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[AUDIO ANALYSIS] Sound clues from goodbye.wav

[Daffy889]

Of course, if there were a third man already in the room doing the "old man" voice, then he could also be seated in the center. That would explain why there are only footsteps after the knock, whereas if the old man were the deep voiced officer there should have been footsteps before that.

Oh, and don't say we wouldn't have heard footsteps if it was being picked up by the chatter unit, as in one of the other clips we can hear sirens through Hiro's chatter when they are outside. Though I think whatever we are hearing it through is better quality than the chatter stuff we have heard anyway.

Here are some diagrams of possible layouts if there were three men.

[Corngood]

Wow, audio analysis AND visio charts, this is some thread.

[Zemat]

[SecondSundodger]

[Daffy889]

Yeah, I keep forgetting about that carpet (or rubber flooring). The thing is, the stereo positioning of the clock doesn't move, which makes me think that whatever is picking up the sound isn't moving.

Also, about the strength of the voices, see my layout1 diagram. If the 'speakerphone' and recorder were in the middle of the table (where I have written "we are listening from here"), then with that layout the voices would sound equally strong. We're not listening in surround sound here, so a stereo mic placed left to right in the middle of that table would pick up what we hear in the file.

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