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Mini-Stories: Volume 15

99% Invisible

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Is It the Resonant Frequency of a Hard Drive?

The amount of bass you would need to break a laptop sitting next to it would be way beyond the capability of like a 2005 era laptop. Reformation has that frequency buried in there? Yep. It is not buried. It's these couple of sustained piercing synthesizer notes. And this third sustained one is at right about 2000 Hertz, which if that was the resonant frequency of that one particular hard drive, it happens enough in the song where it could knock it out of whack.

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