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Amplifiers lifted acoustic sound Eddie Rabbitt supplied principally (6)

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lasers

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'amplifiers' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'lifted acoustic sound eddie rabbitt supplied principally' is the wordplay.
'principally' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letters of 'lifted acoustic sound eddie rabbitt supplied' is 'LASERS'.

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(Other definitions for lasers that I've seen before include "Optical devices" , "Intense beams of light" , "Light beam devices" , "Light amplifications by stimulated emissions of radiation" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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