I love how the audio quality symbolises our struggle to understand the faint and distant voice of the historical past. To futher enhance this magical effect you're going to have to move the microphone further away from the speaker. Sorry to report that I could actually hear some of that. No complete sentences of course, just the odd word here and there.
I love these lectures but I dearly wish that whoever records them would attempt to get better audio quality. Ambient recording from a seat at the back of the auditorium is extremely problematic for the youtube listener.
Well said, bubbahanks. You wonder why they take such care setting up the video only to position the mic where it picks up so much room ambience. They could have run a direct feed from the speaker's mic to a recorder running in synch with the camera, or directly to the camera audio itself. Either would have added clarity to the foreign speaker's already problematic accent. Nevertheless, I am grateful to Penn Museum for giving us this series.
a fascinating topic but ruined by the audio-visual dept., who apparently provided a separate mic for the speaker's enemies to hawk, gag and choke into and so, drown him out.
Very interesting talk but the audio quality is very poor and with the further distraction of constant audience noise (when they're not coughing they murmur incessantly) it is very hard work to follow. You hear every second word and it takes processing time to fill in the blanks by which time you've missed something else. Also the slides are too small to see properly and not perfectly focused- there is a map on screen but it's too small to see and you can hardly hear what the speaker is saying anyway and then another cough, murmur, scrape, bang. It's quite painful if you are trying to follow it properly, very frustrating.
PLEASE! PENN invite this man back and this time get the sound right! What a total f-up! Also, the subtitles are of zero help. For example when he mentions the "Hatti" and the subtitles render, "the Patty." Good Grief. You blew it, fix it please.
+Discovios What BS is that. Wilussa is the name the Hittitian gave them While Illion is the core of Troy, and what Illion mean and whats the base of it???? Illi-on ,,,,W-il-usa the base is IL means Star. This is how the Dardani called their city Illion and -on- is an Illyrian extension. On a side note there is no distinguish between those that lived and fought the Troyan war m they spoke the same language in dialects and were of the same branch. Greeks???? there were none of them at the time nor they existed for centuries after. Homer never mentions the word although he compiled the bards songs around 500 years later. This is how people get lost in history by takin a term here another there within a difference of a thousand years.
+Discovios Ther was no Mycenaean Age, its was called Bronze Age. The Mycenaean organized a coalition to take over the mines held by Teukri and Dardani (allies of Hittite). By that time the recognizable powers were Hittite and Egyptians, a rising Mycenaean and Assyrians in decline. BY the way how could you call Ionians as greeks???? are you serious??? Go learn the 4 migrations waves and their dates and after that please find the date WHEN and from WHERE there name Greek comes from.
If you think Ionians were not Greeks then you must be studying the wrong subject. Ionians were Greeks. The Eastern people like Persians, Assyrians, Arabs and Judaens call us us Yunan (Ionians) till this day. Are you Albanian?
+Discovios So far you are jumping from one subject to another and certainly trying to play a dirty ball. Its is a mistake considering ethno groups like Aetolians, Acheans, Dori, Ioni as Greeks considering the simple fact that the name Greek was never mentioned or attributed to them. Not even in the Troy war the name Greek appears, and the lyric has been put together centuries after. Even in the Peloponnese war the Spartan and Athenian they did not considered them selves Greeks altho they were Dori. There is no point having any ethno group being called Greek just because they lived in a land that today is named Greece. Dont forget 200 years ago considering the Veneti and Ottoman maps, Greece was 5 time smaller and those were real borders not those granted in paper.
I am 81 and hear perfectly well the speaker. but unfortunaletely I also hear perfectly well the coughing persons. If I were them, I would have gone home in order not to importunate the other spectators. this is a question of education. Dont' do unto others what you wouldn't like them to do unto you ! And I am a full atheist !
