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Brick-wall filter

Imagine you have a pile of different shaped and sized toys, and your mom tells you that you can only play with the ones that are shaped like blocks. A brick-wall filter is like a toy sorter for sounds. It only lets through sounds that are at a specific frequency and blocks all the other sounds.

Think of sound like the different sized toys, and the filter would be like a machine that sorts the toys, only allowing the block-shaped ones through. The filter only passes the sounds that are within its set frequency range and blocks out all other sounds.

When you listen to music, some sounds may interfere with the quality of the sound you want to hear. This can make the music sound muffled or unclear. The brick-wall filter helps to remove these unwanted sounds and lets you hear the music clearly.

So a brick-wall filter is like a toy sorter that only allows the right type of toys through, and in the case of music, only the right type of sounds.
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