To expand on the analogy of seasoning, you could also use the analogy of butter.
With toast, butter is great. With steak, What!
With poultry and fish butter can do excellent things too. Its not just a question of putting butter on meat.
Colorations are not necessarily a bad thing, but can be. Every one of the 4 or 6 "uncolored" and "reference flat" headphones people throw around as reference standards sounds different. How does that work? If they are uncolored and equally flat everything should sound the same!
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its like changing the recording's sound characterists to that of the headphone in question
put grados in example: they "color" every song with the "grado sound", its not a neutral sound that keeps the original recording sound untouched.
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Well put but to be fair so do senheisers, akg, stax, audio-technicas (not a house sound, but each of their headphones is colored differently) beyerdynamic, and pretty much every transducer in existence.
It is also worth note that before the recording even left the studio it was probably changed SIGNIFICANTLY from what merged from the instruments by the recording engineers. This leads us to the question: are the effects of adjusting sound with drivers worse than the EQ that they apply before cutting the wax? I would say not at all.
All you can do is pick the color you like. I quite like grados, especially when paired with lower-end amps & sources but the best thing to do is listen to a few headphones the way you will actually use them for yourself.