A professor trying to decipher a quite easy name ALEXANDER known as son of god where is mother claims Zeus visited here in a dream. ALEXANDER - Born in a dream. A- LE - X-ANDER m by only using simple albanian language LE-born , X-strong h, ANDER - dream. Another ref the sister of Hector named KASANDER - which we known she was a priest having dreams /visions. translated easily KA=have , ANDER=dream m the S+A=some , she- have -dreams/visions. Paris name was Aleksandu. As u can see its not a name but a title given,,,its a status. it has been used for a single person or a city name,
Free Is this what albanian nationalists tell you nowadays? How sad. Of course it's the same everywhere. But the world would expect from someone with the nickname "free" to have the decency to question such poor propaganda especially when it seems it's the only thing you've ever learned..
I enjoy these lectures, what I can hear of them! Please try to improve the audio, especially the volume, for future ones.
Wish it could be remastered so the audio can heard clearly.
I love how the audio quality symbolises our struggle to understand the faint and distant voice of the historical past. To futher enhance this magical effect you're going to have to move the microphone further away from the speaker. Sorry to report that I could actually hear some of that. No complete sentences of course, just the odd word here and there.
For God's sake, TURN ON the damn microphone, Penn State!
The poor sound quality makes this video a waste of time.
silent film is probably not the best medium for a lecture.
Nieimeiers mic needs to be fixed ! Terrible acoustics ,which is a shame !
I love these lectures but I dearly wish that whoever records them would attempt to get better audio quality. Ambient recording from a seat at the back of the auditorium is extremely problematic for the youtube listener.
Well said, bubbahanks. You wonder why they take such care setting up the video only to position the mic where it picks up so much room ambience. They could have run a direct feed from the speaker's mic to a recorder running in synch with the camera, or directly to the camera audio itself. Either would have added clarity to the foreign speaker's already problematic accent. Nevertheless, I am grateful to Penn Museum for giving us this series.
the sound is so bad on this I don't know where to begin 😠
a fascinating topic but ruined by the audio-visual dept., who apparently provided a separate mic for the speaker's enemies to hawk, gag and choke into and so, drown him out.
While Bronze Age films were silent, this is supposed to be a retrospective
I like most of your videos, but sound is way too low for us older people.
Poor audio. Would have enjoyed this :-)
Very interesting talk but the audio quality is very poor and with the further distraction of constant audience noise (when they're not coughing they murmur incessantly) it is very hard work to follow. You hear every second word and it takes processing time to fill in the blanks by which time you've missed something else. Also the slides are too small to see properly and not perfectly focused- there is a map on screen but it's too small to see and you can hardly hear what the speaker is saying anyway and then another cough, murmur, scrape, bang. It's quite painful if you are trying to follow it properly, very frustrating.
If you mute your left speaker it sounds way better.
This is a legitimately important lecture destroyed by the idiotic way the sound was handled. Captions help a little bit -- but they're full of errors.
why even post this?
Terrible audio.
I have this on max sound, and I can't understand the speaker.
Cant hear a dmn thing!
PLEASE! PENN invite this man back and this time get the sound right! What a total f-up! Also, the subtitles are of zero help. For example when he mentions the "Hatti" and the subtitles render, "the Patty." Good Grief. You blew it, fix it please.
Had to turn the volume of my game down to 1% to listen to this, Le Sigh. maybe some post-processing?
The sound is awful.
Too bad the sound is so dreadful.
TURN ON MIC !!!!!!
The volume of the speaker is horrible I agree with the last comment
Poor sound or poor sound from zoom call is unwatchable. Put two and two together and realize that humans listen to talks. Waste of time.
Sound is shocking, why even post this?
Between the poor audio and incessant coughing I gave up on this. Such a shame.
Very poor audio.
Wilusa became Ilion on Ionic Greek. Dont forget that the Ionian Greeks had by then 800 BC lost digamma which is like a WV as in German W.
