Benson Monarch Head
$3,378.00
This product is currently sold out.
The Monarch was designed to fulfill the needs of players who:
- Enjoy a Tweed Deluxe but find it could be lacking in punch and versatility
- Enjoy a Top Boost AC15 or 30 but find the upper frequencies a little quacky and grating
- Enjoy a Supro Thunderbolt but want more clarity and better harmonics
- Think some boutique amps they have tried are too bright and/or lacking a certain something…what is it called…tone that satisfies.
Specs
- 2 x JJ 6V6 power tubes, 2 x JJ 12AX7 preamp tubes, customizable rectifier
- 13-18 watts (depending on rectifier)
- Speaker outputs: 1 x 8 ohm, 1 x 16 ohm
Dimensions/weight:
Head 34.29 cm W 20.32 cm H 21cm D 7.25kg
Build
- Point to point construction on terminal strips - no circuit, eyelet or turret board
- Mercury Magnetics transformers
- Carbon Comp resistors
- Jupiter capacitors
- DC filments for low noise
- Dovetailed pine speaker cabinets
- Baltic birch head cabinets
Customizations (selectable on order form)
Rectifier
- 5Y3 13 watts with sag…very compressed and squishy sounding
- 5AR4 16 watts with a little sag…a good compromise
Speaker
- Celestion G12H Well-balanced…a great choice for most Monarchs
- Weber 12A125A Darker, less efficient AlNiCo for a tweed sound