What's the advantage of the Super Satellite system?

[Zaki]

Hi,

I'm trying to find some info about the Fender Super Satellite System, while fenderrhodes.com is down.
What is the advantage of the Super Satellites?
Are they tube-driven (Fender Twin style) or is it more like the suitcase speakers?
Are they easily modified to be used with a Rhodes without the 4-pin connector?

[james]

The Super Satellites are solid-state like the Suitcase amp, and the master cabinet uses the same multi-pin preamp cable from that era (early 70's...I'm pretty sure it's 5-pin on the piano end and 4-pin on the amp end).  There's no 1/4" input, so you'd need to build your own cable.  You can find the amp schematics in the Service Manual, i.e. once the Super Site is back online....

[Zaki]

Thanks,

I sent a mail to Freddan with some questions as well.

One thing that makes me wonder is, that the guy I may buy these from claims that the amp in the Satellites is only a slave-amp and that you need a pre-amp in front of it. I am almost certain that this setup was not meant to be used with an external pre-amp, so if there is a pre-amp it has to be inside the Rhodes. Did the Stagepianos that had a 4 (or 5?) pin output have a built in pre-amp, or is the amp in the Satellites supposed to be the only amp?

Badrat, you're the admin here, and you are the admin at the supersite as well, right. Don't you have the manual, then? I'd be happy if you could mail it to me. It would probably answer a lot of my questions.

[jupiterjula]

Zaki,

I own a pair of Janus 1 satelite speakers, and they have one master Speaker preamp (each), and a preamp "out to slave" that goes into the slave input on the other speaker.
The salve is used, because your Piano has only one output jack, so you feed one speaker with it, and send the preamp signal to the other speaker.

The other speaker is also independant. This means it`s not only a "salve". Although only one of them has a slave input.


I suppose the Super Satelite speakers should work similar to these.