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  1. (abbreviation of high-fidelity) the faithful
  2. reproduction of sound from a machine that
  3. plays recorded music or speech. A typical
  4. hi-fi system includes a turntable for playing
  5. vinyl records, a cassette tape deck to play
  6. magnetic tape recordings, a tuner to pick up
  7. radio broadcasts, an amplifier to serve all
  8. the equipment, possibly a compact-disc
  9. player, and two or more loudspeakers.
  10. Advances in mechanical equipment and
  11. electronics, such as digital recording
  12. techniques and compact discs, have made it
  13. possible to eliminate many distortions in
  14. sound-reproduction processes.
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