Benson B700 Tube Bass Head Amplifier Blonde Tolex Purple Grill

High voltage Benson designed tube preamp married to a 700 watt class D output section. Custom Soursound nickel DI transformer. Doesn’t look like a Seinfeld-era squirrel cage. 17 lbs! In 2019, we were contacted by the Messthetics and asked to provide backline for a west coast tour.  Knowing this was the rhythm section of Fugazi backing a wildly cool experimental guitarist (Anthony Pirog) we scrambled to find instruments to loan them…they ended up taking Chris’s personal Monarch and a bass head Chris had stuck together for a bandmate who was looking for a light, good sounding and simple solution…this was called the Sonny, and we sent it with a Benson 15N cabinet. Joe Lally was blown away by the sound and portability, and the fact that it could hang with Brendan Canty…one of rock and roll’s all time hard hitting drummers.  He asked for his own Sonny, but asked us to change the name to the B700.  We decided to make it our new flagship bass amp. Since the original circuit was sort of thrown