ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Audible artifact

Okay kiddo, have you ever heard a weird noise while listening to music or a podcast? That weird noise is called an audible artifact.

Now, let me explain what that means. When you listen to something, like music or someone talking, your ears pick up the sound waves and send them to your brain, which interprets them as what you're hearing. But sometimes, those sound waves can get messed up on their way to your ears. It's like when you're trying to catch a ball, but it bounces off your hand and goes in a different direction than you were expecting.

When sound waves get messed up like that, you might hear a sound that's different from what you were supposed to hear. That's an audible artifact. It could sound like a crackling noise, a weird echo, or some other kind of distortion.

Audible artifacts can happen for lots of reasons. Maybe there's something wrong with the equipment that's making the sound, or maybe there's some interference in the air that's messing up the sound waves. Sometimes, even just playing the sound too loudly can cause audible artifacts.

So there you have it! Audible artifacts are just weird sounds that can happen when you're listening to something, and they can happen for lots of different reasons.