"Presumably though the effects of aliasing will also also produce distortions at a smaller scale, which might not be as obvious"
Why? What do you mean? What scale? What do you mean by distortion? The only only only thing sampling does is move frequencies beyond the nyquest frequency into the sampled signal by taking the signal at f, and sending it to f mod f_n where f_n is the nyquist frequency.
Why? What do you mean? What scale? What do you mean by distortion? The only only only thing sampling does is move frequencies beyond the nyquest frequency into the sampled signal by taking the signal at f, and sending it to f mod f_n where f_n is the nyquist frequency.