Yes i do, it makes listening to music more fun for me. But if you disagree, get a clean system and enjoy music and don't bother my preference. Because that is what it is a personal subjective preference.
And yes, i've heared a lot of clean systems also. I worked in music studio's and still do radio broadcasting where i hear clean systems like Genelec and Kii audio monitors. They are great for monitoring and mxing, but to listen to music i prefer other systems. My own home systems are largely diy build and based arround fullrange drivers, class A mosfet amps and tube amps and i love the sound they make and i don't care what you think about it as it's build for me, myself and I.
For the record, I have never heard Amir disdain “colored sound”. He follows every headphone measurement review with listening tests after he has applied DSP PEQ to his own preferences. We all have our own colorations we enjoy, whether they be the “warmth” acquired through the distortions of tubes or vinyl, or adjustments to tonality or imaging via equalization, convolution or cross feed—the options are fairly limitless.
The point is to have standards by which we determine the fidelity a given component maintains to the source material. We can argue all day about whether the available master is a valid facsimile of what the original artist intended, but the bottom line is the measuring process doesn’t care—it’s assessing how much noise or distortion is being added to the end result through errors in the DA process, for whichever master we have to work with.
Just as DAC measurements provide an assessment of how accurately the original master is reproduced through the DA conversion process, the Harman Curve is a similar standard devised to help tame an industry that has never conformed to
any reference point in terms of how headphones should be tuned in order to satisfy the listening preferences of the greatest number of consumers. Given the infinite number of variances that influence how we respond to a given headphone’s tuning—from age, hearing acuity, fit, to even the shape of our ears—no two people are going to hear a given headphone the exact same way. Having a baseline to compare is surely a reasonable way to give consumers some point of reference when making purchase decisions.
You may like the colorations brought through modifications to the source material, but you’re not being rigorous about the etiology of those colorations—simply saying you like colored sound doesn’t describe how it’s brought about. But I think we can all agree that we don’t want uncontrolled
processing errors or flaws to construction to be providing undisciplined colorations to our system’s sound—we should be starting with a clean palate and adding intentional colorations to suit our individual tastes, don’t you think?