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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5826 
Encouragement 5825 
The divers testing. 5825 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5824 
Test 5824 
To Wind Up Where? 5824 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5824 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5823 
What Next 5823 
The mid-bass laboratory 5822 
It is a different question. 5822 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5816 
Triangular midbass horns 5816 
Suspending Disbelief 5816 
Some practical strategic considerations 5803 
MB Horns Project 5803 
Another consideration – the cable length 5802 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5802 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5800 
The triangle horns in attic 5800 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5800 
About the triangular horns corners… 5800 
4-sided triangle 5800 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5800 
Bass from behind 5800 
K-Horns 5800 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5800 
The wall-loaded horns? 5800 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5800 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5800 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5800 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5799 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5799 
How does this phase work? 5799 
Some very raw numbers 5799 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5798 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5798 
Mid Bass Project 5798 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5797 
How to drive a long cable. 5794 
Personal Bias 5794 
There were no big red flags 5792 
The Swidish 30Hz 5792 
Who world believe! 5792 
Good news! 5791 
Two open questions. 5790 
Transition piece 5790 
About my horn skeleton. 5790 
Transitions 5790 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5790 
Boston wood guy 5790 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5790 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5790 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5790 
Possible option for fabrication 5789 
It is about softness, stupid. 5789 
Transition Zone 5789 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5789 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5788 
A good modeling software? 5788 
CAD software 5787 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5779 
The "maket" time. 5772 
Maket 5772 
! 5772 
OK, it is this Friday! 5772 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5772 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5772 
The wood source is found 5771 
OK, it is started.... 5769 
Dust to Dust 5769 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5769 
2001 Space Odasy 5769 
Interesting space 5768 
The opened up space. 5768 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5768 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5768 
Rear Chamber Access 5768 
California 5768 
Bass time domain 5768 
2001--2010 5768 
Some answers. 5768 
The Iron Rod 5768 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5768 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5767 
It is that I want. 5767 
Working Tolerances 5767 
The back chamber design 5767 
Very good 5767 
It is true, but…. 5767 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5766 
Here is my mouth. 5766 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5766 
The Fs of AKs 5766 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5766 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5766 
Sail 5766 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5765 
You are wrong. 5765 
The material of displacement plug 5765 
And the driver-winner is… 5765 
Pre-Fab 5765 
The horn will be mounted ... 5765 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5764 
4 Sides + 5764 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5763 
The Solution. 5763 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5763 
An US pomposity complex? 5763 
The back chamber predictions 5763 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5763 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5763 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5763 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5763 
Good Vibrations 5763 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5763 
Horn Thickness 5763 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5763 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5763 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5763 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5763 
Parallel what? 5763 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5762 
Sources 5762 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5762 
Damping materials revisited 5762 
How to finish my midbass horn 5762 
Wallpaper adhesion 5761 
Bright idea 5761 
I do like the brickish finish. 5761 
Venetion slats 5761 
The Ventilation subject. 5761 
How long will it take? 5761 
Insulation and horn mouth 5761 
Insulation et al. 5760 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5760 
GOD MACHINE 5760 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5760 
Ice dams - experience 5760 
Horn as "Room" 5760 
Agreed 5760 
Morons vs. Criminals 5760 
The insulation controversy. 5759 
The Conditioned Space 5759 
Ventilation 5759 
R-Value and Damping Options 5759 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5759 
Back To The Stone Age 5759 
Did you just woke up? 5759 
Yes I looked 5759 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5759 
Knocking the horn. 5759 
The current building plans. 5759 
The ideas needed. 5759 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5758 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5758 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5758 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5758 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5758 
The Stressed Skin 5758 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5758 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5758 
I do not know. 5757 
Status report #.... 5757 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5756 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5756 
It will be more clear with time. 5756 
The insulation… 5756 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5755 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5752 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5752 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5752 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5752 
Where? 5752 
From Center Photo: 5751 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5751 
The Third section argument 5751 
The front baffle. 5749 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5749 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5743 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5736 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5735 
What to do with mouth cover? 5734 
What to wear... 5734 
A lot of work.... 5733 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5730 
Cover/no cover 5729 
Red lights 5729 
Whores? 5729 
The Cat-House 5729 
The Red lights in whorns... 5729 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5729 
Dinner 5728 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5728 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5728 
Access to the bolts 5728 
The first test is comming today. 5727 
Sound impressions? 5727 
Some data, impressions and me. 5727 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5726 
A driver of some sort? 5726 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5726 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5725 
MiniDSP 5725 
Got a test croosover. 5725 
My horn trivia 5725 
Steps rather 5725 
The traps. 5724 
Eventually!!! 5724 
My favorite quote in this post: 5724 
Yep, it was me… 5724 
The second horn is rising… 5724 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5724 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5723 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5723 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5723 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5723 
What am I missing? 5723 
How to do my back chamber. 5723 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5723 
Babysitting the foam 5723 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5723 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5723 
Foam Expansion 5723 
Bite into it 5722 
Getting down with impedance 5722 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5722 
Added mass resonance 5722 
Resonance frequency and mass 5722 
La resistance 5722 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5718 
End of the project plan 5716 
