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Quoted from "ckemper"

Quoted from "labou"

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Honestly, I would not want at this point to bypass your cabinet system to go back using a regular guitar power amp and cabinet since for me it would be loosing too much of what the Kemper is offering. On the other hand I would really like to be told "to get the best out of the Kemper use that FRFR system", there is simply too many options at an incredibly wide range of prices and none seems to bring consensus.

Also, you seems to have work very hard on your cabinet emulation technology, so I though you might also have an idea on what system and speaker would be the best to reproduce it....

Thanks.

I think I cannot answer fhis question.
I find this "what is a good FRFR" questions a bit odd, it's like asking somebody what is the best home speakers to listen to your favorite record.

The best FRFR might be the one, where your favorite record sounds the best.
Your Profiler should sound great with it.

Put that way it does sound odd I agree. My thinking was the following:

There is thousands of FRFR system and HIFI stereo out there because(I assume) there is also thousands of possible sound source. If I was giving you a single CD, a single sound source and was asking for a FRFR system to play it back I would expect to have something very specific that would maybe not suit other CD or music type. My though was that the Kemper could be that single sound source since you control and know in advance what would the outcome of the profiling be since you are generating it, no? And therefore have something to reproduce it perfectly... maybe I'm dreaming Cost nothing to ask anyway

Thanks

I believe that the reason why there're so many different offers in the hi-fi world is not because a lot of different sources exist, but because they all sound differently (let alone the price range) and everybody like something different.
But, as a matter of fact, the best reproduction system is the one most closely approaching the "20-20,000 Hz +/- 0 dB; 0% distortion; no phase rotation; no phase cancellation; infinite impulsive power" paradigm.

Apart from this, we tend to buy the sound we like best and - in hi-fi as well - all ears are different

I guess that make sense... Fractal is working on something, we will see if they are able to get an FRFR speaker that stand out in terms of afinity with modelers.

Cheers

AFAIK, also both Jay Mitchell and Matrix have produced their own FRFR... or are about to release them. Matrix's ones are already out.

OTOH, the affinity with a modeller is not an issue: an FRFR cab must sound good, and exhibit enough continuous and impulsive power: then it's good for any purpose!