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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5959 
Encouragement 5958 
The divers testing. 5958 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5957 
Test 5957 
To Wind Up Where? 5957 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5957 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5956 
What Next 5956 
The mid-bass laboratory 5955 
It is a different question. 5955 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5949 
Triangular midbass horns 5949 
Suspending Disbelief 5949 
Some practical strategic considerations 5936 
MB Horns Project 5936 
Another consideration – the cable length 5935 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5935 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5933 
The triangle horns in attic 5933 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5933 
About the triangular horns corners… 5933 
4-sided triangle 5933 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5933 
Bass from behind 5933 
K-Horns 5933 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5933 
The wall-loaded horns? 5933 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5933 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5933 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5933 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5932 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5932 
How does this phase work? 5932 
Some very raw numbers 5932 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5931 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5931 
Mid Bass Project 5931 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5930 
How to drive a long cable. 5927 
Personal Bias 5927 
There were no big red flags 5925 
The Swidish 30Hz 5925 
Who world believe! 5925 
Good news! 5924 
Two open questions. 5923 
Transition piece 5923 
About my horn skeleton. 5923 
Transitions 5923 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5923 
Boston wood guy 5923 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5923 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5923 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5923 
Possible option for fabrication 5922 
It is about softness, stupid. 5922 
Transition Zone 5922 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5922 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5921 
A good modeling software? 5921 
CAD software 5920 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5912 
The "maket" time. 5905 
Maket 5905 
! 5905 
OK, it is this Friday! 5905 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5905 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5905 
The wood source is found 5904 
OK, it is started.... 5902 
Dust to Dust 5902 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5902 
2001 Space Odasy 5902 
Interesting space 5901 
The opened up space. 5901 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5901 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5901 
Rear Chamber Access 5901 
California 5901 
Bass time domain 5901 
2001--2010 5901 
Some answers. 5901 
The Iron Rod 5901 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5901 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5900 
It is that I want. 5900 
Working Tolerances 5900 
The back chamber design 5900 
Very good 5900 
It is true, but…. 5900 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5899 
Here is my mouth. 5899 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5899 
The Fs of AKs 5899 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5899 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5899 
Sail 5899 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5898 
You are wrong. 5898 
The material of displacement plug 5898 
And the driver-winner is… 5898 
Pre-Fab 5898 
The horn will be mounted ... 5898 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5897 
4 Sides + 5897 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5896 
The Solution. 5896 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5896 
An US pomposity complex? 5896 
The back chamber predictions 5896 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5896 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5896 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5896 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5896 
Good Vibrations 5896 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5896 
Horn Thickness 5896 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5896 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5896 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5896 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5896 
Parallel what? 5896 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5895 
Sources 5895 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5895 
Damping materials revisited 5895 
How to finish my midbass horn 5895 
Wallpaper adhesion 5894 
Bright idea 5894 
I do like the brickish finish. 5894 
Venetion slats 5894 
The Ventilation subject. 5894 
How long will it take? 5894 
Insulation and horn mouth 5894 
Insulation et al. 5893 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5893 
GOD MACHINE 5893 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5893 
Ice dams - experience 5893 
Horn as "Room" 5893 
Agreed 5893 
Morons vs. Criminals 5893 
The insulation controversy. 5892 
The Conditioned Space 5892 
Ventilation 5892 
R-Value and Damping Options 5892 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5892 
Back To The Stone Age 5892 
Did you just woke up? 5892 
Yes I looked 5892 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5892 
Knocking the horn. 5892 
The current building plans. 5892 
The ideas needed. 5892 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5891 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5891 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5891 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5891 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5891 
The Stressed Skin 5891 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5891 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5891 
I do not know. 5890 
Status report #.... 5890 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5889 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5889 
It will be more clear with time. 5889 
The insulation… 5889 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5888 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5885 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5885 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5885 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5885 
Where? 5885 
From Center Photo: 5884 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5884 
The Third section argument 5884 
The front baffle. 5882 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5882 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5876 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5869 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5868 
What to do with mouth cover? 5867 
What to wear... 5867 
A lot of work.... 5866 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5863 
Cover/no cover 5862 
Red lights 5862 
Whores? 5862 
The Cat-House 5862 
The Red lights in whorns... 5862 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5862 
Dinner 5861 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5861 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5861 
Access to the bolts 5861 
The first test is comming today. 5860 
Sound impressions? 5860 
Some data, impressions and me. 5860 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5859 
A driver of some sort? 5859 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5859 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5858 
MiniDSP 5858 
Got a test croosover. 5858 
My horn trivia 5858 
Steps rather 5858 
The traps. 5857 
Eventually!!! 5857 
My favorite quote in this post: 5857 
Yep, it was me… 5857 
The second horn is rising… 5857 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5857 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5856 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5856 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5856 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5856 
What am I missing? 5856 
How to do my back chamber. 5856 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5856 
Babysitting the foam 5856 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5856 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5856 
Foam Expansion 5856 
Bite into it 5855 
Getting down with impedance 5855 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5855 
Added mass resonance 5855 
Resonance frequency and mass 5855 
La resistance 5855 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5851 
