Well sure. You're fully invested into this unit. I've been with it since the beginning of the axe fx 2 and have decided to sell everything and go back to a traditional rig. This thing is great but it's never going to be 100% and to some of us it's important.
I'm glad there are people who are happy because it means I will likely find a buyer sooner.
You are certainly entitled to your opinion but your statement that "this thing is great but it's never going to be 100%..." seems to go beyond opinion into the realm of bias ...well lets just say it, bullshit. 100% percent of what? I recently played a "100%" tube amp at a gig and, in my opinion, it sucked compared to the axe. Frankly, it sucked compared to any amp. So, if you are saying that the Axefx2 is not 100% like that marshall piece of shit I had to play through recently, then you are correct. The axe is light years ahead of it in terms of what makes a great "100%" tube amp if that amp is you standard. I recently bought an ac15 to compare with the axe. The ac15 is now gone because the axefx2 was absolutely as good. It could do anything that ac15 could do, and then some. I have an old hand wired and tuned marshall and I can tell you that the axe is in the same ball park with this amp. I played many tube amps that I would place under the axe fx2.
By the way, I built that marshall over a period of years. It has had a number of different transformers and other little tweaks that made it better and better. I have a friend who bought a reissue bassman; sounded pretty good until you compared it to a real 59 bassman. It took some interesting tweaks to get reissue into that '59 territory. Good can get better. Great can be greater.
If it was all about hype and money and your typical bullshit then I would imagine Fractal would simply issue the latest greatest versions each year in the form of a new model instead of giving it away for free. Or at least sell the new firmware; you know they could do that. But they don't. So much for the marketing hype.
I believe the evidence shows that Fractal is about creating a product that transcends expectations and exemplifies excellence. Money and marketing are simply necessary evils that make it possible to keep our passions moving forward and keeps a business in business. Its a character thing.
To say that the AxeFx will never be "100%" is a statement rooted in emotionalism, void of empirical data, and therefor means 100% nothing at all.
In my opinion and with all due respect...