+Discovios What BS is that. Wilussa is the name the Hittitian gave them While Illion is the core of Troy, and what Illion mean and whats the base of it???? Illi-on ,,,,W-il-usa the base is IL means Star. This is how the Dardani called their city Illion and -on- is an Illyrian extension. On a side note there is no distinguish between those that lived and fought the Troyan war m they spoke the same language in dialects and were of the same branch. Greeks???? there were none of them at the time nor they existed for centuries after. Homer never mentions the word although he compiled the bards songs around 500 years later. This is how people get lost in history by takin a term here another there within a difference of a thousand years.
Obviously you havent heard of the Mycenean age. You dont know of Ventris. You have no idea of digamma. You are not well read.
+Discovios Ther was no Mycenaean Age, its was called Bronze Age. The Mycenaean organized a coalition to take over the mines held by Teukri and Dardani (allies of Hittite). By that time the recognizable powers were Hittite and Egyptians, a rising Mycenaean and Assyrians in decline.
BY the way how could you call Ionians as greeks???? are you serious??? Go learn the 4 migrations waves and their dates and after that please find the date WHEN and from WHERE there name Greek comes from.
If you think Ionians were not Greeks then you must be studying the wrong subject. Ionians were Greeks. The Eastern people like Persians, Assyrians, Arabs and Judaens call us us Yunan (Ionians) till this day. Are you Albanian?
+Discovios So far you are jumping from one subject to another and certainly trying to play a dirty ball. Its is a mistake considering ethno groups like Aetolians, Acheans, Dori, Ioni as Greeks considering the simple fact that the name Greek was never mentioned or attributed to them. Not even in the Troy war the name Greek appears, and the lyric has been put together centuries after. Even in the Peloponnese war the Spartan and Athenian they did not considered them selves Greeks altho they were Dori.
There is no point having any ethno group being called Greek just because they lived in a land that today is named Greece. Dont forget 200 years ago considering the Veneti and Ottoman maps, Greece was 5 time smaller and those were real borders not those granted in paper.
Does the sound quality ever improve ?
Nope.
Your tin can needs a new string.
Fix the audio!
Can't hear😭😭😭😭😬
Those bronze age microphones!!
I am 81 and hear perfectly well the speaker. but unfortunaletely I also hear perfectly well the coughing persons. If I were them, I would have gone home in order not to importunate the other spectators. this is a question of education. Dont' do unto others what you wouldn't like them to do unto you ! And I am a full atheist !
Waste no sound !
raw data , the captions are fun ,funny
Sadly, sound is unbearable
AUDIO MEDIOCRE, CONTRIBUTO INDEGNO DI ATTENZIONE .
TH-cam has changed the search engine is now controlled ......... no fun anymore ! TH-cam is dead to me...........sad !
STOP COUGHING!!
This was the worst mime performance I've ever seen.
Great lecture,,, too bad it is in English, now most people won't understand it, why not in German?
Because he's giving the lecture at the penn museum in the USA, maybe? duhgghghghddderrrp
+Wim V (ilGatoNero) ha ha
enjoy the pictures ,each worth 1000 words. try eric klein
shit audio
What a waste
A professor trying to decipher a quite easy name ALEXANDER known as son of god where is mother claims Zeus visited here in a dream. ALEXANDER - Born in a dream. A- LE - X-ANDER m by only using simple albanian language LE-born , X-strong h, ANDER - dream.
Another ref the sister of Hector named KASANDER - which we known she was a priest having dreams /visions. translated easily KA=have , ANDER=dream m the S+A=some , she- have -dreams/visions. Paris name was Aleksandu. As u can see its not a name but a title given,,,its a status.
it has been used for a single person or a city name,
Free Is this what albanian nationalists tell you nowadays? How sad. Of course it's the same everywhere. But the world would expect from someone with the nickname "free" to have the decency to question such poor propaganda especially when it seems it's the only thing you've ever learned..
Bats&Spiders,Sweety what you talking about idiot?
@@batsspiderssweety3784 These topics are overrun by imbecilic albanians nowadays.
what a boring speaker
so boring lecturing monotone God.............