I have had my powered KPA for two months now and am still really digging it. I will soon be living in an apartment out of town for a few months and bought the Kemper for use with headphones, though I have since picked up a Xitone passive 1x12 cab.
I love the KPA through my headphones (Sennheiser HD 280 Pro 64 ohms) as well as through the Xitone cab, but find there's a fairly substantial difference in tone, with the headphones giving more apparent gain and more treble detail than the cab (even with the tweeter on). This coming week, I am hoping to use the KPA to lay down a few lead overdubs in pro-level studio.
So a few questions for those of you with more experience than I:
- Would a different set of cans or different speaker help minimize the difference between the two modalities? If so, which?
- If, as I suspect, the physical properties of sound transmission suggest there will always be a difference between running through headphones and a FRFR speaker, what strategies do you use (short of creating two distinct rigs) to minimize this?
- Where can I expect the signal to come out on this continuum when I connect (as I believe is best) to the studio's deck running Pro Tools through the s/pdif out?
Obviously, I'd love to hear from folks who've worked with these particular units, but am very much open to hearing about how you have minimized similar transition issues.
Thanks for your help!