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I wish NOAA had those recordings at real speed instead of sped up 10 times.

Well, how high is the bitrate? If it's high enough, I suppose you can slow it back down 10x without significant loss of quality...



http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/whales/sounds/sound...

Looks like they give a 128kbps wav file. Not exactly audiophile quality unfortunately.


The sample rate is 8kHz, which means the Nyquist frequency is 4kHz. Slowing it back down won't sound good, but frequencies below 400hz will be present.

Here's a 8kHz .wav slowed down to 1/10: http://dump.elektronaut.no/post/ak52_1x.wav

edit: You probably need a subwoofer or a decent pair of headphones to appreciate the rumble.


Awesome, this deep rumble is oddly soothing in my MDR-7506s.




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