Again, too much work… 5715 
Variable resonances 5715 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5715 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5715 
A word of warning and some comments. 5714 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5712 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5712 
Sanding prep for living 5712 
Too late . 5712 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5712 
Ciare car hifi 5711 
Eighteensound 5711 
The Second major milestone. 5711 
Better to be safe 5710 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5710 
Well That You Are Concerned 5710 
Sliding it in 5710 
2 people job? 5710 
The final few inches 5710 
Think Long and Hard 5710 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5710 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5710 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5710 
How to decupled horn from frame 5710 
Decoupling 5710 
Decoupling II 5709 
Pneumatic? 5709 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5709 
Silent blocks? 5709 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5709 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5709 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5709 
Straps and shocks 5709 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5709 
Weenie 5708 
The horn painting job 5708 
Romy the cork 5708 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5708 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5708 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5708 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5708 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5707 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5707 
Getting hectic. 5707 
Quick stuff job 5707 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5707 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5707 
Jessie, this is funny. 5707 
Toxic lube 5707 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5707 
The back chambers are done. 5706 
67Hz ? 5706 
Can you remind us.... 5706 
Nil risk 5706 
Chemical Wasteland 5706 
Sand. 5706 
Not decoupler but damper. 5706 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5706 
This project is on fire! 5706 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5706 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5706 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5705 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5705 
Monument 5705 
Stuning... 5705 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5705 
Reflections (sound) 5704 
Acrylate 5704 
Shaker interface 5704 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5704 
Surround 5704 
Door trim 5704 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5704 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5704 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5703 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5703 
Insulation 5702 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5702 
Condensation is the problem 5702 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5702 
Insulation 5701 
Monitoring moisture. 5701 
Moisture 5701 
Earlier in This Thread 5701 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5701 
Boots on the Ground 5701 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5701 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5699 
The ego time capsule. 5698 
Temptations!!! 5697 
The first shaking test. 5695 
The very right color. 5695 
Steps 5694 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5694 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5694 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5693 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5693 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5693 
Remote controlled LED 5692 
Giant robot halloween lights 5692 
The horns are officially opened. 5692 
School is in session 5692 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5691 
Horn trauma 5691 
About the foam 5691 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5691 
Cone-foam coupling 5691 
Misbehaving horns. 5691 
Wired 5691 
How to localize the problem 5691 
The possible cause 5691 
Impedance test the way you done it 5691 
The another day of midbass. 5690 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5690 
Let get some practical perspective. 5690 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5690 
Good signs 5690 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5689 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5689 
Ouch!... More please! 5689 
The first thing first. 5689 
Upper bass HP filter 5689 
Wipe Out 5689 
The midbass first. 5688 
The fascinating time 5688 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5687 
Midbass nasal sound 5687 
A new good configuration. 5687 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5686 
The Sliding Scale 5686 
A time for ULF... 5686 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5686 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5686 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5686 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5686 
Yup yup yup yup 5685 
Beringer x-overs 5685 
That is what I was hopping. 5683 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5683 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5682 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5682 
The dark side of all notes 5682 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5682 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5682 
AKA, Servo? 5682 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5681 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5681 
Shaping the Imagination 5681 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5681 
The fun time eventually. 5679 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5676 
Something is not right 5676 
A few howevers, as usually. 5676 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5675 
Talking about the midbass…. 5673 
Something is right. 5671 
Verifying the driver choice 5670 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5670 
The final Midbass 5665 
Official end of the midbass project… 5665 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5665 
…and the few Thanks…. 5664 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5661 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5661 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5661 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5661 
How much more can I let it go? 5656 
The next steps of progress. 5654 
Blurred transients? 5653 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5653 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5653 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5653 
Semantics and other stories 5653 
The 2dB battle…. 5650 
Ok, it is done. 5649 
Large vs. small. 5646 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5643 
Modesty 5633 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5622 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5584 
Environmental inspection. 5570 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5522 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5521 
Honk idea... 5518 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5503 
Obstetrician 5502 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5498 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5408 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5317 
To hear my midbass horn? 5254 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 5165 
Mahler sound 5165 
Default properly balanced sound. 5165 
Will horns make the difference? 5164 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 5164 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4897 
What could I say? 4874 
Dissonant use 4874 
Sell "as is" 4870 
There won't be a need for it 4868 
Congratulations 4868 
A grander scheme in mind… 4868 
The mind boggles ... 4867 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4867 
Selling argument 4861 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4717 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4717 
Simulated suspension evolution 4717 
Humidity 4717 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4716 
Recharging the Alnico 4716 
How nice! 4716 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4716 
Planning and wishing.. 4716 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4716 
What was absolute wonderful… 4716 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4716 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4715 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4714 
It looks like how it works 4714 
The end 3644 
Many share 3644 
A new house --- again 3423 
Vitavox 15/40 2926 
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