Sites that sell HiFi, car audio, or home theatre equipment do not belong here. Please see Shopping: Consumer Electronics: Audio.

For entertainment industry equipment sites that sell more than just pro audio (for example pro audio, lighting, and effects) see Shopping: Entertainment: Equipment.

For sites that do not do online sales, see the Business: Industries: Arts and Entertainment: Equipment: Audio category.

For musical instruments and their amplifiers and accessories, see the Shopping: Music: Instruments category.

Submissions to this category should offer online shopping in some form for a range of musical instruments, accessories, and/or recording gear.

Sites that focus on a particular group of instrument should be submitted to a more specific category.

Sites that solely promote brick-and-mortar stores or ship only to limited areas should be submitted to the appropriate category under Regional.

This category is for online lessons or sales only. Sites submitted here for local music instructors will not be reviewed, therefore, please submit them to the appropriate locality in the Regional branch.

Individual artist pages at larger stores, sites consisting mostly of affiliate links, and deeplinks to the store section of mainly informational sites will not be listed here. The main page of larger stores should be submitted to a more general category. The main page of informational sites should be submitted to the appropriate category elsewhere in the directory. This will often be in the Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists tree.