Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler saw an article about the loudest sound..

makes me think of HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy - Disaster Area.

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Disaster_Area

Regular concert goers judged that the best sound balance was usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles away from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves played their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stayed in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.