Fender SuperSonic 22 heads down to £649 at GAK...

StefB

...not selling I wonder?

http://www.gak.co.uk/en/fender-super-sonic-22-head-black/75805

ICBM

Still sounds like quite a lot for an amp of only 22W that looks cheap, isn't all that well-built and has known reliability issues.

The original price was laughable.

meltedbuzzbox

ICBM said:

Still sounds like quite a lot for an amp of only 22W that looks cheap, isn't all that well-built and has known reliability issues.

The original price was laughable.

you will be ordering one then?

Babones

The pedal that comes with it is ridiculous. They should have designed a single switch pedal for those who would only use the channel switching i.e. leave the fat on or off, the reverb on or off and don't use the fx loop.

Blueingreen

Interesting comments.  I've been looking at these and wondering if they made more sense than splashing out boutique money, but the reliability issues put me right off.  What would people suggest as an alternative, portable, Fender-style head?  The DRRI heads also look a bit overpriced.

jpfamps

I've only seen problems with the 60W version of this amp, which is due to the close proximity of the power valve screen supply PCB trace to the zener diodes that regulate the LT supply for channel switching etc.

The zener diodes get hot (not helped by UK amps running hotter than spec due to being wired to EU mains voltage) and this aids arcing from the screen grid trace.

The 22W version has lower HT than the 60W version, so may not suffer from this problem.

StefB

A lot of them suffer from unbearable popping when switching channels. I had to sell my combo because it was so noticeable and Fender themselves weren't able to fix it under warranty.

chrisj1602

The first reports of the supersonic 22 made me want one so bad, then all I read about was "issues"

monquixote

They have a few issues. 

They pop on channel change (apparently this is by design the Pro Sonic does it as well)

They also have an unusably large foot pedal with features you won't use on it, a stupid footswitch cable which breaks easily and when it does it's really hard to replace and in breaking is likely to short out a blow up a couple of components.

That said they are small, giggable and sound fantastic. There is a reason you see quite a few pedal demos being done with them.

Wazmeister

I had one with no issues whatsoever, and Ive played through a couple live.... Great little amp, good for gigging and stupid cheap money at that price....