Some of the newer phones (Particularly the ones that double as an Mp3 player, Moto Q, Blackjack, Chocolate, EnV, Helio, come to mind) have better output speakers now, so they may be able to do a slightly better job of reproducing the sound. I could hear the tone on my MBP, and I know those are relatively small speakers.
Thing is, some mobile companies (Verizon comes to mind) lock out phone capabilites, including which audio file format can be assigned as ringtones. Most opt for .amr, .awb, or .mmf, .3gp, or some variant based on the 3GPP spec. I bet a lot of people are going spend $2.50, get a compressed 8khz file like this, and have some distorted gurggle that everyone's going to hear.
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Date: 2007-01-02 11:31 pm (UTC)Thing is, some mobile companies (Verizon comes to mind) lock out phone capabilites, including which audio file format can be assigned as ringtones. Most opt for .amr, .awb, or .mmf, .3gp, or some variant based on the 3GPP spec. I bet a lot of people are going spend $2.50, get a compressed 8khz file like this, and have some distorted gurggle that everyone's going to hear.
Kind of an amusing way to fuck over people. :)
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Date: 2007-01-03 12:15 am (UTC)Typically the sampling rate, divided by two = bandwidth.
CDs are 44.1Khz, and you can reasonably hear up to about 20Khz. Professional audio houses work at 24bit, 192Khz and the difference is just amazing.