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Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5868 
Encouragement 5867 
The divers testing. 5867 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5866 
Test 5866 
To Wind Up Where? 5866 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5866 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5865 
What Next 5865 
The mid-bass laboratory 5864 
It is a different question. 5864 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5858 
Triangular midbass horns 5858 
Suspending Disbelief 5858 
Some practical strategic considerations 5845 
MB Horns Project 5845 
Another consideration – the cable length 5844 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5844 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5842 
The triangle horns in attic 5842 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5842 
About the triangular horns corners… 5842 
4-sided triangle 5842 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5842 
Bass from behind 5842 
K-Horns 5842 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5842 
The wall-loaded horns? 5842 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5842 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5842 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5842 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5841 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5841 
How does this phase work? 5841 
Some very raw numbers 5841 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5840 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5840 
Mid Bass Project 5840 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5839 
How to drive a long cable. 5836 
Personal Bias 5836 
There were no big red flags 5834 
The Swidish 30Hz 5834 
Who world believe! 5834 
Good news! 5833 
Two open questions. 5832 
Transition piece 5832 
About my horn skeleton. 5832 
Transitions 5832 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5832 
Boston wood guy 5832 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5832 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5832 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5832 
Possible option for fabrication 5831 
It is about softness, stupid. 5831 
Transition Zone 5831 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5831 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5830 
A good modeling software? 5830 
CAD software 5829 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5821 
The "maket" time. 5814 
Maket 5814 
! 5814 
OK, it is this Friday! 5814 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5814 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5814 
The wood source is found 5813 
OK, it is started.... 5811 
Dust to Dust 5811 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5811 
2001 Space Odasy 5811 
Interesting space 5810 
The opened up space. 5810 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5810 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5810 
Rear Chamber Access 5810 
California 5810 
Bass time domain 5810 
2001--2010 5810 
Some answers. 5810 
The Iron Rod 5810 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5810 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5809 
It is that I want. 5809 
Working Tolerances 5809 
The back chamber design 5809 
Very good 5809 
It is true, but…. 5809 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5808 
Here is my mouth. 5808 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5808 
The Fs of AKs 5808 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5808 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5808 
Sail 5808 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5807 
You are wrong. 5807 
The material of displacement plug 5807 
And the driver-winner is… 5807 
Pre-Fab 5807 
The horn will be mounted ... 5807 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5806 
4 Sides + 5806 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5805 
The Solution. 5805 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5805 
An US pomposity complex? 5805 
The back chamber predictions 5805 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5805 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5805 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5805 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5805 
Good Vibrations 5805 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5805 
Horn Thickness 5805 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5805 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5805 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5805 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5805 
Parallel what? 5805 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5804 
Sources 5804 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5804 
Damping materials revisited 5804 
How to finish my midbass horn 5804 
Wallpaper adhesion 5803 
Bright idea 5803 
I do like the brickish finish. 5803 
Venetion slats 5803 
The Ventilation subject. 5803 
How long will it take? 5803 
Insulation and horn mouth 5803 
Insulation et al. 5802 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5802 
GOD MACHINE 5802 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5802 
Ice dams - experience 5802 
Horn as "Room" 5802 
Agreed 5802 
Morons vs. Criminals 5802 
The insulation controversy. 5801 
The Conditioned Space 5801 
Ventilation 5801 
R-Value and Damping Options 5801 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5801 
Back To The Stone Age 5801 
Did you just woke up? 5801 
Yes I looked 5801 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5801 
Knocking the horn. 5801 
The current building plans. 5801 
The ideas needed. 5801 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5800 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5800 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5800 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5800 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5800 
The Stressed Skin 5800 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5800 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5800 
I do not know. 5799 
Status report #.... 5799 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5798 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5798 
It will be more clear with time. 5798 
The insulation… 5798 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5797 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5794 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5794 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5794 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5794 
Where? 5794 
From Center Photo: 5793 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5793 
The Third section argument 5793 
The front baffle. 5791 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5791 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5785 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5778 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5777 
What to do with mouth cover? 5776 
What to wear... 5776 
A lot of work.... 5775 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5772 
Cover/no cover 5771 
Red lights 5771 
Whores? 5771 
The Cat-House 5771 
The Red lights in whorns... 5771 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5771 
Dinner 5770 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5770 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5770 
Access to the bolts 5770 
The first test is comming today. 5769 
Sound impressions? 5769 
Some data, impressions and me. 5769 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5768 
A driver of some sort? 5768 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5768 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5767 
MiniDSP 5767 
Got a test croosover. 5767 
My horn trivia 5767 
Steps rather 5767 
The traps. 5766 
Eventually!!! 5766 
My favorite quote in this post: 5766 
Yep, it was me… 5766 
The second horn is rising… 5766 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5766 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5765 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5765 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5765 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5765 
What am I missing? 5765 
How to do my back chamber. 5765 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5765 
Babysitting the foam 5765 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5765 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5765 
Foam Expansion 5765 
Bite into it 5764 
Getting down with impedance 5764 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5764 
Added mass resonance 5764 
Resonance frequency and mass 5764 
La resistance 5764 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5760 
End of the project plan 5758 
