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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 6004 
Encouragement 6003 
The divers testing. 6003 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 6002 
Test 6002 
To Wind Up Where? 6002 
Infinite Baffle Parody 6002 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 6001 
What Next 6001 
The mid-bass laboratory 6000 
It is a different question. 6000 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5994 
Triangular midbass horns 5994 
Suspending Disbelief 5994 
Some practical strategic considerations 5981 
MB Horns Project 5981 
Another consideration – the cable length 5980 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5980 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5978 
The triangle horns in attic 5978 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5978 
About the triangular horns corners… 5978 
4-sided triangle 5978 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5978 
Bass from behind 5978 
K-Horns 5978 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5978 
The wall-loaded horns? 5978 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5978 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5978 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5978 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5977 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5977 
How does this phase work? 5977 
Some very raw numbers 5977 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5976 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5976 
Mid Bass Project 5976 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5975 
How to drive a long cable. 5972 
Personal Bias 5972 
There were no big red flags 5970 
The Swidish 30Hz 5970 
Who world believe! 5970 
Good news! 5969 
Two open questions. 5968 
Transition piece 5968 
About my horn skeleton. 5968 
Transitions 5968 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5968 
Boston wood guy 5968 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5968 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5968 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5968 
Possible option for fabrication 5967 
It is about softness, stupid. 5967 
Transition Zone 5967 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5967 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5966 
A good modeling software? 5966 
CAD software 5965 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5957 
The "maket" time. 5950 
Maket 5950 
! 5950 
OK, it is this Friday! 5950 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5950 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5950 
The wood source is found 5949 
OK, it is started.... 5947 
Dust to Dust 5947 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5947 
2001 Space Odasy 5947 
Interesting space 5946 
The opened up space. 5946 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5946 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5946 
Rear Chamber Access 5946 
California 5946 
Bass time domain 5946 
2001--2010 5946 
Some answers. 5946 
The Iron Rod 5946 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5946 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5945 
It is that I want. 5945 
Working Tolerances 5945 
The back chamber design 5945 
Very good 5945 
It is true, but…. 5945 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5944 
Here is my mouth. 5944 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5944 
The Fs of AKs 5944 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5944 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5944 
Sail 5944 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5943 
You are wrong. 5943 
The material of displacement plug 5943 
And the driver-winner is… 5943 
Pre-Fab 5943 
The horn will be mounted ... 5943 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5942 
4 Sides + 5942 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5941 
The Solution. 5941 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5941 
An US pomposity complex? 5941 
The back chamber predictions 5941 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5941 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5941 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5941 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5941 
Good Vibrations 5941 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5941 
Horn Thickness 5941 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5941 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5941 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5941 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5941 
Parallel what? 5941 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5940 
Sources 5940 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5940 
Damping materials revisited 5940 
How to finish my midbass horn 5940 
Wallpaper adhesion 5939 
Bright idea 5939 
I do like the brickish finish. 5939 
Venetion slats 5939 
The Ventilation subject. 5939 
How long will it take? 5939 
Insulation and horn mouth 5939 
Insulation et al. 5938 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5938 
GOD MACHINE 5938 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5938 
Ice dams - experience 5938 
Horn as "Room" 5938 
Agreed 5938 
Morons vs. Criminals 5938 
The insulation controversy. 5937 
The Conditioned Space 5937 
Ventilation 5937 
R-Value and Damping Options 5937 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5937 
Back To The Stone Age 5937 
Did you just woke up? 5937 
Yes I looked 5937 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5937 
Knocking the horn. 5937 
The current building plans. 5937 
The ideas needed. 5937 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5936 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5936 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5936 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5936 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5936 
The Stressed Skin 5936 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5936 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5936 
I do not know. 5935 
Status report #.... 5935 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5934 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5934 
It will be more clear with time. 5934 
The insulation… 5934 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5933 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5930 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5930 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5930 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5930 
Where? 5930 
From Center Photo: 5929 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5929 
The Third section argument 5929 
The front baffle. 5927 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5927 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5921 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5914 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5913 
What to do with mouth cover? 5912 
What to wear... 5912 
A lot of work.... 5911 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5908 
Cover/no cover 5907 
Red lights 5907 
Whores? 5907 
The Cat-House 5907 
The Red lights in whorns... 5907 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5907 
Dinner 5906 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5906 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5906 
Access to the bolts 5906 
The first test is comming today. 5905 
Sound impressions? 5905 
Some data, impressions and me. 5905 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5904 
A driver of some sort? 5904 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5904 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5903 
MiniDSP 5903 
Got a test croosover. 5903 
My horn trivia 5903 
Steps rather 5903 
The traps. 5902 
Eventually!!! 5902 
My favorite quote in this post: 5902 
Yep, it was me… 5902 
The second horn is rising… 5902 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5902 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5901 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5901 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5901 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5901 
What am I missing? 5901 
How to do my back chamber. 5901 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5901 
Babysitting the foam 5901 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5901 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5901 
Foam Expansion 5901 
Bite into it 5900 
Getting down with impedance 5900 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5900 
Added mass resonance 5900 
Resonance frequency and mass 5900 
La resistance 5900 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5896 
End of the project plan 5894 
