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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5090 
Encouragement 5089 
The divers testing. 5089 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5088 
Test 5088 
To Wind Up Where? 5088 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5088 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5087 
What Next 5087 
The mid-bass laboratory 5086 
It is a different question. 5086 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5080 
Triangular midbass horns 5080 
Suspending Disbelief 5080 
Some practical strategic considerations 5067 
MB Horns Project 5067 
Another consideration – the cable length 5066 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5066 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5064 
The triangle horns in attic 5064 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5064 
About the triangular horns corners… 5064 
4-sided triangle 5064 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5064 
Bass from behind 5064 
K-Horns 5064 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5064 
The wall-loaded horns? 5064 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5064 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5064 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5064 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5063 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5063 
How does this phase work? 5063 
Some very raw numbers 5063 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5062 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5062 
Mid Bass Project 5062 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5061 
How to drive a long cable. 5058 
Personal Bias 5058 
There were no big red flags 5056 
The Swidish 30Hz 5056 
Who world believe! 5056 
Good news! 5055 
Two open questions. 5054 
Transition piece 5054 
About my horn skeleton. 5054 
Transitions 5054 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5054 
Boston wood guy 5054 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5054 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5054 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5054 
Possible option for fabrication 5053 
It is about softness, stupid. 5053 
Transition Zone 5053 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5053 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5052 
A good modeling software? 5052 
CAD software 5051 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5043 
The "maket" time. 5036 
Maket 5036 
! 5036 
OK, it is this Friday! 5036 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5036 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5036 
The wood source is found 5035 
OK, it is started.... 5033 
Dust to Dust 5033 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5033 
2001 Space Odasy 5033 
Interesting space 5032 
The opened up space. 5032 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5032 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5032 
Rear Chamber Access 5032 
California 5032 
Bass time domain 5032 
2001--2010 5032 
Some answers. 5032 
The Iron Rod 5032 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5032 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5031 
It is that I want. 5031 
Working Tolerances 5031 
The back chamber design 5031 
Very good 5031 
It is true, but…. 5031 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5030 
Here is my mouth. 5030 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5030 
The Fs of AKs 5030 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5030 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5030 
Sail 5030 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5029 
You are wrong. 5029 
The material of displacement plug 5029 
And the driver-winner is… 5029 
Pre-Fab 5029 
The horn will be mounted ... 5029 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5028 
4 Sides + 5028 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5027 
The Solution. 5027 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5027 
An US pomposity complex? 5027 
The back chamber predictions 5027 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5027 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5027 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5027 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5027 
Good Vibrations 5027 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5027 
Horn Thickness 5027 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5027 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5027 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5027 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5027 
Parallel what? 5027 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5026 
Sources 5026 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5026 
Damping materials revisited 5026 
How to finish my midbass horn 5026 
Wallpaper adhesion 5025 
Bright idea 5025 
I do like the brickish finish. 5025 
Venetion slats 5025 
The Ventilation subject. 5025 
How long will it take? 5025 
Insulation and horn mouth 5025 
Insulation et al. 5024 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5024 
GOD MACHINE 5024 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5024 
Ice dams - experience 5024 
Horn as "Room" 5024 
Agreed 5024 
Morons vs. Criminals 5024 
The insulation controversy. 5023 
The Conditioned Space 5023 
Ventilation 5023 
R-Value and Damping Options 5023 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5023 
Back To The Stone Age 5023 
Did you just woke up? 5023 
Yes I looked 5023 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5023 
Knocking the horn. 5023 
The current building plans. 5023 
The ideas needed. 5023 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5022 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5022 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5022 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5022 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5022 
The Stressed Skin 5022 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5022 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5022 
I do not know. 5021 
Status report #.... 5021 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5020 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5020 
It will be more clear with time. 5020 
The insulation… 5020 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5019 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5016 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5016 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5016 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5016 
Where? 5016 
From Center Photo: 5015 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5015 
The Third section argument 5015 
The front baffle. 5013 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5013 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5007 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5000 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 4999 
What to do with mouth cover? 4998 
What to wear... 4998 
A lot of work.... 4997 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 4994 
Cover/no cover 4993 
Red lights 4993 
Whores? 4993 
The Cat-House 4993 
The Red lights in whorns... 4993 
The connection between first and second section is done. 4993 
Dinner 4992 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 4992 
The type of the flange and some plans. 4992 
Access to the bolts 4992 
The first test is comming today. 4991 
Sound impressions? 4991 
Some data, impressions and me. 4991 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 4990 
A driver of some sort? 4990 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 4990 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 4989 
MiniDSP 4989 
Got a test croosover. 4989 
My horn trivia 4989 
Steps rather 4989 
The traps. 4988 
Eventually!!! 4988 
My favorite quote in this post: 4988 
Yep, it was me… 4988 
The second horn is rising… 4988 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 4988 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 4987 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 4987 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 4987 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 4987 
What am I missing? 4987 
How to do my back chamber. 4987 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 4987 
Babysitting the foam 4987 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 4987 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 4987 
Foam Expansion 4987 
Bite into it 4986 
Getting down with impedance 4986 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 4986 
Added mass resonance 4986 
Resonance frequency and mass 4986 
