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Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5913 
Encouragement 5912 
The divers testing. 5912 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5911 
Test 5911 
To Wind Up Where? 5911 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5911 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5910 
What Next 5910 
The mid-bass laboratory 5909 
It is a different question. 5909 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5903 
Triangular midbass horns 5903 
Suspending Disbelief 5903 
Some practical strategic considerations 5890 
MB Horns Project 5890 
Another consideration – the cable length 5889 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5889 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5887 
The triangle horns in attic 5887 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5887 
About the triangular horns corners… 5887 
4-sided triangle 5887 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5887 
Bass from behind 5887 
K-Horns 5887 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5887 
The wall-loaded horns? 5887 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5887 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5887 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5887 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5886 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5886 
How does this phase work? 5886 
Some very raw numbers 5886 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5885 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5885 
Mid Bass Project 5885 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5884 
How to drive a long cable. 5881 
Personal Bias 5881 
There were no big red flags 5879 
The Swidish 30Hz 5879 
Who world believe! 5879 
Good news! 5878 
Two open questions. 5877 
Transition piece 5877 
About my horn skeleton. 5877 
Transitions 5877 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5877 
Boston wood guy 5877 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5877 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5877 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5877 
Possible option for fabrication 5876 
It is about softness, stupid. 5876 
Transition Zone 5876 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5876 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5875 
A good modeling software? 5875 
CAD software 5874 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5866 
The "maket" time. 5859 
Maket 5859 
! 5859 
OK, it is this Friday! 5859 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5859 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5859 
The wood source is found 5858 
OK, it is started.... 5856 
Dust to Dust 5856 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5856 
2001 Space Odasy 5856 
Interesting space 5855 
The opened up space. 5855 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5855 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5855 
Rear Chamber Access 5855 
California 5855 
Bass time domain 5855 
2001--2010 5855 
Some answers. 5855 
The Iron Rod 5855 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5855 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5854 
It is that I want. 5854 
Working Tolerances 5854 
The back chamber design 5854 
Very good 5854 
It is true, but…. 5854 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5853 
Here is my mouth. 5853 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5853 
The Fs of AKs 5853 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5853 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5853 
Sail 5853 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5852 
You are wrong. 5852 
The material of displacement plug 5852 
And the driver-winner is… 5852 
Pre-Fab 5852 
The horn will be mounted ... 5852 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5851 
4 Sides + 5851 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5850 
The Solution. 5850 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5850 
An US pomposity complex? 5850 
The back chamber predictions 5850 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5850 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5850 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5850 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5850 
Good Vibrations 5850 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5850 
Horn Thickness 5850 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5850 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5850 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5850 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5850 
Parallel what? 5850 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5849 
Sources 5849 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5849 
Damping materials revisited 5849 
How to finish my midbass horn 5849 
Wallpaper adhesion 5848 
Bright idea 5848 
I do like the brickish finish. 5848 
Venetion slats 5848 
The Ventilation subject. 5848 
How long will it take? 5848 
Insulation and horn mouth 5848 
Insulation et al. 5847 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5847 
GOD MACHINE 5847 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5847 
Ice dams - experience 5847 
Horn as "Room" 5847 
Agreed 5847 
Morons vs. Criminals 5847 
The insulation controversy. 5846 
The Conditioned Space 5846 
Ventilation 5846 
R-Value and Damping Options 5846 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5846 
Back To The Stone Age 5846 
Did you just woke up? 5846 
Yes I looked 5846 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5846 
Knocking the horn. 5846 
The current building plans. 5846 
The ideas needed. 5846 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5845 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5845 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5845 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5845 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5845 
The Stressed Skin 5845 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5845 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5845 
I do not know. 5844 
Status report #.... 5844 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5843 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5843 
It will be more clear with time. 5843 
The insulation… 5843 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5842 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5839 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5839 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5839 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5839 
Where? 5839 
From Center Photo: 5838 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5838 
The Third section argument 5838 
The front baffle. 5836 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5836 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5830 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5823 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5822 
What to do with mouth cover? 5821 
What to wear... 5821 
A lot of work.... 5820 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5817 
Cover/no cover 5816 
Red lights 5816 
Whores? 5816 
The Cat-House 5816 
The Red lights in whorns... 5816 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5816 
Dinner 5815 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5815 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5815 
Access to the bolts 5815 
The first test is comming today. 5814 
Sound impressions? 5814 
Some data, impressions and me. 5814 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5813 
A driver of some sort? 5813 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5813 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5812 
MiniDSP 5812 
Got a test croosover. 5812 
My horn trivia 5812 
Steps rather 5812 
The traps. 5811 
Eventually!!! 5811 
My favorite quote in this post: 5811 
Yep, it was me… 5811 
The second horn is rising… 5811 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5811 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5810 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5810 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5810 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5810 
What am I missing? 5810 
How to do my back chamber. 5810 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5810 
Babysitting the foam 5810 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5810 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5810 
Foam Expansion 5810 
Bite into it 5809 
Getting down with impedance 5809 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5809 
Added mass resonance 5809 
Resonance frequency and mass 5809 
La resistance 5809 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5805 
End of the project plan 5803 
