Benson Chimera w/ Matching Speaker Cabinet 1st Gen / Chad’s Shop Amp / Selectable Power / Early Striped / Blue Mercury Transformers

We are Eclectic Sounds / aka: eclsounds – a store front in Portland, Or. We are open 7 days a week from 11 – 5 PST (by appointment)

Here is a special treat!

Early Chimera w/ 15w – 30w selectable power, 2 big blue mercury transformers in early striped tolex with matching cab.

It was Chad Bensons shop amp and was never meant to be sold.

Overall in excellent condition with no performance issues. Sounds glorious!

This 30 watt head and 1×12 companion speaker cabinet is for players who love the unique tone and bread-and-butter simplicity of the Monarch, but need it in a louder package for the big stage. Like other Bensons, it is fully hand-wired point to point on terminal strips using premium components and transformers.  Instead of the British-American switch, the Chimera has a bass control that takes the differences between the voices of the Monarch and makes them variable.  The tone controls are musical and versatile… it is hard to find a harsh sound!

Specs

• 4 x JJ 6V6, 2 x JJ 12AX7 preamp tubes, 5AR4 rectifier

• 30 watts

• Speaker outputs: 1 x 8 ohm, 1 x 16 ohm

Dimensions/weight

• Head 18.5”W 8”H 8”D 22 lbs

• Cabinet 18.5”W 34”H 10”D 35 lbs

Build

• Point to point construction on terminal strips *no circuit, eyelet or turret board*

• Custom Soursound output transformer

• Mallory 150 capacitors

• Dovetailed pine speaker cabinets

• Baltic birch head cabinet

• Benson Custom Ceramic Speaker

 

( Due to people taking advantage of eBay / Reverb return policies; wanting to “try out and/or pilfer parts”  we can no longer take returns on used gear unless it arrives damaged. Sorry for this inconvenience. We test and guarantee all gear to be 100% working unless stated otherwise )