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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5685 
Encouragement 5684 
The divers testing. 5684 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5683 
Test 5683 
To Wind Up Where? 5683 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5683 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5682 
What Next 5682 
The mid-bass laboratory 5681 
It is a different question. 5681 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5675 
Triangular midbass horns 5675 
Suspending Disbelief 5675 
Some practical strategic considerations 5662 
MB Horns Project 5662 
Another consideration – the cable length 5661 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5661 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5659 
The triangle horns in attic 5659 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5659 
About the triangular horns corners… 5659 
4-sided triangle 5659 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5659 
Bass from behind 5659 
K-Horns 5659 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5659 
The wall-loaded horns? 5659 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5659 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5659 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5659 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5658 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5658 
How does this phase work? 5658 
Some very raw numbers 5658 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5657 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5657 
Mid Bass Project 5657 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5656 
How to drive a long cable. 5653 
Personal Bias 5653 
There were no big red flags 5651 
The Swidish 30Hz 5651 
Who world believe! 5651 
Good news! 5650 
Two open questions. 5649 
Transition piece 5649 
About my horn skeleton. 5649 
Transitions 5649 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5649 
Boston wood guy 5649 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5649 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5649 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5649 
Possible option for fabrication 5648 
It is about softness, stupid. 5648 
Transition Zone 5648 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5648 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5647 
A good modeling software? 5647 
CAD software 5646 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5638 
The "maket" time. 5631 
Maket 5631 
! 5631 
OK, it is this Friday! 5631 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5631 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5631 
The wood source is found 5630 
OK, it is started.... 5628 
Dust to Dust 5628 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5628 
2001 Space Odasy 5628 
Interesting space 5627 
The opened up space. 5627 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5627 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5627 
Rear Chamber Access 5627 
California 5627 
Bass time domain 5627 
2001--2010 5627 
Some answers. 5627 
The Iron Rod 5627 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5627 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5626 
It is that I want. 5626 
Working Tolerances 5626 
The back chamber design 5626 
Very good 5626 
It is true, but…. 5626 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5625 
Here is my mouth. 5625 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5625 
The Fs of AKs 5625 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5625 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5625 
Sail 5625 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5624 
You are wrong. 5624 
The material of displacement plug 5624 
And the driver-winner is… 5624 
Pre-Fab 5624 
The horn will be mounted ... 5624 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5623 
4 Sides + 5623 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5622 
The Solution. 5622 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5622 
An US pomposity complex? 5622 
The back chamber predictions 5622 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5622 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5622 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5622 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5622 
Good Vibrations 5622 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5622 
Horn Thickness 5622 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5622 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5622 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5622 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5622 
Parallel what? 5622 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5621 
Sources 5621 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5621 
Damping materials revisited 5621 
How to finish my midbass horn 5621 
Wallpaper adhesion 5620 
Bright idea 5620 
I do like the brickish finish. 5620 
Venetion slats 5620 
The Ventilation subject. 5620 
How long will it take? 5620 
Insulation and horn mouth 5620 
Insulation et al. 5619 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5619 
GOD MACHINE 5619 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5619 
Ice dams - experience 5619 
Horn as "Room" 5619 
Agreed 5619 
Morons vs. Criminals 5619 
The insulation controversy. 5618 
The Conditioned Space 5618 
Ventilation 5618 
R-Value and Damping Options 5618 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5618 
Back To The Stone Age 5618 
Did you just woke up? 5618 
Yes I looked 5618 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5618 
Knocking the horn. 5618 
The current building plans. 5618 
The ideas needed. 5618 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5617 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5617 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5617 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5617 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5617 
The Stressed Skin 5617 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5617 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5617 
I do not know. 5616 
Status report #.... 5616 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5615 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5615 
It will be more clear with time. 5615 
The insulation… 5615 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5614 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5611 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5611 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5611 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5611 
Where? 5611 
From Center Photo: 5610 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5610 
The Third section argument 5610 
The front baffle. 5608 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5608 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5602 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5595 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5594 
What to do with mouth cover? 5593 
What to wear... 5593 
A lot of work.... 5592 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5589 
Cover/no cover 5588 
Red lights 5588 
Whores? 5588 
The Cat-House 5588 
The Red lights in whorns... 5588 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5588 
Dinner 5587 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5587 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5587 
Access to the bolts 5587 
The first test is comming today. 5586 
Sound impressions? 5586 
Some data, impressions and me. 5586 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5585 
A driver of some sort? 5585 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5585 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5584 
MiniDSP 5584 
Got a test croosover. 5584 
My horn trivia 5584 
Steps rather 5584 
The traps. 5583 
Eventually!!! 5583 
My favorite quote in this post: 5583 
Yep, it was me… 5583 
The second horn is rising… 5583 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5583 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5582 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5582 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5582 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5582 
What am I missing? 5582 
How to do my back chamber. 5582 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5582 
Babysitting the foam 5582 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5582 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5582 
Foam Expansion 5582 
Bite into it 5581 
Getting down with impedance 5581 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5581 
Added mass resonance 5581 
Resonance frequency and mass 5581 
La resistance 5581 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5577 
End of the project plan 5575 
