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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5061 
Encouragement 5060 
The divers testing. 5060 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5059 
Test 5059 
To Wind Up Where? 5059 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5059 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5058 
What Next 5058 
The mid-bass laboratory 5057 
It is a different question. 5057 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5051 
Triangular midbass horns 5051 
Suspending Disbelief 5051 
Some practical strategic considerations 5038 
MB Horns Project 5038 
Another consideration – the cable length 5037 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5037 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5035 
The triangle horns in attic 5035 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5035 
About the triangular horns corners… 5035 
4-sided triangle 5035 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5035 
Bass from behind 5035 
K-Horns 5035 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5035 
The wall-loaded horns? 5035 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5035 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5035 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5035 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5034 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5034 
How does this phase work? 5034 
Some very raw numbers 5034 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5033 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5033 
Mid Bass Project 5033 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5032 
How to drive a long cable. 5029 
Personal Bias 5029 
There were no big red flags 5027 
The Swidish 30Hz 5027 
Who world believe! 5027 
Good news! 5026 
Two open questions. 5025 
Transition piece 5025 
About my horn skeleton. 5025 
Transitions 5025 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5025 
Boston wood guy 5025 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5025 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5025 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5025 
Possible option for fabrication 5024 
It is about softness, stupid. 5024 
Transition Zone 5024 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5024 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5023 
A good modeling software? 5023 
CAD software 5022 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5014 
The "maket" time. 5007 
Maket 5007 
! 5007 
OK, it is this Friday! 5007 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5007 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5007 
The wood source is found 5006 
OK, it is started.... 5004 
Dust to Dust 5004 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5004 
2001 Space Odasy 5004 
Interesting space 5003 
The opened up space. 5003 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5003 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5003 
Rear Chamber Access 5003 
California 5003 
Bass time domain 5003 
2001--2010 5003 
Some answers. 5003 
The Iron Rod 5003 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5003 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5002 
It is that I want. 5002 
Working Tolerances 5002 
The back chamber design 5002 
Very good 5002 
It is true, but…. 5002 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5001 
Here is my mouth. 5001 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5001 
The Fs of AKs 5001 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5001 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5001 
Sail 5001 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5000 
You are wrong. 5000 
The material of displacement plug 5000 
And the driver-winner is… 5000 
Pre-Fab 5000 
The horn will be mounted ... 5000 
The Midbass horn Maquette 4999 
4 Sides + 4999 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 4998 
The Solution. 4998 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 4998 
An US pomposity complex? 4998 
The back chamber predictions 4998 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 4998 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 4998 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 4998 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 4998 
Good Vibrations 4998 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 4998 
Horn Thickness 4998 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 4998 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 4998 
Super Softness Mid Bass 4998 
The Near-Parallel Sides 4998 
Parallel what? 4998 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 4997 
Sources 4997 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 4997 
Damping materials revisited 4997 
How to finish my midbass horn 4997 
Wallpaper adhesion 4996 
Bright idea 4996 
I do like the brickish finish. 4996 
Venetion slats 4996 
The Ventilation subject. 4996 
How long will it take? 4996 
Insulation and horn mouth 4996 
Insulation et al. 4995 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 4995 
GOD MACHINE 4995 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 4995 
Ice dams - experience 4995 
Horn as "Room" 4995 
Agreed 4995 
Morons vs. Criminals 4995 
The insulation controversy. 4994 
The Conditioned Space 4994 
Ventilation 4994 
R-Value and Damping Options 4994 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 4994 
Back To The Stone Age 4994 
Did you just woke up? 4994 
Yes I looked 4994 
It was the last disciplinarian post 4994 
Knocking the horn. 4994 
The current building plans. 4994 
The ideas needed. 4994 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 4993 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 4993 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 4993 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 4993 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 4993 
The Stressed Skin 4993 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 4993 
Landscape and tree cutting service 4993 
I do not know. 4992 
Status report #.... 4992 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 4991 
From Maquette to Full Scale 4991 
It will be more clear with time. 4991 
The insulation… 4991 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 4990 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 4987 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 4987 
Debating: to redo it or not? 4987 
Being a Stick in the Mud 4987 
Where? 4987 
From Center Photo: 4986 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 4986 
The Third section argument 4986 
The front baffle. 4984 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 4984 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 4978 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 4971 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 4970 
What to do with mouth cover? 4969 
What to wear... 4969 
A lot of work.... 4968 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 4965 
Cover/no cover 4964 
Red lights 4964 
Whores? 4964 
The Cat-House 4964 
The Red lights in whorns... 4964 
The connection between first and second section is done. 4964 
Dinner 4963 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 4963 
The type of the flange and some plans. 4963 
Access to the bolts 4963 
The first test is comming today. 4962 
Sound impressions? 4962 
Some data, impressions and me. 4962 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 4961 
A driver of some sort? 4961 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 4961 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 4960 
MiniDSP 4960 
Got a test croosover. 4960 
My horn trivia 4960 
Steps rather 4960 
The traps. 4959 
Eventually!!! 4959 
My favorite quote in this post: 4959 
Yep, it was me… 4959 
The second horn is rising… 4959 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 4959 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 4958 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 4958 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 4958 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 4958 
What am I missing? 4958 
How to do my back chamber. 4958 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 4958 
Babysitting the foam 4958 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 4958 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 4958 
Foam Expansion 4958 
Bite into it 4957 
Getting down with impedance 4957 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 4957 
Added mass resonance 4957 
Resonance frequency and mass 4957 
La resistance 4957 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 4953 
