This effect is actually often useful in lo-fi music production! Decreasing a sound clip's sampling rate gives an "underwater" feel to sound as high frequencies are cut out.
mkassaian
What gavinmak said is also applicable to real life: when you hear music from another room through a wall or door, it sounds much more bass-y because the higher frequencies don't travel through solid materials like wood as well.
Hexhu
Adding to gavinmak and mkassaian, "low-pass filters" are everywhere in our daily life, since acoustic attenuation is generally proportional to the square of sound frequency.
This effect is actually often useful in lo-fi music production! Decreasing a sound clip's sampling rate gives an "underwater" feel to sound as high frequencies are cut out.
What gavinmak said is also applicable to real life: when you hear music from another room through a wall or door, it sounds much more bass-y because the higher frequencies don't travel through solid materials like wood as well.
Adding to gavinmak and mkassaian, "low-pass filters" are everywhere in our daily life, since acoustic attenuation is generally proportional to the square of sound frequency.