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audio equipment  

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  • Audio equipment includes the material devices involved in the processes of recording, processing, diffusing, and reproducing sounds and music. Developed after the invention of sound recording in 1877, 20th-century audio equipment has proliferated in many societal contexts in the form of a wide variety of devices such as microphones, recorders, players, mixers, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and sound editors. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage; Audio Equipment]

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