Kemper Amps Forum

I have ordered a Kemper and am waiting patiently for it to be approved in Canada. When looking at the device the only thing that weirded me out was its consumer grade input and output with spdif. What is the reason for this? 96k is getting very very common for recording, making the digital not compatible with a lot of peoples sessions in their DAWs. My computer is 5 years old so I still with 48k usually but come Jan I will have a new one and will want to use 96k. This will mean I will have to use the analog ins and outs of the Kemper. This is acceptable but I would much prefer to use the digital.

Anyways. I'm just curious as to why Kemper went with spdif. The digital would really only be used in Studio situations and most of these people have AES (not spdif) and like to record at 96k.

So Kemper.... Why?

EDIT: one more question. Why can it only be master and not slave in digital? Very weird.

I did search. there are a billion threads on digital so I am having trouble finding a reply from Mr. Kemper.

Dom

Ah I see. How would it not improve quality? I'm more thinking about the re-amping. Going from sound card to Kemper and back again without using digital is 4 stages of conversion. Seems like there would be a bit of degradation especially with the average users sound card. If my session is at 96k I would have no choice but to use analog for the re-amping.

Also the 96k would only be Digital to Digital conversion. Is that not much cheaper than A/D?

Right now all the digital in/outs in the the box are 24/44.1. So by sample rate converter you mean something that takes that 24/44.1 and converts it to 96k. I could see how this would not better the quality since it is taking a lower rate and "faking" the higher rate. I presume this is what you mean?

So the only solution would be to have the entire box at 96k? And that is to expensive? And would not be better sound quality at all?

Also curious why the Kemper can only be a master and not slave?

Thanks for replying to my uneducated questions. Much appreciated! I am waiting with great anticipation for the CSA approval so I can finally get mine here in Canada.
Dominic