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2. Public address system - Wikipedia

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   Battery-powered systems can be used by guides who are speaking to clients on walking tours. Public address systems consist of input sources (microphones, sound playback devices, etc.), amplifiers, control and monitoring equipment (e.g., LED indicator lights, VU meters, headphones), and loudspeakers.

3. Radio receiver - Wikipedia

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   A portable battery-powered AM/FM broadcast receiver, used to listen to audio broadcast by local radio stations. A modern communications receiver, used in two-way radio communication stations to talk with remote locations by shortwave radio. Girl listening to vacuum tube console radio in the 1940s.

4. Squelch - Wikipedia

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   Squelch. Look up squelch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In telecommunications, squelch is a circuit function that acts to suppress the audio (or video) output of a receiver in the absence of a strong input signal. [ 1] Essentially, squelch is a specialized type of noise gate designed to suppress weak signals.

5. Companding - Wikipedia

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   Companding. In telecommunication and signal processing, companding (occasionally called compansion) is a method of mitigating the detrimental effects of a channel with limited dynamic range. The name is a portmanteau of the words compressing and expanding, which are the functions of a compander at the transmitting and receiving ends, respectively.

6. The Thing (listening device) - Wikipedia

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   The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945.

7. Wireless microphone - Wikipedia

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   A wireless microphone, or cordless microphone, is a microphone without a physical cable connecting it directly to the sound recording or amplifying equipment with which it is associated. Also known as a radio microphone , it has a small, battery-powered radio transmitter in the microphone body, which transmits the audio signal from the ...

8. Headphones - Wikipedia

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   Headphones connect to a signal source such as an audio amplifier, radio, CD player, portable media player, mobile phone, video game console, or electronic musical instrument, either directly using a cord, or using wireless technology such as Bluetooth, DECT or FM radio.

9. Direct-coupled amplifier - Wikipedia

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   Direct-coupled amplifier. A direct-coupled amplifier[ 1] or DC amplifier is a type of amplifier in which the output of one stage of the amplifier is coupled to the input of the next stage in such a way as to permit signals with zero frequency, also referred to as direct current, to pass from input to output. This is an application of the more ...