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Jones-model high-fidelity amplifier (1947)

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The full-range valve amplifier Hedley Jones designed in 1947 to reproduce the whole audio spectrum; the model Tom Wong acquired and christened a 'Sound System', making it a foundational artifact in the birth of Jamaican dance amplification.

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Hedley Jones: The Renaissance Man Who Pioneered Jamaican Soundsystem Culture

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Story · Well supportedThe electronics men and the birth of the sound system

Before there were selectors and deejays, there was the amplifier, and the men who built it.