Yamaha designed the model with left-right symmetrical audio circuitry to provide the shortest circuit path for audio signal travel without loss of audio signal purity.

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If things continue down this path, the decline will result in a steady loss of crucial scientific data during a time when, given the range of hard-to-predict effects from a warming atmosphere, it will be needed more than ever.

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