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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5808 
Encouragement 5807 
The divers testing. 5807 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5806 
Test 5806 
To Wind Up Where? 5806 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5806 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5805 
What Next 5805 
The mid-bass laboratory 5804 
It is a different question. 5804 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5798 
Triangular midbass horns 5798 
Suspending Disbelief 5798 
Some practical strategic considerations 5785 
MB Horns Project 5785 
Another consideration – the cable length 5784 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5784 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5782 
The triangle horns in attic 5782 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5782 
About the triangular horns corners… 5782 
4-sided triangle 5782 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5782 
Bass from behind 5782 
K-Horns 5782 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5782 
The wall-loaded horns? 5782 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5782 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5782 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5782 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5781 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5781 
How does this phase work? 5781 
Some very raw numbers 5781 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5780 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5780 
Mid Bass Project 5780 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5779 
How to drive a long cable. 5776 
Personal Bias 5776 
There were no big red flags 5774 
The Swidish 30Hz 5774 
Who world believe! 5774 
Good news! 5773 
Two open questions. 5772 
Transition piece 5772 
About my horn skeleton. 5772 
Transitions 5772 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5772 
Boston wood guy 5772 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5772 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5772 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5772 
Possible option for fabrication 5771 
It is about softness, stupid. 5771 
Transition Zone 5771 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5771 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5770 
A good modeling software? 5770 
CAD software 5769 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5761 
The "maket" time. 5754 
Maket 5754 
! 5754 
OK, it is this Friday! 5754 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5754 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5754 
The wood source is found 5753 
OK, it is started.... 5751 
Dust to Dust 5751 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5751 
2001 Space Odasy 5751 
Interesting space 5750 
The opened up space. 5750 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5750 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5750 
Rear Chamber Access 5750 
California 5750 
Bass time domain 5750 
2001--2010 5750 
Some answers. 5750 
The Iron Rod 5750 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5750 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5749 
It is that I want. 5749 
Working Tolerances 5749 
The back chamber design 5749 
Very good 5749 
It is true, but…. 5749 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5748 
Here is my mouth. 5748 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5748 
The Fs of AKs 5748 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5748 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5748 
Sail 5748 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5747 
You are wrong. 5747 
The material of displacement plug 5747 
And the driver-winner is… 5747 
Pre-Fab 5747 
The horn will be mounted ... 5747 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5746 
4 Sides + 5746 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5745 
The Solution. 5745 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5745 
An US pomposity complex? 5745 
The back chamber predictions 5745 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5745 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5745 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5745 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5745 
Good Vibrations 5745 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5745 
Horn Thickness 5745 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5745 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5745 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5745 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5745 
Parallel what? 5745 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5744 
Sources 5744 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5744 
Damping materials revisited 5744 
How to finish my midbass horn 5744 
Wallpaper adhesion 5743 
Bright idea 5743 
I do like the brickish finish. 5743 
Venetion slats 5743 
The Ventilation subject. 5743 
How long will it take? 5743 
Insulation and horn mouth 5743 
Insulation et al. 5742 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5742 
GOD MACHINE 5742 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5742 
Ice dams - experience 5742 
Horn as "Room" 5742 
Agreed 5742 
Morons vs. Criminals 5742 
The insulation controversy. 5741 
The Conditioned Space 5741 
Ventilation 5741 
R-Value and Damping Options 5741 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5741 
Back To The Stone Age 5741 
Did you just woke up? 5741 
Yes I looked 5741 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5741 
Knocking the horn. 5741 
The current building plans. 5741 
The ideas needed. 5741 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5740 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5740 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5740 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5740 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5740 
The Stressed Skin 5740 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5740 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5740 
I do not know. 5739 
Status report #.... 5739 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5738 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5738 
It will be more clear with time. 5738 
The insulation… 5738 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5737 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5734 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5734 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5734 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5734 
Where? 5734 
From Center Photo: 5733 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5733 
The Third section argument 5733 
The front baffle. 5731 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5731 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5725 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5718 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5717 
What to do with mouth cover? 5716 
What to wear... 5716 
A lot of work.... 5715 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5712 
Cover/no cover 5711 
Red lights 5711 
Whores? 5711 
The Cat-House 5711 
The Red lights in whorns... 5711 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5711 
Dinner 5710 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5710 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5710 
Access to the bolts 5710 
The first test is comming today. 5709 
Sound impressions? 5709 
Some data, impressions and me. 5709 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5708 
A driver of some sort? 5708 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5708 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5707 
MiniDSP 5707 
Got a test croosover. 5707 
My horn trivia 5707 
Steps rather 5707 
The traps. 5706 
Eventually!!! 5706 
My favorite quote in this post: 5706 
Yep, it was me… 5706 
The second horn is rising… 5706 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5706 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5705 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5705 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5705 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5705 
What am I missing? 5705 
How to do my back chamber. 5705 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5705 
Babysitting the foam 5705 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5705 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5705 
Foam Expansion 5705 
Bite into it 5704 
Getting down with impedance 5704 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5704 
Added mass resonance 5704 
Resonance frequency and mass 5704 
La resistance 5704 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5700 
End of the project plan 5698 
