The Van der Heide way of listening

Hi,

When I started with the audio hobby, 4 years ago, I would never have thought that it would end this way.
My set sounds as natural as can be now, just because some guys here in Holland have developed a way to get the music from it.
One of them, who calls himself B.Gehakt, but whom I know as a real human being, has written an article about the technique, first in Dutch, which is my native language, and now also in English. He asked me to publish it on the AVSForum, which I'm glad to do.

You'll find the English version in the attachment.
For Dutch speakers, here is the link to the Dutch version: http://www.audiofreaks.nl/index.php?...&articleid=206

Have fun,
Marc

 

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Michael, it is no science, just experience. I guess there are about hundred people that have experienced it, and do so daily.
The science behind it might come, or not.
Anyway, experience becomes before the science in most occasions.

Marc

Right. And you know how long it took before they realized and accepted that the earth is round?
My experience tells me that the music industry is still in the Earth is Flat stage.
This new invention tells me otherwise.

Marc

Lovely reading.
It seems to me that most, if not all, audiophiles are just like Roy in the poem.
When someone tells them: here is what you are looking for, it is in yourself, they just won't believe it.
And on and on goes the never ending struggle for the 'real' sound.

I wish them luck.

Marc

I don't like beer at all. Not even Grolsch.

Marc

Of course there is something wrong with me. I love music. That's weird. I love to have the music performed by my set as real as possibly can be. That's very suspicious. I have let undergo my set the 'gehakt' modifications, which makes me nuts altogether. I admit.
Usually, one find such creeps among utterly rich audiophiles, that spend tens of thousands at their gear, break their house to have separate powerlines, buy stuff like PS Audio powerplant, experiment with cables that don't sell under 1000 bucks a meter and so on. Just read Michael Fremer in the June edition of Stereophile. With some luck these high spenders get it right: "The DAC3.5VB trully excelled in two areas: soundstaging and quietness. It produced broad, deep soundstages on which there was great separation between instruments, and the proper perspective of texture between instruments miked closely and those farther off." (Erick lichte on the Bel canto e.One DAC3.5VB & e.One VBSI (about $ 5000 together))

I just have a modest Dacmagic, although one that was modified electrally and given a better powersource (about 700 together), which just does the same. Just imagening things, me.
To have clean power I sprinkled some drops of so called Trollensnot on the powercables entering the house, just to show that I am complete nuts.
Some people that came to listen declared things like "you can walk round the instruments", "The first time streaming convinced me", or "If this set was on a audio-show, no-one would bother to have a look at it, but meanwhile Marc can recreate the rain wood with the baka People, a concert hall with the Concertgebouworkest, or the intimacy of - there you have it - a smoky cafe. With such smooth highs, and a bass that only lacks the lowest organ pipes, and a soundstage that is not altered when he walks through the room"

Yes, definitely there is something wrong with me, not spending thousands and thousands. Thinking that this invention might shed some light on the ongoing search for better, truer music reproduction, which everyone in the audio-industry is looking after, and does not know where to look for it.

Yes, I am complete nuts. To speak with Sam tellig: I laugh my evil laugh.
And I leave you with a quote from him "We measure not what we hear, which it what counts, but what we can."

M rc

I started to take music reproduction seriously only some years ago. So, my subscription with stereophile is only 2 years old. I love to read this magazine, especially with the knowledge I have now about music reproduction. It's great fun.
Regarding the article, I can't tell it better than that. Of course I know more about the way it works than is given by the article, but you wouldn't believe it.

I can imagize that anything related to this matter is hardly believable. It still puzzles me. The only way to get over it, would be, to hear it. At least, that is what I did. I went to 4 or 5 people with a modified set, and I heard 4 or 5 different sets, with their own characteristics, but also what popped up as the unified character. The ability to, so to say, give one the impression that you were there at the recording venue.
That was just what I was after, when I started to upgrade my humble, mediocre set.
So, I tried to get the modifications for myself, which proved to be easy. The way it is done is still in a experimental phase, but I regard this experiment as one of the best things I have encountered in 40 years of music reproduction.
Sorry, there is no science involved, it's all just done by trying, failing, and succeeding.
Eventually, some natural and technical explanation will be developed, but not by me.

If someone is willing to come to Leiden, he might hear what I'm talking about.

Marc