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Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5914 
Encouragement 5913 
The divers testing. 5913 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5912 
Test 5912 
To Wind Up Where? 5912 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5912 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5911 
What Next 5911 
The mid-bass laboratory 5910 
It is a different question. 5910 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5904 
Triangular midbass horns 5904 
Suspending Disbelief 5904 
Some practical strategic considerations 5891 
MB Horns Project 5891 
Another consideration – the cable length 5890 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5890 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5888 
The triangle horns in attic 5888 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5888 
About the triangular horns corners… 5888 
4-sided triangle 5888 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5888 
Bass from behind 5888 
K-Horns 5888 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5888 
The wall-loaded horns? 5888 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5888 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5888 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5888 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5887 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5887 
How does this phase work? 5887 
Some very raw numbers 5887 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5886 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5886 
Mid Bass Project 5886 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5885 
How to drive a long cable. 5882 
Personal Bias 5882 
There were no big red flags 5880 
The Swidish 30Hz 5880 
Who world believe! 5880 
Good news! 5879 
Two open questions. 5878 
Transition piece 5878 
About my horn skeleton. 5878 
Transitions 5878 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5878 
Boston wood guy 5878 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5878 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5878 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5878 
Possible option for fabrication 5877 
It is about softness, stupid. 5877 
Transition Zone 5877 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5877 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5876 
A good modeling software? 5876 
CAD software 5875 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5867 
The "maket" time. 5860 
Maket 5860 
! 5860 
OK, it is this Friday! 5860 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5860 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5860 
The wood source is found 5859 
OK, it is started.... 5857 
Dust to Dust 5857 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5857 
2001 Space Odasy 5857 
Interesting space 5856 
The opened up space. 5856 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5856 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5856 
Rear Chamber Access 5856 
California 5856 
Bass time domain 5856 
2001--2010 5856 
Some answers. 5856 
The Iron Rod 5856 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5856 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5855 
It is that I want. 5855 
Working Tolerances 5855 
The back chamber design 5855 
Very good 5855 
It is true, but…. 5855 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5854 
Here is my mouth. 5854 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5854 
The Fs of AKs 5854 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5854 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5854 
Sail 5854 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5853 
You are wrong. 5853 
The material of displacement plug 5853 
And the driver-winner is… 5853 
Pre-Fab 5853 
The horn will be mounted ... 5853 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5852 
4 Sides + 5852 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5851 
The Solution. 5851 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5851 
An US pomposity complex? 5851 
The back chamber predictions 5851 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5851 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5851 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5851 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5851 
Good Vibrations 5851 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5851 
Horn Thickness 5851 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5851 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5851 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5851 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5851 
Parallel what? 5851 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5850 
Sources 5850 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5850 
Damping materials revisited 5850 
How to finish my midbass horn 5850 
Wallpaper adhesion 5849 
Bright idea 5849 
I do like the brickish finish. 5849 
Venetion slats 5849 
The Ventilation subject. 5849 
How long will it take? 5849 
Insulation and horn mouth 5849 
Insulation et al. 5848 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5848 
GOD MACHINE 5848 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5848 
Ice dams - experience 5848 
Horn as "Room" 5848 
Agreed 5848 
Morons vs. Criminals 5848 
The insulation controversy. 5847 
The Conditioned Space 5847 
Ventilation 5847 
R-Value and Damping Options 5847 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5847 
Back To The Stone Age 5847 
Did you just woke up? 5847 
Yes I looked 5847 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5847 
Knocking the horn. 5847 
The current building plans. 5847 
The ideas needed. 5847 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5846 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5846 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5846 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5846 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5846 
The Stressed Skin 5846 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5846 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5846 
I do not know. 5845 
Status report #.... 5845 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5844 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5844 
It will be more clear with time. 5844 
The insulation… 5844 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5843 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5840 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5840 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5840 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5840 
Where? 5840 
From Center Photo: 5839 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5839 
The Third section argument 5839 
The front baffle. 5837 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5837 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5831 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5824 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5823 
What to do with mouth cover? 5822 
What to wear... 5822 
A lot of work.... 5821 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5818 
Cover/no cover 5817 
Red lights 5817 
Whores? 5817 
The Cat-House 5817 
The Red lights in whorns... 5817 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5817 
Dinner 5816 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5816 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5816 
Access to the bolts 5816 
The first test is comming today. 5815 
Sound impressions? 5815 
Some data, impressions and me. 5815 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5814 
A driver of some sort? 5814 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5814 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5813 
MiniDSP 5813 
Got a test croosover. 5813 
My horn trivia 5813 
Steps rather 5813 
The traps. 5812 
Eventually!!! 5812 
My favorite quote in this post: 5812 
Yep, it was me… 5812 
The second horn is rising… 5812 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5812 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5811 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5811 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5811 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5811 
What am I missing? 5811 
How to do my back chamber. 5811 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5811 
Babysitting the foam 5811 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5811 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5811 
Foam Expansion 5811 
Bite into it 5810 
Getting down with impedance 5810 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5810 
Added mass resonance 5810 
Resonance frequency and mass 5810 
La resistance 5810 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5806 
End of the project plan 5804 
