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by milesward 2922 days ago
I can personally attest that there is an extreme version of this effect: do not use hard disk in PA/DJ situations... I crashed several of my early disks due reading MP3 data proximal to a certain pair of 18" push-pull PA subwoofers...
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Sounds like the "engineers are retarded" anecdote [1] where on some Apple computers the speaker was located too close to the hard drive, resulting in a crash if you played something too loudly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5d151lqJsA