La resistance 4986 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 4982 
End of the project plan 4980 
Again, too much work… 4979 
Variable resonances 4979 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 4979 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 4979 
A word of warning and some comments. 4978 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 4976 
Another looks like wasted weekend 4976 
Sanding prep for living 4976 
Too late . 4976 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 4976 
Ciare car hifi 4975 
Eighteensound 4975 
The Second major milestone. 4975 
Better to be safe 4974 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 4974 
Well That You Are Concerned 4974 
Sliding it in 4974 
2 people job? 4974 
The final few inches 4974 
Think Long and Hard 4974 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 4974 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 4974 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 4974 
How to decupled horn from frame 4974 
Decoupling 4974 
Decoupling II 4973 
Pneumatic? 4973 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 4973 
Silent blocks? 4973 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 4973 
Decoupling: It takes balls 4973 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 4973 
Straps and shocks 4973 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 4973 
Weenie 4972 
The horn painting job 4972 
Romy the cork 4972 
Stairway to throat heaven. 4972 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 4972 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 4972 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 4972 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 4971 
If everything goes as I planed.... 4971 
Getting hectic. 4971 
Quick stuff job 4971 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 4971 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 4971 
Jessie, this is funny. 4971 
Toxic lube 4971 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 4971 
The back chambers are done. 4970 
67Hz ? 4970 
Can you remind us.... 4970 
Nil risk 4970 
Chemical Wasteland 4970 
Sand. 4970 
Not decoupler but damper. 4970 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 4970 
This project is on fire! 4970 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 4970 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 4970 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 4969 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 4969 
Monument 4969 
Stuning... 4969 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 4969 
Reflections (sound) 4968 
Acrylate 4968 
Shaker interface 4968 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 4968 
Surround 4968 
Door trim 4968 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 4968 
The drywall and horn conflict. 4968 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 4967 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 4967 
Insulation 4966 
I will see it myself during the winter… 4966 
Condensation is the problem 4966 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 4966 
Insulation 4965 
Monitoring moisture. 4965 
Moisture 4965 
Earlier in This Thread 4965 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 4965 
Boots on the Ground 4965 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 4965 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 4963 
The ego time capsule. 4962 
Temptations!!! 4961 
The first shaking test. 4959 
The very right color. 4959 
Steps 4958 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 4958 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 4958 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 4957 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 4957 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 4957 
Remote controlled LED 4956 
Giant robot halloween lights 4956 
The horns are officially opened. 4956 
School is in session 4956 
The Completion. Sad for far. 4955 
Horn trauma 4955 
About the foam 4955 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 4955 
Cone-foam coupling 4955 
Misbehaving horns. 4955 
Wired 4955 
How to localize the problem 4955 
The possible cause 4955 
Impedance test the way you done it 4955 
The another day of midbass. 4954 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 4954 
Let get some practical perspective. 4954 
In search of Midbass crossover. 4954 
Good signs 4954 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 4953 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 4953 
Ouch!... More please! 4953 
The first thing first. 4953 
Upper bass HP filter 4953 
Wipe Out 4953 
The midbass first. 4952 
The fascinating time 4952 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 4951 
Midbass nasal sound 4951 
A new good configuration. 4951 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 4950 
The Sliding Scale 4950 
A time for ULF... 4950 
Stumbling around in inductorville 4950 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 4950 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 4950 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 4950 
Yup yup yup yup 4949 
Beringer x-overs 4949 
That is what I was hopping. 4947 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 4947 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 4946 
Why elephants don't jump rope 4946 
The dark side of all notes 4946 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 4946 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 4946 
AKA, Servo? 4946 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 4945 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 4945 
Shaping the Imagination 4945 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 4945 
The fun time eventually. 4943 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 4940 
Something is not right 4940 
A few howevers, as usually. 4940 
The “Amused to Death” efect 4939 
Talking about the midbass…. 4937 
Something is right. 4935 
Verifying the driver choice 4934 
The driver choose is always a quandary 4934 
The final Midbass 4929 
Official end of the midbass project… 4929 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 4929 
…and the few Thanks…. 4928 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 4925 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 4925 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 4925 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 4925 
How much more can I let it go? 4920 
The next steps of progress. 4918 
Blurred transients? 4917 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 4917 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 4917 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 4917 
Semantics and other stories 4917 
The 2dB battle…. 4914 
Ok, it is done. 4913 
Large vs. small. 4910 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 4907 
Modesty 4897 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 4886 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 4848 
Environmental inspection. 4834 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 4786 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 4785 
Honk idea... 4782 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 4767 
Obstetrician 4766 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 4762 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 4672 
The midbass channel. A year later. 4581 
To hear my midbass horn? 4518 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 4429 
Mahler sound 4429 
Default properly balanced sound. 4429 
Will horns make the difference? 4428 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 4428 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4161 
What could I say? 4138 
Dissonant use 4138 
Sell "as is" 4134 
There won't be a need for it 4132 
Congratulations 4132 
A grander scheme in mind… 4132 
The mind boggles ... 4131 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4131 
Selling argument 4125 
Midbass horns, latest story. 3981 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 3981 
Simulated suspension evolution 3981 
Humidity 3981 
Trying to do it with less blood. 3980 
Recharging the Alnico 3980 
How nice! 3980 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 3980 
Planning and wishing.. 3980 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 3980 
What was absolute wonderful… 3980 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 3980 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 3979 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 3978 
It looks like how it works 3978 
The end 2908 
Many share 2908 
A new house --- again 2687 
Vitavox 15/40 2190 
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