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I'm not a fan of Steve Howe or his music. His endorsement doesn't mean much to me. Neal Schon and Alex Lifeson on the other hand, well, Rush and Journey are two of my favorite bands and legendary in their own right. Their endorsements do mean something to me. Are you suggesting that neither one can tell the difference between a real tube amp and a mediocre imitation? Further, are you implying that an engineer of Jack Douglas' caliber wouldn't figuratively know the difference between real sugar and a sugar substitute? Very few people would seriously suggest Jack Douglas can't tell the difference. He didn't get to where he is because he has a tin ear.If endorsements were irrelevant, neither Kemper or Fractal Audio would bother listing high profile engineers, bands, and artists that use their gear.
Which test?
There are no amp models in the Axe labeled Bogner, XTC, or JCM800.
Do you have a more plausible explanation as to how the amp models were created? It's like asking, how do we know the amps Kemper claims to have profiled in their videos were even connected to the Kemper and not the amp when they demo'd the supposed profile? Were you there? Did you personally see them connect the guitar to the Kemper? Ever heard of Occam's Razor?
Yes,, I've heard of Occam's razor, first time I've heard it was from one of my professors in college kept repeating it in a class I took.
My simple explanation to how Line 6 and Fractal modeled their amps is simply used Paper schematics as no one can verify that these amps even existed as no one saw them. Regarding kemper testing, there are too many professionals in countless video testing the accuracy in the profiling sessions and those amps were definitively connected to the Kemper because
1- Kemper cannot buy the silence of so many professionals , not even governments or Mafia can enforce the silence of so many people, you can also add those who bought it and non claimed they couldn't profile their amps (KPA is accurately profiling a modeler, is practically the subject of this thread and Kemper Amps, didn't pay deadpan any extra for his public testing, )
2- I myself tested when I profiled my amp, on some profiles there was a slight difference in the low frequency that I usually manged to resolve with refining to get identical results.
I also agree with your answer that there's no Bognar or JCM800 in the AXE II (o r any real amps for that matter) because schematics don't count as real.