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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 6009 
Encouragement 6008 
The divers testing. 6008 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 6007 
Test 6007 
To Wind Up Where? 6007 
Infinite Baffle Parody 6007 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 6006 
What Next 6006 
The mid-bass laboratory 6005 
It is a different question. 6005 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5999 
Triangular midbass horns 5999 
Suspending Disbelief 5999 
Some practical strategic considerations 5986 
MB Horns Project 5986 
Another consideration – the cable length 5985 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5985 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5983 
The triangle horns in attic 5983 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5983 
About the triangular horns corners… 5983 
4-sided triangle 5983 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5983 
Bass from behind 5983 
K-Horns 5983 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5983 
The wall-loaded horns? 5983 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5983 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5983 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5983 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5982 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5982 
How does this phase work? 5982 
Some very raw numbers 5982 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5981 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5981 
Mid Bass Project 5981 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5980 
How to drive a long cable. 5977 
Personal Bias 5977 
There were no big red flags 5975 
The Swidish 30Hz 5975 
Who world believe! 5975 
Good news! 5974 
Two open questions. 5973 
Transition piece 5973 
About my horn skeleton. 5973 
Transitions 5973 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5973 
Boston wood guy 5973 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5973 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5973 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5973 
Possible option for fabrication 5972 
It is about softness, stupid. 5972 
Transition Zone 5972 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5972 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5971 
A good modeling software? 5971 
CAD software 5970 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5962 
The "maket" time. 5955 
Maket 5955 
! 5955 
OK, it is this Friday! 5955 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5955 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5955 
The wood source is found 5954 
OK, it is started.... 5952 
Dust to Dust 5952 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5952 
2001 Space Odasy 5952 
Interesting space 5951 
The opened up space. 5951 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5951 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5951 
Rear Chamber Access 5951 
California 5951 
Bass time domain 5951 
2001--2010 5951 
Some answers. 5951 
The Iron Rod 5951 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5951 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5950 
It is that I want. 5950 
Working Tolerances 5950 
The back chamber design 5950 
Very good 5950 
It is true, but…. 5950 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5949 
Here is my mouth. 5949 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5949 
The Fs of AKs 5949 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5949 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5949 
Sail 5949 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5948 
You are wrong. 5948 
The material of displacement plug 5948 
And the driver-winner is… 5948 
Pre-Fab 5948 
The horn will be mounted ... 5948 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5947 
4 Sides + 5947 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5946 
The Solution. 5946 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5946 
An US pomposity complex? 5946 
The back chamber predictions 5946 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5946 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5946 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5946 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5946 
Good Vibrations 5946 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5946 
Horn Thickness 5946 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5946 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5946 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5946 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5946 
Parallel what? 5946 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5945 
Sources 5945 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5945 
Damping materials revisited 5945 
How to finish my midbass horn 5945 
Wallpaper adhesion 5944 
Bright idea 5944 
I do like the brickish finish. 5944 
Venetion slats 5944 
The Ventilation subject. 5944 
How long will it take? 5944 
Insulation and horn mouth 5944 
Insulation et al. 5943 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5943 
GOD MACHINE 5943 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5943 
Ice dams - experience 5943 
Horn as "Room" 5943 
Agreed 5943 
Morons vs. Criminals 5943 
The insulation controversy. 5942 
The Conditioned Space 5942 
Ventilation 5942 
R-Value and Damping Options 5942 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5942 
Back To The Stone Age 5942 
Did you just woke up? 5942 
Yes I looked 5942 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5942 
Knocking the horn. 5942 
The current building plans. 5942 
The ideas needed. 5942 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5941 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5941 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5941 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5941 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5941 
The Stressed Skin 5941 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5941 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5941 
I do not know. 5940 
Status report #.... 5940 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5939 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5939 
It will be more clear with time. 5939 
The insulation… 5939 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5938 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5935 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5935 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5935 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5935 
Where? 5935 
From Center Photo: 5934 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5934 
The Third section argument 5934 
The front baffle. 5932 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5932 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5926 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5919 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5918 
What to do with mouth cover? 5917 
What to wear... 5917 
A lot of work.... 5916 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5913 
Cover/no cover 5912 
Red lights 5912 
Whores? 5912 
The Cat-House 5912 
The Red lights in whorns... 5912 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5912 
Dinner 5911 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5911 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5911 
Access to the bolts 5911 
The first test is comming today. 5910 
Sound impressions? 5910 
Some data, impressions and me. 5910 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5909 
A driver of some sort? 5909 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5909 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5908 
MiniDSP 5908 
Got a test croosover. 5908 
My horn trivia 5908 
Steps rather 5908 
The traps. 5907 
Eventually!!! 5907 
My favorite quote in this post: 5907 
Yep, it was me… 5907 
The second horn is rising… 5907 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5907 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5906 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5906 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5906 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5906 
What am I missing? 5906 
How to do my back chamber. 5906 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5906 
Babysitting the foam 5906 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5906 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5906 
Foam Expansion 5906 
Bite into it 5905 
Getting down with impedance 5905 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5905 
Added mass resonance 5905 
Resonance frequency and mass 5905 
La resistance 5905 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5901 
End of the project plan 5899 
