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4. Re: Olympus LS-14 initial thoughts

Subject: 4. Re: Olympus LS-14 initial thoughts
From: "Raimund" animalsounds
Date: Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:01 am ((PST))
michael trommer  wrote:

> Hi all =AD just thought I=B9d chime in on this one:
>
> There is definitely a benefit to higher sample rates when recording some
> sources =AD many dolphins, for example, communicate at frequencies that w=
on=B9t
> even register @ a 44kHz/16 bit sample rate. I have 1st hand experience of
> this recording pink dolphins in the amazon =AD there were several of us u=
sing
> more or less comparable equipment, and when doing a spectographic
> comparison you could clearly see that those recording at 96/24 were
> capturing a lot of activity in the upper frequency ranges that the rest o=
f
> us weren=B9t. Of course, you couldn=B9t hear it unless it was pitched dow=
n, but
> there were some fascinating sounds...

This is of course true. But we talked here about human perception...

There are even river dolphin species whose click sounds are entirely above =
100 kHz! See for instance http://www.avisoft.com/userreports

Regards,
Raimund









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