End of the project plan 4951 
Again, too much work… 4950 
Variable resonances 4950 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 4950 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 4950 
A word of warning and some comments. 4949 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 4947 
Another looks like wasted weekend 4947 
Sanding prep for living 4947 
Too late . 4947 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 4947 
Ciare car hifi 4946 
Eighteensound 4946 
The Second major milestone. 4946 
Better to be safe 4945 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 4945 
Well That You Are Concerned 4945 
Sliding it in 4945 
2 people job? 4945 
The final few inches 4945 
Think Long and Hard 4945 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 4945 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 4945 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 4945 
How to decupled horn from frame 4945 
Decoupling 4945 
Decoupling II 4944 
Pneumatic? 4944 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 4944 
Silent blocks? 4944 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 4944 
Decoupling: It takes balls 4944 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 4944 
Straps and shocks 4944 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 4944 
Weenie 4943 
The horn painting job 4943 
Romy the cork 4943 
Stairway to throat heaven. 4943 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 4943 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 4943 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 4943 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 4942 
If everything goes as I planed.... 4942 
Getting hectic. 4942 
Quick stuff job 4942 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 4942 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 4942 
Jessie, this is funny. 4942 
Toxic lube 4942 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 4942 
The back chambers are done. 4941 
67Hz ? 4941 
Can you remind us.... 4941 
Nil risk 4941 
Chemical Wasteland 4941 
Sand. 4941 
Not decoupler but damper. 4941 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 4941 
This project is on fire! 4941 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 4941 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 4941 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 4940 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 4940 
Monument 4940 
Stuning... 4940 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 4940 
Reflections (sound) 4939 
Acrylate 4939 
Shaker interface 4939 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 4939 
Surround 4939 
Door trim 4939 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 4939 
The drywall and horn conflict. 4939 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 4938 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 4938 
Insulation 4937 
I will see it myself during the winter… 4937 
Condensation is the problem 4937 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 4937 
Insulation 4936 
Monitoring moisture. 4936 
Moisture 4936 
Earlier in This Thread 4936 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 4936 
Boots on the Ground 4936 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 4936 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 4934 
The ego time capsule. 4933 
Temptations!!! 4932 
The first shaking test. 4930 
The very right color. 4930 
Steps 4929 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 4929 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 4929 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 4928 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 4928 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 4928 
Remote controlled LED 4927 
Giant robot halloween lights 4927 
The horns are officially opened. 4927 
School is in session 4927 
The Completion. Sad for far. 4926 
Horn trauma 4926 
About the foam 4926 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 4926 
Cone-foam coupling 4926 
Misbehaving horns. 4926 
Wired 4926 
How to localize the problem 4926 
The possible cause 4926 
Impedance test the way you done it 4926 
The another day of midbass. 4925 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 4925 
Let get some practical perspective. 4925 
In search of Midbass crossover. 4925 
Good signs 4925 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 4924 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 4924 
Ouch!... More please! 4924 
The first thing first. 4924 
Upper bass HP filter 4924 
Wipe Out 4924 
The midbass first. 4923 
The fascinating time 4923 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 4922 
Midbass nasal sound 4922 
A new good configuration. 4922 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 4921 
The Sliding Scale 4921 
A time for ULF... 4921 
Stumbling around in inductorville 4921 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 4921 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 4921 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 4921 
Yup yup yup yup 4920 
Beringer x-overs 4920 
That is what I was hopping. 4918 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 4918 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 4917 
Why elephants don't jump rope 4917 
The dark side of all notes 4917 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 4917 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 4917 
AKA, Servo? 4917 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 4916 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 4916 
Shaping the Imagination 4916 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 4916 
The fun time eventually. 4914 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 4911 
Something is not right 4911 
A few howevers, as usually. 4911 
The “Amused to Death” efect 4910 
Talking about the midbass…. 4908 
Something is right. 4906 
Verifying the driver choice 4905 
The driver choose is always a quandary 4905 
The final Midbass 4900 
Official end of the midbass project… 4900 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 4900 
…and the few Thanks…. 4899 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 4896 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 4896 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 4896 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 4896 
How much more can I let it go? 4891 
The next steps of progress. 4889 
Blurred transients? 4888 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 4888 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 4888 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 4888 
Semantics and other stories 4888 
The 2dB battle…. 4885 
Ok, it is done. 4884 
Large vs. small. 4881 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 4878 
Modesty 4868 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 4857 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 4819 
Environmental inspection. 4805 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 4757 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 4756 
Honk idea... 4753 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 4738 
Obstetrician 4737 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 4733 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 4643 
The midbass channel. A year later. 4552 
To hear my midbass horn? 4489 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 4400 
Mahler sound 4400 
Default properly balanced sound. 4400 
Will horns make the difference? 4399 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 4399 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4132 
What could I say? 4109 
Dissonant use 4109 
Sell "as is" 4105 
There won't be a need for it 4103 
Congratulations 4103 
A grander scheme in mind… 4103 
The mind boggles ... 4102 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4102 
Selling argument 4096 
Midbass horns, latest story. 3952 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 3952 
Simulated suspension evolution 3952 
Humidity 3952 
Trying to do it with less blood. 3951 
Recharging the Alnico 3951 
How nice! 3951 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 3951 
Planning and wishing.. 3951 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 3951 
What was absolute wonderful… 3951 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 3951 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 3950 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 3949 
It looks like how it works 3949 
The end 2879 
Many share 2879 
A new house --- again 2658 
Vitavox 15/40 2161 
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