I could be wrong, but...

My understanding of sound is that all sound waves follow the "pebble in the pond" model, not just low frequencies. That is to say, they all emanate from a point, and travel spherically outward.

The difference is human ears. Human ears have trouble pinpointing sound generation points in the low frequency bands.

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