Again, too much work… 5803 
Variable resonances 5803 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5803 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5803 
A word of warning and some comments. 5802 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5800 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5800 
Sanding prep for living 5800 
Too late . 5800 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5800 
Ciare car hifi 5799 
Eighteensound 5799 
The Second major milestone. 5799 
Better to be safe 5798 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5798 
Well That You Are Concerned 5798 
Sliding it in 5798 
2 people job? 5798 
The final few inches 5798 
Think Long and Hard 5798 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5798 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5798 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5798 
How to decupled horn from frame 5798 
Decoupling 5798 
Decoupling II 5797 
Pneumatic? 5797 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5797 
Silent blocks? 5797 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5797 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5797 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5797 
Straps and shocks 5797 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5797 
Weenie 5796 
The horn painting job 5796 
Romy the cork 5796 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5796 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5796 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5796 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5796 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5795 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5795 
Getting hectic. 5795 
Quick stuff job 5795 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5795 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5795 
Jessie, this is funny. 5795 
Toxic lube 5795 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5795 
The back chambers are done. 5794 
67Hz ? 5794 
Can you remind us.... 5794 
Nil risk 5794 
Chemical Wasteland 5794 
Sand. 5794 
Not decoupler but damper. 5794 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5794 
This project is on fire! 5794 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5794 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5794 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5793 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5793 
Monument 5793 
Stuning... 5793 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5793 
Reflections (sound) 5792 
Acrylate 5792 
Shaker interface 5792 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5792 
Surround 5792 
Door trim 5792 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5792 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5792 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5791 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5791 
Insulation 5790 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5790 
Condensation is the problem 5790 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5790 
Insulation 5789 
Monitoring moisture. 5789 
Moisture 5789 
Earlier in This Thread 5789 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5789 
Boots on the Ground 5789 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5789 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5787 
The ego time capsule. 5786 
Temptations!!! 5785 
The first shaking test. 5783 
The very right color. 5783 
Steps 5782 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5782 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5782 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5781 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5781 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5781 
Remote controlled LED 5780 
Giant robot halloween lights 5780 
The horns are officially opened. 5780 
School is in session 5780 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5779 
Horn trauma 5779 
About the foam 5779 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5779 
Cone-foam coupling 5779 
Misbehaving horns. 5779 
Wired 5779 
How to localize the problem 5779 
The possible cause 5779 
Impedance test the way you done it 5779 
The another day of midbass. 5778 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5778 
Let get some practical perspective. 5778 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5778 
Good signs 5778 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5777 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5777 
Ouch!... More please! 5777 
The first thing first. 5777 
Upper bass HP filter 5777 
Wipe Out 5777 
The midbass first. 5776 
The fascinating time 5776 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5775 
Midbass nasal sound 5775 
A new good configuration. 5775 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5774 
The Sliding Scale 5774 
A time for ULF... 5774 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5774 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5774 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5774 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5774 
Yup yup yup yup 5773 
Beringer x-overs 5773 
That is what I was hopping. 5771 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5771 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5770 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5770 
The dark side of all notes 5770 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5770 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5770 
AKA, Servo? 5770 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5769 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5769 
Shaping the Imagination 5769 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5769 
The fun time eventually. 5767 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5764 
Something is not right 5764 
A few howevers, as usually. 5764 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5763 
Talking about the midbass…. 5761 
Something is right. 5759 
Verifying the driver choice 5758 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5758 
The final Midbass 5753 
Official end of the midbass project… 5753 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5753 
…and the few Thanks…. 5752 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5749 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5749 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5749 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5749 
How much more can I let it go? 5744 
The next steps of progress. 5742 
Blurred transients? 5741 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5741 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5741 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5741 
Semantics and other stories 5741 
The 2dB battle…. 5738 
Ok, it is done. 5737 
Large vs. small. 5734 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5731 
Modesty 5721 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5710 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5672 
Environmental inspection. 5658 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5610 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5609 
Honk idea... 5606 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5591 
Obstetrician 5590 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5586 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5496 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5405 
To hear my midbass horn? 5342 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 5253 
Mahler sound 5253 
Default properly balanced sound. 5253 
Will horns make the difference? 5252 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 5252 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4985 
What could I say? 4962 
Dissonant use 4962 
Sell "as is" 4958 
There won't be a need for it 4956 
Congratulations 4956 
A grander scheme in mind… 4956 
The mind boggles ... 4955 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4955 
Selling argument 4949 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4805 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4805 
Simulated suspension evolution 4805 
Humidity 4805 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4804 
Recharging the Alnico 4804 
How nice! 4804 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4804 
Planning and wishing.. 4804 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4804 
What was absolute wonderful… 4804 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4804 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4803 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4802 
It looks like how it works 4802 
The end 3732 
Many share 3732 
A new house --- again 3511 
Vitavox 15/40 3014 
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