• FS: Benson 300 amp - as played by Howard Roberts

    From james2n@bellsouth.net@21:1/5 to Peter Grey on Tue Apr 7 15:34:36 2020
    On Monday, October 29, 2001 at 1:12:03 PM UTC-5, Peter Grey wrote:
    For Sale – Benson 300 amp. Howards Roberts made these famous. This amp
    is great for jazz and pretty rare. Completely gone through – new tubes, caps, biased, cleaned and tuned up. 50 watts, brand new Weber CA15
    paper dome speaker. Tolex is ugly but amp works beautifully.
    Everything works but the “fuzz”. I also have a photocopied manual and schematic. For more info on these amps check out: http://www.utstat.toronto.edu/mikevans/hroberts.html $550 plus shipping
    OBO . I’m located in San Francisco. Contact Peter at
    pgrey@earthlink.net or 415-566-7600

    I have a Benson 300H and am in search of sound modules and schematics for them.

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  • From Tim McNamara@21:1/5 to james2n@bellsouth.net on Fri Apr 10 17:06:13 2020
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 15:34:36 -0700 (PDT), james2n@bellsouth.net <james2n@bellsouth.net> wrote:
    On Monday, October 29, 2001 at 1:12:03 PM UTC-5, Peter Grey wrote:
    For Sale – Benson 300 amp. Howards Roberts made these famous.
    This amp is great for jazz and pretty rare. Completely gone through
    – new tubes, caps, biased, cleaned and tuned up. 50 watts, brand
    new Weber CA15 paper dome speaker. Tolex is ugly but amp works
    beautifully. Everything works but the “fuzz”. I also have a
    photocopied manual and schematic. For more info on these amps check
    out: http://www.utstat.toronto.edu/mikevans/hroberts.html $550 plus
    shipping OBO . I’m located in San Francisco. Contact Peter at
    pgrey@earthlink.net or 415-566-7600

    I have a Benson 300H and am in search of sound modules and schematics
    for them.

    Well, since Peter posted his note nearly 19 years ago, I'm not sure
    he'll be able to be helpful. But you never know.

    It's interesting that the link is still active and has some great
    information about Howard Roberts. And some amp schematics:

    http://www.utstat.toronto.edu/mikevans/hroberts/guitars/300HPWR.jpg

    http://www.utstat.utoronto.ca/mikevans/hroberts/guitars/300H400H.jpg


    There may be someone doing someting with Benson amps:

    https://www.bensonamps.com/#thelist

    but no idea if they are at all related to the old ones from decades
    past. Might just be another guy named Benson who makes amps...

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