Balancing Mixes for Theatrical vs. Consumer Devices: How to Compromise?

Hey everyone,

I'm a VFX artist, but I've been doing a lot more post-audio work on some of our smaller narrative projects lately. We just wrapped a short shot on an ALEXA Mini, and the grade looks incredible, but I'm tearing my hair out with the audio mix.

I've got it sounding really solid on my studio monitors, great dynamic range, dialogue crisp, music sitting perfectly. The issue comes when I listen on consumer devices, specifically laptop speakers. It just... falls apart. Dialogue gets buried, the low end disappears, and everything sounds thin. I know this is a common problem, as every guide mentions QCing on various devices.

My problem is, how do I make compromises for those tiny speakers without completely butchering the beautiful, dynamic mix I have for a proper theatrical or festival screening? I'm using a MixPre-10 II for field recording and editing in Resolve. I've tried some subtle compression tweaks and slight EQ adjustments, but anything significant starts to really hurt the mix on the studio monitors. Is there a trick to this balancing act? How do you guys approach it?