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House of Joy speaker cabinet

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The large speaker-cabinet stack credited to engineer Hedley Jones in late-1940s Kingston, remembered under the name "House of Joy" and regarded as a prototype for the sound-system speaker set. Built to reproduce a full audio spectrum rather than a public-address voice.

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Hedley Jones: The Renaissance Man Who Pioneered Jamaican Soundsystem Culture

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How a wartime radar technician's amplifier and speaker cabinet set the template for sound-system bass.