Again, too much work… 5574 
Variable resonances 5574 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5574 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5574 
A word of warning and some comments. 5573 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5571 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5571 
Sanding prep for living 5571 
Too late . 5571 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5571 
Ciare car hifi 5570 
Eighteensound 5570 
The Second major milestone. 5570 
Better to be safe 5569 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5569 
Well That You Are Concerned 5569 
Sliding it in 5569 
2 people job? 5569 
The final few inches 5569 
Think Long and Hard 5569 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5569 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5569 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5569 
How to decupled horn from frame 5569 
Decoupling 5569 
Decoupling II 5568 
Pneumatic? 5568 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5568 
Silent blocks? 5568 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5568 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5568 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5568 
Straps and shocks 5568 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5568 
Weenie 5567 
The horn painting job 5567 
Romy the cork 5567 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5567 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5567 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5567 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5567 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5566 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5566 
Getting hectic. 5566 
Quick stuff job 5566 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5566 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5566 
Jessie, this is funny. 5566 
Toxic lube 5566 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5566 
The back chambers are done. 5565 
67Hz ? 5565 
Can you remind us.... 5565 
Nil risk 5565 
Chemical Wasteland 5565 
Sand. 5565 
Not decoupler but damper. 5565 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5565 
This project is on fire! 5565 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5565 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5565 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5564 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5564 
Monument 5564 
Stuning... 5564 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5564 
Reflections (sound) 5563 
Acrylate 5563 
Shaker interface 5563 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5563 
Surround 5563 
Door trim 5563 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5563 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5563 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5562 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5562 
Insulation 5561 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5561 
Condensation is the problem 5561 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5561 
Insulation 5560 
Monitoring moisture. 5560 
Moisture 5560 
Earlier in This Thread 5560 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5560 
Boots on the Ground 5560 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5560 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5558 
The ego time capsule. 5557 
Temptations!!! 5556 
The first shaking test. 5554 
The very right color. 5554 
Steps 5553 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5553 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5553 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5552 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5552 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5552 
Remote controlled LED 5551 
Giant robot halloween lights 5551 
The horns are officially opened. 5551 
School is in session 5551 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5550 
Horn trauma 5550 
About the foam 5550 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5550 
Cone-foam coupling 5550 
Misbehaving horns. 5550 
Wired 5550 
How to localize the problem 5550 
The possible cause 5550 
Impedance test the way you done it 5550 
The another day of midbass. 5549 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5549 
Let get some practical perspective. 5549 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5549 
Good signs 5549 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5548 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5548 
Ouch!... More please! 5548 
The first thing first. 5548 
Upper bass HP filter 5548 
Wipe Out 5548 
The midbass first. 5547 
The fascinating time 5547 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5546 
Midbass nasal sound 5546 
A new good configuration. 5546 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5545 
The Sliding Scale 5545 
A time for ULF... 5545 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5545 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5545 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5545 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5545 
Yup yup yup yup 5544 
Beringer x-overs 5544 
That is what I was hopping. 5542 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5542 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5541 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5541 
The dark side of all notes 5541 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5541 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5541 
AKA, Servo? 5541 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5540 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5540 
Shaping the Imagination 5540 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5540 
The fun time eventually. 5538 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5535 
Something is not right 5535 
A few howevers, as usually. 5535 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5534 
Talking about the midbass…. 5532 
Something is right. 5530 
Verifying the driver choice 5529 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5529 
The final Midbass 5524 
Official end of the midbass project… 5524 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5524 
…and the few Thanks…. 5523 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5520 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5520 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5520 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5520 
How much more can I let it go? 5515 
The next steps of progress. 5513 
Blurred transients? 5512 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5512 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5512 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5512 
Semantics and other stories 5512 
The 2dB battle…. 5509 
Ok, it is done. 5508 
Large vs. small. 5505 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5502 
Modesty 5492 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5481 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5443 
Environmental inspection. 5429 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5381 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5380 
Honk idea... 5377 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5362 
Obstetrician 5361 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5357 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5267 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5176 
To hear my midbass horn? 5113 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 5024 
Mahler sound 5024 
Default properly balanced sound. 5024 
Will horns make the difference? 5023 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 5023 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4756 
What could I say? 4733 
Dissonant use 4733 
Sell "as is" 4729 
There won't be a need for it 4727 
Congratulations 4727 
A grander scheme in mind… 4727 
The mind boggles ... 4726 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4726 
Selling argument 4720 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4576 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4576 
Simulated suspension evolution 4576 
Humidity 4576 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4575 
Recharging the Alnico 4575 
How nice! 4575 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4575 
Planning and wishing.. 4575 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4575 
What was absolute wonderful… 4575 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4575 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4574 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4573 
It looks like how it works 4573 
The end 3503 
Many share 3503 
A new house --- again 3282 
Vitavox 15/40 2785 
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