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Maybe FR should not be the biggest factor in evaluating a headphone...
But it is though I agree with everything else you've said. I even agree with your above statement - maybe it shouldn't be - but who has the time, the energy, or the sufficiently fine-grained parametric EQ to perfectly adjust each HP before evaluating? Perceived FR will be different for everybody, because we all have different ears, and will prefer different eartips, etc. But it's pretty important we find a HP with an FR that works for us. At least it is for me, because I want to be able to use a variety of sources, many of which don't allow any form of EQ.
The KSE1500 looks like an exception to this, because it has a really nice parametric EQ built in to its amp - but anytime you use this, you engage its internal DAC, which is something you might not want to do if, for example, you were running from the LO of a Chord DAC.