Power Amp

    I'm getting ready to buy a Kemper and was wondering if a A/B power amp your typical PA amp would work well as a power amp? I know a tube power amp would be more suitable but I want to purchase a amp that I can use for other things. Thinking of getting a small crown power amp. Thanks for any input.

    Could talk a lot of bla, but it's all in the forum. To make it short: My personal conclusion is that Kempers own powered rack is the best way to go. P.A. amps color the sound too much, tube power amps reduce the Kemper to a preamp, built in 3rd party amps can't use the power amp boost. Go with the solution Kemper offers to you for maximum compatibility.

    I too would not recommend a guitar tube amp, because they are not linear enough. It's not the technology, is the design.
    OTOH, a linear tube amp of adequate power would cost more than the Profiler itself... ;)


    As for the boost, it of course depends on how much power you need. I'm not missing it at all.

    The power amp boost is related to the specific amp that's in the active Profilers. To ensure a (very) healthy, clean headroom, the output at maximum isn't actually the full 300/600* Watts (*depending on the impedance of the speaker). The power amp boost is there if you desire more volume (eg with a speaker with a lower sensitivity) and don't mind eating in to that headroom (on medium to high gain settings for example, where the signal becomes naturally compressed by nature).


    Cheers,
    Sam