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Acoustic device for discovering the directors' opinion? (8,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sounding board

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'discovering the directors' opinion?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'acoustic device' is the wordplay.
'acoustic' becomes 'sounding' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'device' becomes 'board' (board is a kind of device).
'sounding'+'board'='SOUNDING-BOARD'

'for' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for sounding board that I've seen before include "means of testing idea" , "Means of testing opinion" , "Recipient of experimental ideas perhaps" , "One whose opinion is sought" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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