Again, too much work… 5757 
Variable resonances 5757 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5757 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5757 
A word of warning and some comments. 5756 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5754 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5754 
Sanding prep for living 5754 
Too late . 5754 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5754 
Ciare car hifi 5753 
Eighteensound 5753 
The Second major milestone. 5753 
Better to be safe 5752 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5752 
Well That You Are Concerned 5752 
Sliding it in 5752 
2 people job? 5752 
The final few inches 5752 
Think Long and Hard 5752 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5752 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5752 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5752 
How to decupled horn from frame 5752 
Decoupling 5752 
Decoupling II 5751 
Pneumatic? 5751 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5751 
Silent blocks? 5751 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5751 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5751 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5751 
Straps and shocks 5751 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5751 
Weenie 5750 
The horn painting job 5750 
Romy the cork 5750 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5750 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5750 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5750 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5750 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5749 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5749 
Getting hectic. 5749 
Quick stuff job 5749 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5749 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5749 
Jessie, this is funny. 5749 
Toxic lube 5749 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5749 
The back chambers are done. 5748 
67Hz ? 5748 
Can you remind us.... 5748 
Nil risk 5748 
Chemical Wasteland 5748 
Sand. 5748 
Not decoupler but damper. 5748 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5748 
This project is on fire! 5748 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5748 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5748 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5747 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5747 
Monument 5747 
Stuning... 5747 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5747 
Reflections (sound) 5746 
Acrylate 5746 
Shaker interface 5746 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5746 
Surround 5746 
Door trim 5746 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5746 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5746 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5745 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5745 
Insulation 5744 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5744 
Condensation is the problem 5744 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5744 
Insulation 5743 
Monitoring moisture. 5743 
Moisture 5743 
Earlier in This Thread 5743 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5743 
Boots on the Ground 5743 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5743 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5741 
The ego time capsule. 5740 
Temptations!!! 5739 
The first shaking test. 5737 
The very right color. 5737 
Steps 5736 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5736 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5736 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5735 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5735 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5735 
Remote controlled LED 5734 
Giant robot halloween lights 5734 
The horns are officially opened. 5734 
School is in session 5734 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5733 
Horn trauma 5733 
About the foam 5733 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5733 
Cone-foam coupling 5733 
Misbehaving horns. 5733 
Wired 5733 
How to localize the problem 5733 
The possible cause 5733 
Impedance test the way you done it 5733 
The another day of midbass. 5732 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5732 
Let get some practical perspective. 5732 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5732 
Good signs 5732 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5731 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5731 
Ouch!... More please! 5731 
The first thing first. 5731 
Upper bass HP filter 5731 
Wipe Out 5731 
The midbass first. 5730 
The fascinating time 5730 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5729 
Midbass nasal sound 5729 
A new good configuration. 5729 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5728 
The Sliding Scale 5728 
A time for ULF... 5728 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5728 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5728 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5728 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5728 
Yup yup yup yup 5727 
Beringer x-overs 5727 
That is what I was hopping. 5725 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5725 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5724 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5724 
The dark side of all notes 5724 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5724 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5724 
AKA, Servo? 5724 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5723 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5723 
Shaping the Imagination 5723 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5723 
The fun time eventually. 5721 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5718 
Something is not right 5718 
A few howevers, as usually. 5718 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5717 
Talking about the midbass…. 5715 
Something is right. 5713 
Verifying the driver choice 5712 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5712 
The final Midbass 5707 
Official end of the midbass project… 5707 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5707 
…and the few Thanks…. 5706 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5703 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5703 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5703 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5703 
How much more can I let it go? 5698 
The next steps of progress. 5696 
Blurred transients? 5695 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5695 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5695 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5695 
Semantics and other stories 5695 
The 2dB battle…. 5692 
Ok, it is done. 5691 
Large vs. small. 5688 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5685 
Modesty 5675 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5664 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5626 
Environmental inspection. 5612 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5564 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5563 
Honk idea... 5560 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5545 
Obstetrician 5544 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5540 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5450 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5359 
To hear my midbass horn? 5296 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 5207 
Mahler sound 5207 
Default properly balanced sound. 5207 
Will horns make the difference? 5206 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 5206 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4939 
What could I say? 4916 
Dissonant use 4916 
Sell "as is" 4912 
There won't be a need for it 4910 
Congratulations 4910 
A grander scheme in mind… 4910 
The mind boggles ... 4909 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4909 
Selling argument 4903 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4759 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4759 
Simulated suspension evolution 4759 
Humidity 4759 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4758 
Recharging the Alnico 4758 
How nice! 4758 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4758 
Planning and wishing.. 4758 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4758 
What was absolute wonderful… 4758 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4758 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4757 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4756 
It looks like how it works 4756 
The end 3686 
Many share 3686 
A new house --- again 3465 
Vitavox 15/40 2968 
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