Again, too much work… 5697 
Variable resonances 5697 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5697 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5697 
A word of warning and some comments. 5696 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5694 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5694 
Sanding prep for living 5694 
Too late . 5694 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5694 
Ciare car hifi 5693 
Eighteensound 5693 
The Second major milestone. 5693 
Better to be safe 5692 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5692 
Well That You Are Concerned 5692 
Sliding it in 5692 
2 people job? 5692 
The final few inches 5692 
Think Long and Hard 5692 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5692 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5692 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5692 
How to decupled horn from frame 5692 
Decoupling 5692 
Decoupling II 5691 
Pneumatic? 5691 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5691 
Silent blocks? 5691 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5691 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5691 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5691 
Straps and shocks 5691 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5691 
Weenie 5690 
The horn painting job 5690 
Romy the cork 5690 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5690 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5690 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5690 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5690 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5689 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5689 
Getting hectic. 5689 
Quick stuff job 5689 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5689 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5689 
Jessie, this is funny. 5689 
Toxic lube 5689 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5689 
The back chambers are done. 5688 
67Hz ? 5688 
Can you remind us.... 5688 
Nil risk 5688 
Chemical Wasteland 5688 
Sand. 5688 
Not decoupler but damper. 5688 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5688 
This project is on fire! 5688 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5688 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5688 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5687 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5687 
Monument 5687 
Stuning... 5687 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5687 
Reflections (sound) 5686 
Acrylate 5686 
Shaker interface 5686 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5686 
Surround 5686 
Door trim 5686 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5686 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5686 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5685 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5685 
Insulation 5684 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5684 
Condensation is the problem 5684 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5684 
Insulation 5683 
Monitoring moisture. 5683 
Moisture 5683 
Earlier in This Thread 5683 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5683 
Boots on the Ground 5683 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5683 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5681 
The ego time capsule. 5680 
Temptations!!! 5679 
The first shaking test. 5677 
The very right color. 5677 
Steps 5676 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5676 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5676 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5675 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5675 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5675 
Remote controlled LED 5674 
Giant robot halloween lights 5674 
The horns are officially opened. 5674 
School is in session 5674 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5673 
Horn trauma 5673 
About the foam 5673 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5673 
Cone-foam coupling 5673 
Misbehaving horns. 5673 
Wired 5673 
How to localize the problem 5673 
The possible cause 5673 
Impedance test the way you done it 5673 
The another day of midbass. 5672 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5672 
Let get some practical perspective. 5672 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5672 
Good signs 5672 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5671 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5671 
Ouch!... More please! 5671 
The first thing first. 5671 
Upper bass HP filter 5671 
Wipe Out 5671 
The midbass first. 5670 
The fascinating time 5670 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5669 
Midbass nasal sound 5669 
A new good configuration. 5669 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5668 
The Sliding Scale 5668 
A time for ULF... 5668 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5668 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5668 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5668 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5668 
Yup yup yup yup 5667 
Beringer x-overs 5667 
That is what I was hopping. 5665 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5665 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5664 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5664 
The dark side of all notes 5664 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5664 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5664 
AKA, Servo? 5664 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5663 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5663 
Shaping the Imagination 5663 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5663 
The fun time eventually. 5661 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5658 
Something is not right 5658 
A few howevers, as usually. 5658 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5657 
Talking about the midbass…. 5655 
Something is right. 5653 
Verifying the driver choice 5652 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5652 
The final Midbass 5647 
Official end of the midbass project… 5647 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5647 
…and the few Thanks…. 5646 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5643 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5643 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5643 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5643 
How much more can I let it go? 5638 
The next steps of progress. 5636 
Blurred transients? 5635 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5635 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5635 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5635 
Semantics and other stories 5635 
The 2dB battle…. 5632 
Ok, it is done. 5631 
Large vs. small. 5628 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5625 
Modesty 5615 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5604 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5566 
Environmental inspection. 5552 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5504 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5503 
Honk idea... 5500 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5485 
Obstetrician 5484 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5480 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5390 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5299 
To hear my midbass horn? 5236 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 5147 
Mahler sound 5147 
Default properly balanced sound. 5147 
Will horns make the difference? 5146 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 5146 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4879 
What could I say? 4856 
Dissonant use 4856 
Sell "as is" 4852 
There won't be a need for it 4850 
Congratulations 4850 
A grander scheme in mind… 4850 
The mind boggles ... 4849 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4849 
Selling argument 4843 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4699 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4699 
Simulated suspension evolution 4699 
Humidity 4699 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4698 
Recharging the Alnico 4698 
How nice! 4698 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4698 
Planning and wishing.. 4698 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4698 
What was absolute wonderful… 4698 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4698 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4697 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4696 
It looks like how it works 4696 
The end 3626 
Many share 3626 
A new house --- again 3405 
Vitavox 15/40 2908 
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