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In the Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems

Post Subject: My Cat as a jet propulsion enginePosted by Romy the Cat on: 5/14/2009

Lbjefferies7 wrote:

I will be laughing my ass off when I visit the GoodSoundClub website and read about a certain Cat who was finally motivated into tuning the ports on the Mini's specifically to "adjust" Macondo's sound! I am reminded of Buckminster Fuller's chosen nickname "trimtab"...the tiny rudder on the rudder of the Queen Mary, for instance. The trimtab creates a low presure that swings the huge rudder that steers the entire ship. Could Mini's port be Macondo's trimtab? I love the analogy even if it is BS.

With all of the issues with intigrating an 8 foot array of 6 (and then 7) channels, it is no wonder that the many audiophiles indulge in delusions and confuse them with solutions...assuming they have the awareness (and the jump to 'understanding' is quite a journey from that point as well). I can easily visualize (auralize?) how a midbass horn could solve some problems while creating plenty of their own.

I would agree that is would be laughable and the beneficial impact of MiniMe’s bass to Macondo will most likely have no more effect then the reaction effect of my Cat’s far would propel Earth out its orbit. Still, no matter what, the ported MiniMe’s bass section would act as some king Helmholtz Resonator for Macondo. How auditable it will be is another subject. I might keep the SS amp that drives MiniMe all time on that would damp the MiniMe’s bass drivers... If to be VERY crazy I might have negative output impedance on this SS amp that would hold the MiniMe’s bass drivers “unresonanceable”. Hold on, did I juts “invited” a way to dynamically tune a Helmholtz Resonator?

Anyhow, the very major tool in the fine-tuning of my upperbass and bass channel is… the high-pass filter on my Injection Channel. It is completely not known and very much not logically quantifiable but this high-pass filter is absolutely wonderful toll in context of Macondo that allow doing a LOT. I have seen people online were bitching about my Injection Channel but I know those people and I know that that are idiots. In reality any single person who visited me if they asked me to demonstrate the benefits of the Injection Channel were immediately and very convincingly sold. The bottom of the Injection Channel is VERY tricky subject; it moderates the “barrel effect” of my upperbass. It is like taking into a large barrel and be able to modify how much the barrel is filled. So, I presume that since the use of my Injection Channel will be most likely modified after the DHT MF channel will be in full-time use and since the MiniMe’s bass is installed and will remand where it is, I think that my upcoming fine re-tuning of Injection Channel high-pass will already include the noise that MiniMe’s bass section would introduce.

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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