Scored a SilverTone 1466!

[daveobieone]

That was my first bass amp,got it in 1968, it came with the matching 1x15 cabinet and the head would fit in the bottom of the cabinet to ease transport .It was made by DanElectro and sold by Sears. It is 30 watts rms .

I believe you may have the 1466 confused with the 1463. At first glance, they look VERY similar...an easy mistake.
Silvertone World - Amplifiers - 1960s - Model 1485

The 1466 has Six 10 inch Jensen speakers (which seem to be in very high demand these days), and a
"150 watt" head. In reality, it's likely that the head would do 50-70 watts into a low Z load.
Silvertone World - Amplifiers - 1960s - Model 1466

It's funny how ahead of it's time the 6x10 1466 really was. Seems like half of the bass amps sold 20 years later had mostly 10 inch speakers.

 

[jim nolte]

I believe you may have the 1466 confused with the 1463. At first glance, they look VERY similar...an easy mistake.
Silvertone World - Amplifiers - 1960s - Model 1485

The 1466 has Six 10 inch Jensen speakers (which seem to be in very high demand these days), and a
"150 watt" head. In reality, it's likely that the head would do 50-70 watts into a low Z load.
Silvertone World - Amplifiers - 1960s - Model 1466

It's funny how ahead of it's time the 6x10 1466 really was. Seems like half of the bass amps sold 20 years later had mostly 10 inch speakers.

Yeah I didn't even know about the bigger version,I was just going on what the head looks like which is identical to the one I had,150 watts was a lot back then!

 

[daveobieone]

I believe you may have the 1466 confused with the 1463. At first glance, they look VERY similar...an easy mistake.
Silvertone World - Amplifiers - 1960s - Model 1485

The 1466 has Six 10 inch Jensen speakers (which seem to be in very high demand these days), and a
"150 watt" head. In reality, it's likely that the head would do 50-70 watts into a low Z load.
Silvertone World - Amplifiers - 1960s - Model 1466

It's funny how ahead of it's time the 6x10 1466 really was. Seems like half of the bass amps sold 20 years later had mostly 10 inch speakers.

Actually, I just looked at the schematic from Sears. They rated the 1466 at 100 watts into the 5.3 ohm load it was facing with the 6x10 inch 8 ohm speakers. This in spite of the "150 watts" advertised. I'd love to get my hands one one just to put it on my bench, and see if it really made that much power. That's asking quite a lot out of a pair of 2n3055 output transistors. Kustom used 4 of the same transistors, and rated their "200 watt" amps at 100 watts RMS into 4 ohms.

It's no wonder I blew-up so many output transistors in my 1466!

Dave O.

 

[BassGreaser]

Just an update..I sold the 1466. Never did feel safe enough to play it.

Currently looking for another one to run with a BFM Jack 12.