Dimiguitar
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For a second, I thought they were making fun of themselves, as if implying there isn't fuck all that's new.
paisleywookiee
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Mongillo19
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More slanted face shape?
Dimiguitar
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Maybe the post is a response to the tonex update. Staying competitive and all..
MirrorProfiles
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Yeah, but do they have angled face shapes?
Chocol8
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So will Fractal or NDSP be the next one to rain on their parade?
Chocol8
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Not yet, but Tonex has more color options and someday Stadium might come in Surf Green.
Richard_G
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I guess quite a few rather strange face shapes might be seen @ Kemper HQ as they realize how far from competitive they’ve become.
This is starting to feel like when Spotify announced Spotify HiFi tier (at an extra cost), but before releasing, Apple released it without an extra cost on Apple Music for all subscribers. Spotify still haven't released a HiFi tier, many years after that whole debacle.
Kemper has made a big fuzz about their new profile engine. Tonex has now beat them with a release (for free without any additional cost or extra hardware to buy). Comical really. The only way they can save this is if it's a substantial sound upgrade over existing Kempers.
Kemper has made a big fuzz about their new profile engine. Tonex has now beat them with a release (for free without any additional cost or extra hardware to buy). Comical really. The only way they can save this is if it's a substantial sound upgrade over existing Kempers.
BenIfin
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Yep. I think ^this^ plus compared to Tonex and NAM.
I have my doubts if they will/can do it (?) .... but I do think C.K is a bit of a Mad Professor who approach's problems in a different way. It would be difficult to bet against him .... but he/they need to deliver on this.
Making it just a bit better than existing MK1 Profiling will be seen by many/most as a "fail".
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texhex
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The reply by the “Top Fan” is priceless.
Is his approach ignoring the market and/or his customers with the ‘I know best’ attitude. Usually seems that way.
I think it will be quite easy to bet against him and a lacklustre software update. Look how much effort went into the hardware update…you really think if they had something interesting coming they’d be talking about the face angle of the toaster?
PorcinePicker
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I don’t wish them any harm…still have my toaster, y’know. But they are stacking up self-owns at a near NDSP rate these days.
paisleywookiee
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It’s not difficult to bet against him. He’s been surpassed. The odds are against him, not with him.
Richard_G
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Yeah. Kemper don't have anything interesting coming. It would be STUPID to not let the world know by now if they did, as competitors are announcing far more promising products. A lot of potential Kemper customers are preordering a Stadium, updating their Tonex setups or exploring NAM. Kemper can't win this with what they have announced for the future.
Dimiguitar
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They did describe the new profiling as super wow, though, with 100k points of stuff, etc. I would have imagined to have seen some sneak peak video by now, considering this, but it's Kemper -- they often work in mysterious ways, for better or worse.
Richard_G
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I see your point. But the changed words in the Kemper marketing after the launch is quite embarrassing, and does not look good for those hoping the MK II would be a vast improvement. If they were confident they actually had something to brag about, I guess they would/should have done so by now.
Did they? They gave a vague sentence and then changed it.
What does 100k points even mean? It sounds like a big number for day to day life but not very large in audio or coding terms
audio is running 44.1k or 48k sample rates per second. 100k is also minimal in data terms. Not exactly earth shattering. I know neither are directly correlated to a Kemper profile, just pointing out that a number without context is meaningless and can either be very big or very small.
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