds like one of those situations where you just keep on tweaking towards the reference sound you like best until you zero in on the target.