StephenPG wrote: 
> What are brickwalling artefacts?

A square wave contains a sum of all odd harmonics up to infinity. If you
remove some of the higher ones, the resulting wave is of course not
perfectly square any more - the top will show a "ripple" proportional to
the removed higher harmonics. This is usually referred to as the 'Gibbs
phenomenon ' (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_phenomenon). If the
removed harmonics are higher in frequency than the limit of human
hearing (as usually is the case in digital audio systems), the effect is
purely visual and not audible - another case of the dangers of using
your eyes rather than your ears.



"To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this
fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt
edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953
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