Again, too much work… 5893 
Variable resonances 5893 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5893 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5893 
A word of warning and some comments. 5892 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5890 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5890 
Sanding prep for living 5890 
Too late . 5890 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5890 
Ciare car hifi 5889 
Eighteensound 5889 
The Second major milestone. 5889 
Better to be safe 5888 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5888 
Well That You Are Concerned 5888 
Sliding it in 5888 
2 people job? 5888 
The final few inches 5888 
Think Long and Hard 5888 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5888 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5888 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5888 
How to decupled horn from frame 5888 
Decoupling 5888 
Decoupling II 5887 
Pneumatic? 5887 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5887 
Silent blocks? 5887 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5887 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5887 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5887 
Straps and shocks 5887 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5887 
Weenie 5886 
The horn painting job 5886 
Romy the cork 5886 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5886 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5886 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5886 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5886 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5885 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5885 
Getting hectic. 5885 
Quick stuff job 5885 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5885 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5885 
Jessie, this is funny. 5885 
Toxic lube 5885 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5885 
The back chambers are done. 5884 
67Hz ? 5884 
Can you remind us.... 5884 
Nil risk 5884 
Chemical Wasteland 5884 
Sand. 5884 
Not decoupler but damper. 5884 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5884 
This project is on fire! 5884 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5884 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5884 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5883 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5883 
Monument 5883 
Stuning... 5883 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5883 
Reflections (sound) 5882 
Acrylate 5882 
Shaker interface 5882 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5882 
Surround 5882 
Door trim 5882 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5882 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5882 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5881 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5881 
Insulation 5880 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5880 
Condensation is the problem 5880 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5880 
Insulation 5879 
Monitoring moisture. 5879 
Moisture 5879 
Earlier in This Thread 5879 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5879 
Boots on the Ground 5879 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5879 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5877 
The ego time capsule. 5876 
Temptations!!! 5875 
The first shaking test. 5873 
The very right color. 5873 
Steps 5872 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5872 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5872 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5871 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5871 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5871 
Remote controlled LED 5870 
Giant robot halloween lights 5870 
The horns are officially opened. 5870 
School is in session 5870 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5869 
Horn trauma 5869 
About the foam 5869 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5869 
Cone-foam coupling 5869 
Misbehaving horns. 5869 
Wired 5869 
How to localize the problem 5869 
The possible cause 5869 
Impedance test the way you done it 5869 
The another day of midbass. 5868 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5868 
Let get some practical perspective. 5868 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5868 
Good signs 5868 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5867 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5867 
Ouch!... More please! 5867 
The first thing first. 5867 
Upper bass HP filter 5867 
Wipe Out 5867 
The midbass first. 5866 
The fascinating time 5866 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5865 
Midbass nasal sound 5865 
A new good configuration. 5865 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5864 
The Sliding Scale 5864 
A time for ULF... 5864 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5864 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5864 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5864 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5864 
Yup yup yup yup 5863 
Beringer x-overs 5863 
That is what I was hopping. 5861 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5861 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5860 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5860 
The dark side of all notes 5860 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5860 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5860 
AKA, Servo? 5860 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5859 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5859 
Shaping the Imagination 5859 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5859 
The fun time eventually. 5857 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5854 
Something is not right 5854 
A few howevers, as usually. 5854 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5853 
Talking about the midbass…. 5851 
Something is right. 5849 
Verifying the driver choice 5848 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5848 
The final Midbass 5843 
Official end of the midbass project… 5843 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5843 
…and the few Thanks…. 5842 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5839 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5839 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5839 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5839 
How much more can I let it go? 5834 
The next steps of progress. 5832 
Blurred transients? 5831 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5831 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5831 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5831 
Semantics and other stories 5831 
The 2dB battle…. 5828 
Ok, it is done. 5827 
Large vs. small. 5824 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5821 
Modesty 5811 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5800 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5762 
Environmental inspection. 5748 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5700 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5699 
Honk idea... 5696 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5681 
Obstetrician 5680 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5676 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5586 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5495 
To hear my midbass horn? 5432 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 5343 
Mahler sound 5343 
Default properly balanced sound. 5343 
Will horns make the difference? 5342 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 5342 
Surprising and Interesting development … 5075 
What could I say? 5052 
Dissonant use 5052 
Sell "as is" 5048 
There won't be a need for it 5046 
Congratulations 5046 
A grander scheme in mind… 5046 
The mind boggles ... 5045 
Audio as an interactive subject. 5045 
Selling argument 5039 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4895 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4895 
Simulated suspension evolution 4895 
Humidity 4895 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4894 
Recharging the Alnico 4894 
How nice! 4894 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4894 
Planning and wishing.. 4894 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4894 
What was absolute wonderful… 4894 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4894 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4893 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4892 
It looks like how it works 4892 
The end 3822 
Many share 3822 
A new house --- again 3601 
Vitavox 15/40 3104 
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