Again, too much work… 5802 
Variable resonances 5802 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5802 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5802 
A word of warning and some comments. 5801 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5799 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5799 
Sanding prep for living 5799 
Too late . 5799 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5799 
Ciare car hifi 5798 
Eighteensound 5798 
The Second major milestone. 5798 
Better to be safe 5797 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5797 
Well That You Are Concerned 5797 
Sliding it in 5797 
2 people job? 5797 
The final few inches 5797 
Think Long and Hard 5797 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5797 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5797 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5797 
How to decupled horn from frame 5797 
Decoupling 5797 
Decoupling II 5796 
Pneumatic? 5796 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5796 
Silent blocks? 5796 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5796 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5796 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5796 
Straps and shocks 5796 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5796 
Weenie 5795 
The horn painting job 5795 
Romy the cork 5795 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5795 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5795 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5795 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5795 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5794 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5794 
Getting hectic. 5794 
Quick stuff job 5794 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5794 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5794 
Jessie, this is funny. 5794 
Toxic lube 5794 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5794 
The back chambers are done. 5793 
67Hz ? 5793 
Can you remind us.... 5793 
Nil risk 5793 
Chemical Wasteland 5793 
Sand. 5793 
Not decoupler but damper. 5793 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5793 
This project is on fire! 5793 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5793 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5793 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5792 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5792 
Monument 5792 
Stuning... 5792 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5792 
Reflections (sound) 5791 
Acrylate 5791 
Shaker interface 5791 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5791 
Surround 5791 
Door trim 5791 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5791 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5791 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5790 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5790 
Insulation 5789 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5789 
Condensation is the problem 5789 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5789 
Insulation 5788 
Monitoring moisture. 5788 
Moisture 5788 
Earlier in This Thread 5788 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5788 
Boots on the Ground 5788 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5788 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5786 
The ego time capsule. 5785 
Temptations!!! 5784 
The first shaking test. 5782 
The very right color. 5782 
Steps 5781 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5781 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5781 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5780 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5780 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5780 
Remote controlled LED 5779 
Giant robot halloween lights 5779 
The horns are officially opened. 5779 
School is in session 5779 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5778 
Horn trauma 5778 
About the foam 5778 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5778 
Cone-foam coupling 5778 
Misbehaving horns. 5778 
Wired 5778 
How to localize the problem 5778 
The possible cause 5778 
Impedance test the way you done it 5778 
The another day of midbass. 5777 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5777 
Let get some practical perspective. 5777 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5777 
Good signs 5777 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5776 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5776 
Ouch!... More please! 5776 
The first thing first. 5776 
Upper bass HP filter 5776 
Wipe Out 5776 
The midbass first. 5775 
The fascinating time 5775 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5774 
Midbass nasal sound 5774 
A new good configuration. 5774 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5773 
The Sliding Scale 5773 
A time for ULF... 5773 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5773 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5773 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5773 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5773 
Yup yup yup yup 5772 
Beringer x-overs 5772 
That is what I was hopping. 5770 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5770 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5769 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5769 
The dark side of all notes 5769 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5769 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5769 
AKA, Servo? 5769 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5768 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5768 
Shaping the Imagination 5768 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5768 
The fun time eventually. 5766 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5763 
Something is not right 5763 
A few howevers, as usually. 5763 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5762 
Talking about the midbass…. 5760 
Something is right. 5758 
Verifying the driver choice 5757 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5757 
The final Midbass 5752 
Official end of the midbass project… 5752 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5752 
…and the few Thanks…. 5751 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5748 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5748 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5748 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5748 
How much more can I let it go? 5743 
The next steps of progress. 5741 
Blurred transients? 5740 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5740 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5740 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5740 
Semantics and other stories 5740 
The 2dB battle…. 5737 
Ok, it is done. 5736 
Large vs. small. 5733 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5730 
Modesty 5720 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5709 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5671 
Environmental inspection. 5657 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5609 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5608 
Honk idea... 5605 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5590 
Obstetrician 5589 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5585 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5495 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5404 
To hear my midbass horn? 5341 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 5252 
Mahler sound 5252 
Default properly balanced sound. 5252 
Will horns make the difference? 5251 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 5251 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4984 
What could I say? 4961 
Dissonant use 4961 
Sell "as is" 4957 
There won't be a need for it 4955 
Congratulations 4955 
A grander scheme in mind… 4955 
The mind boggles ... 4954 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4954 
Selling argument 4948 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4804 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4804 
Simulated suspension evolution 4804 
Humidity 4804 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4803 
Recharging the Alnico 4803 
How nice! 4803 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4803 
Planning and wishing.. 4803 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4803 
What was absolute wonderful… 4803 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4803 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4802 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4801 
It looks like how it works 4801 
The end 3731 
Many share 3731 
A new house --- again 3510 
Vitavox 15/40 3013 
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