There is something so rewarding about getting my weekly fill of Hans. Especially in episodes like this where it isn’t just a review of a piece of hardware but general audio knowledge. So valuable for us all to have!
Hans there are very few people I can trust with reviews or for knowledge. You are in the Top 3. I wish I had a teacher like you in my early days. You are brilliant. Cheers to you .
Good Day Hans...I'm 68 and I just wanted to reach out and say "THANKS" for sharing you Vast Knowledge as well as your Life experiences...Very enjoyable
Hans with great 1970's hair at 04:25! Sorry - I couldn't resist that ;-) Thanks for another excellent video with interesting observations and insights. Looking forward to pt 2.
Dankjewel Hans, we maken ook RU-vid filmpjes and zijn in Utrecht. We wilden zeggen dat we enorm respect voor je en jouw kanaal hebben. Namaste! 🙏🏾🙏🏾 Groeten, Rohan
This is a great video, Hans. It delves into an area of the hobby that few have ever discussed. The ability of the individual to learn to hear. To develop hearing that is trained for the hobby. The human body and its senses are amazing. The blind can adapt to losing their sight by hyper developing touch and hearing. A q&a worker at a factory can spot a defect in a product while thousands of units past by them at speed. A lady runner can detect a threat from a developed situational awareness. A hunter can detect deer nearby from years of experience. There are those in the hobby who ridicule others who say they hear things they dont. The book “The Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell discusses how the Beatles, Michael Jordan, Bill Gates and the like developed amazing skills simply from constant repetition. There are really people out there who have done more, focused more and worked more to develop their senses. There is no doubt that exceptional abilities can be developed. However, the chances one can become an Olympic swimmer simply competing in local races is slim. Youve got to expose yourself to ever higher levels of competitors to get to a world class level. Same goes for the hobby.
Man, I love your channel. 🎉🎉❤🎉🎉......... High-school was not for me either. I sang Choir and Oprea taught my self 8 instruments during those 4 years........ lol 😂.
When we were young we had a portable cassette Deck listened to music like that. Then at school bought 45rpm pop singles on record deck sounds ok. then going to work saving for a better system sounds better, then over the years have changed amps cd players cables, it gets better and better you can enjoy the music more, certain sounds you didnt notice before are brought forward to the speakers great.
When younger, I could hear the 19 khz carrier in FM radio. Now, at 68, I still have decent HF sensitivity, (last time I checked, I could detect up to about 14khz. I can hear sounds that other people don't. But my fine discrimination is somewhat lacking now, I get a certain amount of well, smear, listening to music. I'm still pretty lucky.
I am not a true audiophile but have a pretty good system. But I like to make the analogy to photography and how you can look at a photo in different ways. What to an untrained eye looks like a good print/photo, can to me be awful because I can discern color balance, contrast and how to compose a good photo. I think of music/sound quality in the same way. The untrained ear versus the trained audiophile ear...
What do you consider to be an audiophile? According the the meaning f the word it is someone that loves sound. I think you fall into that category. As I said in the video, you don't NEED to know all I am telling. It can be an extra dimension to those that are interested but it is no need for enjoying music.
@@TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel I guess I used the term incorrectly but what I meant by "true" audiophile is that I do not listen to and enjoy music as much as I used to, nor have I rearranged my living room to be the best it can be as a listening space. It's rather a balance with what the wife wants these days 😄 Also my system is more of a 4K system and not a 40K system 🙂
I Always enjoy your videos Hans, Thankyou. There’s a lot of strange stuff that goes on in a room. I’ve recently noticed sitting on my leather Chesterfield sounds different to my armchair and I cannot work out why, it’s mainly the bass that sounds different.
If they are at different spots in the room (you didn't change tone for the other), you hear the effect of room modes for the effect differs throughout the room.
You make many valid points - as always Hans. As a classically trained -amateur - violinist the natural sound of my system is key. 2 areas you mention in your reviews I am curious about: 1) sibilance- which you even detect with the Denafrips Terminator Plus. How did you hear this? 2) you mentioned the steep filter required with 44.1KHz sampled source material which gives audible effects in the normal audio range: how does this manifest itself? Thank you:-)
1) Sibilance problems are best heard in S-sounds in vocals. 2) poor steep reconstruction filters can give all kinds of effects. In general, think back to the early cd -players. Next to jitter they had poor filters.Listen to the right hand of a piano solo. If it has poor transients, if the sones 'hang', that is one of the artefacts of poor filters. But also strange colouration in the mid range and many others. It impacts resolution, the quality of bass lines and so on.
Hey Hans. I'm a big fan of our videos. And today I have the good surprise to know that your first loudspeakers are (almost) the same as mine :) I still have my Philips 22RH427, and would be very interested in having your opinion on these ? They still make me happy, but maybe it is the lack of comparison...
Did you just tell me to " tune in, turn on and drop out"? Seriously, prepubescent music education is essential to our cultural development. I was lucky to have a great music teacher who made us study peter and the wolf, listen and identify and learn to create. I'm not a great musician but at least I was made to listen.
School support and basic musical activities are an important factor. If you add a favorable environment and parents and friends listening and playing music the desire to engage in musical activities will grow. This musical "environment" is very strong in some societies and cultures, less so in others, but it is always there. It's part of human nature.
Did you say that a Revox A77 is not a proper piece of stereo equipment, or did you mean to say you still missed good speakers with it to hear its quality?
The term audiophile is a dirty word, and implies bias and snobbery. I prefer to think of a good listener as informed and critical. Emotion vs logic. Kirk or Spock.
Semantics is about the meaning that you choose to allocate to a signifier. "Audiophilia" means "love of sound". And this "audiophilia" is present in people who listen "analytically" as well as in those whose listening is more "holistic". In our variegated and kalaesdocopic world different positions naturally coexist. "Critical listening" is part of the world of audiophilia, but not the only one. It should not claim to exclude other manifestations of it.
