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Sound-system amp building

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The craft trade of designing and hand-building high-power valve amplifiers and speaker cabinets for Jamaican sound systems, established by technicians such as Hedley Jones and carried on by builder-operators including Lloyd Daley and King Tubby.

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Red Bull Music Academy Daily; Sonic Street Technologies; Claymore Sound engineering essays.

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Jamaica is Where Sound Systems Begin: Enter Hedley Jones

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Story · Well supportedThe amp men of Kingston

From a 1947 shop-front amplifier to King Tubby's workshop, engineers built the sound system before anyone sang through it.

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