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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5091 
Encouragement 5090 
The divers testing. 5090 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5089 
Test 5089 
To Wind Up Where? 5089 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5089 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5088 
What Next 5088 
The mid-bass laboratory 5087 
It is a different question. 5087 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5081 
Triangular midbass horns 5081 
Suspending Disbelief 5081 
Some practical strategic considerations 5068 
MB Horns Project 5068 
Another consideration – the cable length 5067 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5067 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5065 
The triangle horns in attic 5065 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5065 
About the triangular horns corners… 5065 
4-sided triangle 5065 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5065 
Bass from behind 5065 
K-Horns 5065 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5065 
The wall-loaded horns? 5065 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5065 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5065 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5065 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5064 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5064 
How does this phase work? 5064 
Some very raw numbers 5064 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5063 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5063 
Mid Bass Project 5063 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5062 
How to drive a long cable. 5059 
Personal Bias 5059 
There were no big red flags 5057 
The Swidish 30Hz 5057 
Who world believe! 5057 
Good news! 5056 
Two open questions. 5055 
Transition piece 5055 
About my horn skeleton. 5055 
Transitions 5055 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5055 
Boston wood guy 5055 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5055 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5055 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5055 
Possible option for fabrication 5054 
It is about softness, stupid. 5054 
Transition Zone 5054 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5054 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5053 
A good modeling software? 5053 
CAD software 5052 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5044 
The "maket" time. 5037 
Maket 5037 
! 5037 
OK, it is this Friday! 5037 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5037 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5037 
The wood source is found 5036 
OK, it is started.... 5034 
Dust to Dust 5034 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5034 
2001 Space Odasy 5034 
Interesting space 5033 
The opened up space. 5033 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5033 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5033 
Rear Chamber Access 5033 
California 5033 
Bass time domain 5033 
2001--2010 5033 
Some answers. 5033 
The Iron Rod 5033 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5033 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5032 
It is that I want. 5032 
Working Tolerances 5032 
The back chamber design 5032 
Very good 5032 
It is true, but…. 5032 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5031 
Here is my mouth. 5031 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5031 
The Fs of AKs 5031 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5031 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5031 
Sail 5031 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5030 
You are wrong. 5030 
The material of displacement plug 5030 
And the driver-winner is… 5030 
Pre-Fab 5030 
The horn will be mounted ... 5030 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5029 
4 Sides + 5029 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5028 
The Solution. 5028 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5028 
An US pomposity complex? 5028 
The back chamber predictions 5028 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5028 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5028 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5028 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5028 
Good Vibrations 5028 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5028 
Horn Thickness 5028 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5028 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5028 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5028 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5028 
Parallel what? 5028 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5027 
Sources 5027 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5027 
Damping materials revisited 5027 
How to finish my midbass horn 5027 
Wallpaper adhesion 5026 
Bright idea 5026 
I do like the brickish finish. 5026 
Venetion slats 5026 
The Ventilation subject. 5026 
How long will it take? 5026 
Insulation and horn mouth 5026 
Insulation et al. 5025 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5025 
GOD MACHINE 5025 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5025 
Ice dams - experience 5025 
Horn as "Room" 5025 
Agreed 5025 
Morons vs. Criminals 5025 
The insulation controversy. 5024 
The Conditioned Space 5024 
Ventilation 5024 
R-Value and Damping Options 5024 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5024 
Back To The Stone Age 5024 
Did you just woke up? 5024 
Yes I looked 5024 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5024 
Knocking the horn. 5024 
The current building plans. 5024 
The ideas needed. 5024 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5023 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5023 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5023 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5023 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5023 
The Stressed Skin 5023 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5023 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5023 
I do not know. 5022 
Status report #.... 5022 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5021 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5021 
It will be more clear with time. 5021 
The insulation… 5021 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5020 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5017 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5017 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5017 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5017 