End of the project plan 5849 
Again, too much work… 5848 
Variable resonances 5848 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5848 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5848 
A word of warning and some comments. 5847 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5845 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5845 
Sanding prep for living 5845 
Too late . 5845 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5845 
Ciare car hifi 5844 
Eighteensound 5844 
The Second major milestone. 5844 
Better to be safe 5843 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5843 
Well That You Are Concerned 5843 
Sliding it in 5843 
2 people job? 5843 
The final few inches 5843 
Think Long and Hard 5843 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5843 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5843 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5843 
How to decupled horn from frame 5843 
Decoupling 5843 
Decoupling II 5842 
Pneumatic? 5842 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5842 
Silent blocks? 5842 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5842 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5842 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5842 
Straps and shocks 5842 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5842 
Weenie 5841 
The horn painting job 5841 
Romy the cork 5841 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5841 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5841 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5841 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5841 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5840 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5840 
Getting hectic. 5840 
Quick stuff job 5840 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5840 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5840 
Jessie, this is funny. 5840 
Toxic lube 5840 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5840 
The back chambers are done. 5839 
67Hz ? 5839 
Can you remind us.... 5839 
Nil risk 5839 
Chemical Wasteland 5839 
Sand. 5839 
Not decoupler but damper. 5839 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5839 
This project is on fire! 5839 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5839 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5839 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5838 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5838 
Monument 5838 
Stuning... 5838 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5838 
Reflections (sound) 5837 
Acrylate 5837 
Shaker interface 5837 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5837 
Surround 5837 
Door trim 5837 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5837 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5837 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5836 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5836 
Insulation 5835 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5835 
Condensation is the problem 5835 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5835 
Insulation 5834 
Monitoring moisture. 5834 
Moisture 5834 
Earlier in This Thread 5834 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5834 
Boots on the Ground 5834 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5834 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5832 
The ego time capsule. 5831 
Temptations!!! 5830 
The first shaking test. 5828 
The very right color. 5828 
Steps 5827 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5827 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5827 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5826 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5826 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5826 
Remote controlled LED 5825 
Giant robot halloween lights 5825 
The horns are officially opened. 5825 
School is in session 5825 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5824 
Horn trauma 5824 
About the foam 5824 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5824 
Cone-foam coupling 5824 
Misbehaving horns. 5824 
Wired 5824 
How to localize the problem 5824 
The possible cause 5824 
Impedance test the way you done it 5824 
The another day of midbass. 5823 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5823 
Let get some practical perspective. 5823 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5823 
Good signs 5823 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5822 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5822 
Ouch!... More please! 5822 
The first thing first. 5822 
Upper bass HP filter 5822 
Wipe Out 5822 
The midbass first. 5821 
The fascinating time 5821 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5820 
Midbass nasal sound 5820 
A new good configuration. 5820 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5819 
The Sliding Scale 5819 
A time for ULF... 5819 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5819 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5819 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5819 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5819 
Yup yup yup yup 5818 
Beringer x-overs 5818 
That is what I was hopping. 5816 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5816 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5815 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5815 
The dark side of all notes 5815 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5815 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5815 
AKA, Servo? 5815 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5814 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5814 
Shaping the Imagination 5814 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5814 
The fun time eventually. 5812 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5809 
Something is not right 5809 
A few howevers, as usually. 5809 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5808 
Talking about the midbass…. 5806 
Something is right. 5804 
Verifying the driver choice 5803 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5803 
The final Midbass 5798 
Official end of the midbass project… 5798 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5798 
…and the few Thanks…. 5797 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5794 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5794 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5794 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5794 
How much more can I let it go? 5789 
The next steps of progress. 5787 
Blurred transients? 5786 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5786 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5786 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5786 
Semantics and other stories 5786 
The 2dB battle…. 5783 
Ok, it is done. 5782 
Large vs. small. 5779 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5776 
Modesty 5766 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5755 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5717 
Environmental inspection. 5703 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5655 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5654 
Honk idea... 5651 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5636 
Obstetrician 5635 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5631 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5541 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5450 
To hear my midbass horn? 5387 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 5298 
Mahler sound 5298 
Default properly balanced sound. 5298 
Will horns make the difference? 5297 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 5297 
Surprising and Interesting development … 5030 
What could I say? 5007 
Dissonant use 5007 
Sell "as is" 5003 
There won't be a need for it 5001 
Congratulations 5001 
A grander scheme in mind… 5001 
The mind boggles ... 5000 
Audio as an interactive subject. 5000 
Selling argument 4994 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4850 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4850 
Simulated suspension evolution 4850 
Humidity 4850 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4849 
Recharging the Alnico 4849 
How nice! 4849 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4849 
Planning and wishing.. 4849 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4849 
What was absolute wonderful… 4849 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4849 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4848 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4847 
It looks like how it works 4847 
The end 3777 
Many share 3777 
A new house --- again 3556 
Vitavox 15/40 3059 
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