I'm never quite sure how to take some of the comments. The same people marvel at the KPA's accuracy while simultaneously talking about how a profile is "thicker and smoother", or earlier the suggestion that the profile sounded "more real". Should the profile not faithfully replicate the source tone, no matter how "unreal" or "thin and jagged" it sounds? If you're suggesting the KPA makes things sound "more real" than they actually are, isn't that an unwitting admission that profiling imposes its own qualities? We can't have it both ways.
The circumstances are a bit different given this is an Axe-FX, not a Marshall. The profile also had multiple gain stages that the KPA struggles with and was tweaked. Regardless, we should be able to approach it with a little intellectual honesty.