Nah, I'm OK on that score. We don't have many guns in the UK
I'm interested in broadening my knowledge and conducting tests on quite a few different units (I'm in a position where I can probably rustle up most of the available modellers if I really put some effort in...depends mostly on time), and that would start with at least reproducing the test Cliff did with the Helix to obtain a baseline. I'm also very curious as to what the result would be with a real amp...there won't be any aliasing, but would it show something else?
For what it's worth, I don't believe the Helix or
any of the currently available modellers to be the pinnacle of modelling accuracy. Of course, that's from an academic standpoint; with my guitarist hat on, I actually don't care about any of this. That's because in a live situation, absolutely nobody cares and it's just down to two questions:
1 - Does it sound good?
2 - Does the workflow make my life easier than amp + pedals?
#1 is down to taste, and #2 is personal preference depending on the player's tap-dancing capacity (mine is...limited, to say the least). Any of the current top three modellers (I don't count the Headrush, because it doesn't have much of a pedigree yet) can easily satisfy those requirements for different people...all of them can for some folk, and for others they never will.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that I actually don't care about any modeller's ability to mimic real amps accurately; I just want to know if I can get a good sound out of it that makes me want to play more.
So there you go...that's my own personal context.
Finally...having re-read my initial comments in this thread, I probably came across as rather more combative than I intended. I'm going to put that down to a combination of me being really quite ill at the moment, and the fact that I was born with a love of a good argument. I suppose some folk might go back and edit them to try to strike the right tone, but...that sounds like an awful lot of work for little gain, and I wouldn't want to make anybody change the opinions they've already made of me