Again, too much work… 5898 
Variable resonances 5898 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5898 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5898 
A word of warning and some comments. 5897 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5895 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5895 
Sanding prep for living 5895 
Too late . 5895 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5895 
Ciare car hifi 5894 
Eighteensound 5894 
The Second major milestone. 5894 
Better to be safe 5893 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5893 
Well That You Are Concerned 5893 
Sliding it in 5893 
2 people job? 5893 
The final few inches 5893 
Think Long and Hard 5893 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5893 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5893 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5893 
How to decupled horn from frame 5893 
Decoupling 5893 
Decoupling II 5892 
Pneumatic? 5892 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5892 
Silent blocks? 5892 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5892 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5892 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5892 
Straps and shocks 5892 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5892 
Weenie 5891 
The horn painting job 5891 
Romy the cork 5891 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5891 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5891 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5891 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5891 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5890 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5890 
Getting hectic. 5890 
Quick stuff job 5890 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5890 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5890 
Jessie, this is funny. 5890 
Toxic lube 5890 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5890 
The back chambers are done. 5889 
67Hz ? 5889 
Can you remind us.... 5889 
Nil risk 5889 
Chemical Wasteland 5889 
Sand. 5889 
Not decoupler but damper. 5889 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5889 
This project is on fire! 5889 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5889 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5889 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5888 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5888 
Monument 5888 
Stuning... 5888 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5888 
Reflections (sound) 5887 
Acrylate 5887 
Shaker interface 5887 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5887 
Surround 5887 
Door trim 5887 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5887 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5887 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5886 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5886 
Insulation 5885 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5885 
Condensation is the problem 5885 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5885 
Insulation 5884 
Monitoring moisture. 5884 
Moisture 5884 
Earlier in This Thread 5884 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5884 
Boots on the Ground 5884 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5884 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5882 
The ego time capsule. 5881 
Temptations!!! 5880 
The first shaking test. 5878 
The very right color. 5878 
Steps 5877 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5877 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5877 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5876 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5876 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5876 
Remote controlled LED 5875 
Giant robot halloween lights 5875 
The horns are officially opened. 5875 
School is in session 5875 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5874 
Horn trauma 5874 
About the foam 5874 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5874 
Cone-foam coupling 5874 
Misbehaving horns. 5874 
Wired 5874 
How to localize the problem 5874 
The possible cause 5874 
Impedance test the way you done it 5874 
The another day of midbass. 5873 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5873 
Let get some practical perspective. 5873 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5873 
Good signs 5873 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5872 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5872 
Ouch!... More please! 5872 
The first thing first. 5872 
Upper bass HP filter 5872 
Wipe Out 5872 
The midbass first. 5871 
The fascinating time 5871 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5870 
Midbass nasal sound 5870 
A new good configuration. 5870 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5869 
The Sliding Scale 5869 
A time for ULF... 5869 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5869 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5869 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5869 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5869 
Yup yup yup yup 5868 
Beringer x-overs 5868 
That is what I was hopping. 5866 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5866 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5865 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5865 
The dark side of all notes 5865 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5865 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5865 
AKA, Servo? 5865 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5864 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5864 
Shaping the Imagination 5864 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5864 
The fun time eventually. 5862 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5859 
Something is not right 5859 
A few howevers, as usually. 5859 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5858 
Talking about the midbass…. 5856 
Something is right. 5854 
Verifying the driver choice 5853 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5853 
The final Midbass 5848 
Official end of the midbass project… 5848 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5848 
…and the few Thanks…. 5847 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5844 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5844 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5844 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5844 
How much more can I let it go? 5839 
The next steps of progress. 5837 
Blurred transients? 5836 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5836 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5836 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5836 
Semantics and other stories 5836 
The 2dB battle…. 5833 
Ok, it is done. 5832 
Large vs. small. 5829 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5826 
Modesty 5816 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5805 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5767 
Environmental inspection. 5753 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5705 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5704 
Honk idea... 5701 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5686 
Obstetrician 5685 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5681 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5591 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5500 
To hear my midbass horn? 5437 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 5348 
Mahler sound 5348 
Default properly balanced sound. 5348 
Will horns make the difference? 5347 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 5347 
Surprising and Interesting development … 5080 
What could I say? 5057 
Dissonant use 5057 
Sell "as is" 5053 
There won't be a need for it 5051 
Congratulations 5051 
A grander scheme in mind… 5051 
The mind boggles ... 5050 
Audio as an interactive subject. 5050 
Selling argument 5044 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4900 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4900 
Simulated suspension evolution 4900 
Humidity 4900 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4899 
Recharging the Alnico 4899 
How nice! 4899 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4899 
Planning and wishing.. 4899 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4899 
What was absolute wonderful… 4899 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4899 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4898 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4897 
It looks like how it works 4897 
The end 3827 
Many share 3827 
A new house --- again 3606 
Vitavox 15/40 3109 
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