Dialogue Pre-Mix - With High End Headphones? (AUDEZE MM-500)

Hello,

I'll start with the question (the title says it all):

Does anyone use headphones frequently to do pre-mixes, especially DX pre-mixes in their studio?

Same approach as in music production: high quality headphones as an additional tool to better analyse a mix?

I use HPs (DT 880 Pro) for Dx editing. I don't miss edits and clicks when I use them. I do sound design in my small 5.1 studio using KH120 II speakers with bass management. For indie/low budget projects and short films, I also do the re-recording at times. So when I do the sound design, I also do Dx editing and integrate the foleys. In other words, I pre-mix the entire soundtrack before I go into the mixing stage. At leat in my bubble, thats quite common for such projects.

I've always find that I can do better pre-mixing the dialogue though.

So more time can be spend on the overall dramaturgy of the soundtrack.

I'm aware of the limitations of a small room and know that quite some time has to be spent on dialogue in the mixing stage.

In my case, I think it needs a more precise and detailed focus on the mid/low mids beforehand. Something where my room and my 120s might get a little muddy. When re-recording, I mostly find myself trying to keep the "body" and mids of the vocals in check. By firing more spl into the big theatre room, problems are occurring during re-recording, that I didn't find problematic in my small studio. My studio is treated well and my speakers are calibrated (sure, there's always room for better equipment), but the physics of a small room can't be ignored. The same goes for the physics of a large theater and its PA.

I wonder if a pair of very accurate, high quality headphones could do the trick. Here is why:

Last year I was composing and mixing for a theatre play and had to work on location. They didn't have a studio, but they had AUDEZE MM-500 headphones, and I was very impressed with what you can do with them (as long as you consider the basic characteristics of headphones).

When the mix was right, the bass was punchy and dynamic but still very dense, the mids were very detailed, the soundstage was clear and open, problematic nuances in the mids where made clear, at leat to my ears)

I wonder what mixing dialogue on these could do to the pre-mix and my "problem areas".

Can any of you relate to what I've written? Does anyone have a similar approach?

best regards