Where? 5017 
From Center Photo: 5016 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5016 
The Third section argument 5016 
The front baffle. 5014 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5014 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5008 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5001 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5000 
What to do with mouth cover? 4999 
What to wear... 4999 
A lot of work.... 4998 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 4995 
Cover/no cover 4994 
Red lights 4994 
Whores? 4994 
The Cat-House 4994 
The Red lights in whorns... 4994 
The connection between first and second section is done. 4994 
Dinner 4993 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 4993 
The type of the flange and some plans. 4993 
Access to the bolts 4993 
The first test is comming today. 4992 
Sound impressions? 4992 
Some data, impressions and me. 4992 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 4991 
A driver of some sort? 4991 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 4991 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 4990 
MiniDSP 4990 
Got a test croosover. 4990 
My horn trivia 4990 
Steps rather 4990 
The traps. 4989 
Eventually!!! 4989 
My favorite quote in this post: 4989 
Yep, it was me… 4989 
The second horn is rising… 4989 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 4989 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 4988 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 4988 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 4988 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 4988 
What am I missing? 4988 
How to do my back chamber. 4988 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 4988 
Babysitting the foam 4988 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 4988 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 4988 
Foam Expansion 4988 
Bite into it 4987 
Getting down with impedance 4987 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 4987 
Added mass resonance 4987 
Resonance frequency and mass 4987 
La resistance 4987 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 4983 
End of the project plan 4981 
Again, too much work… 4980 
Variable resonances 4980 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 4980 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 4980 
A word of warning and some comments. 4979 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 4977 
Another looks like wasted weekend 4977 
Sanding prep for living 4977 
Too late . 4977 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 4977 
Ciare car hifi 4976 
Eighteensound 4976 
The Second major milestone. 4976 
Better to be safe 4975 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 4975 
Well That You Are Concerned 4975 
Sliding it in 4975 
2 people job? 4975 
The final few inches 4975 
Think Long and Hard 4975 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 4975 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 4975 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 4975 
How to decupled horn from frame 4975 
Decoupling 4975 
Decoupling II 4974 
Pneumatic? 4974 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 4974 
Silent blocks? 4974 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 4974 
Decoupling: It takes balls 4974 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 4974 
Straps and shocks 4974 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 4974 
Weenie 4973 
The horn painting job 4973 
Romy the cork 4973 
Stairway to throat heaven. 4973 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 4973 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 4973 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 4973 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 4972 
If everything goes as I planed.... 4972 
Getting hectic. 4972 
Quick stuff job 4972 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 4972 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 4972 
Jessie, this is funny. 4972 
Toxic lube 4972 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 4972 
The back chambers are done. 4971 
67Hz ? 4971 
Can you remind us.... 4971 
Nil risk 4971 
Chemical Wasteland 4971 
Sand. 4971 
Not decoupler but damper. 4971 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 4971 
This project is on fire! 4971 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 4971 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 4971 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 4970 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 4970 
Monument 4970 
Stuning... 4970 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 4970 
Reflections (sound) 4969 
Acrylate 4969 
Shaker interface 4969 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 4969 
Surround 4969 
Door trim 4969 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 4969 
The drywall and horn conflict. 4969 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 4968 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 4968 
Insulation 4967 
I will see it myself during the winter… 4967 
Condensation is the problem 4967 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 4967 
Insulation 4966 
Monitoring moisture. 4966 
Moisture 4966 
Earlier in This Thread 4966 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 4966 
Boots on the Ground 4966 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 4966 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 4964 
The ego time capsule. 4963 
Temptations!!! 4962 
The first shaking test. 4960 
The very right color. 4960 
Steps 4959 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 4959 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 4959 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 4958 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 4958 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 4958 
Remote controlled LED 4957 
Giant robot halloween lights 4957 
The horns are officially opened. 4957 
School is in session 4957 
The Completion. Sad for far. 4956 
Horn trauma 4956 
About the foam 4956 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 4956 
Cone-foam coupling 4956 
Misbehaving horns. 4956 
Wired 4956 
How to localize the problem 4956 
The possible cause 4956 
Impedance test the way you done it 4956 
The another day of midbass. 4955 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 4955 
Let get some practical perspective. 4955 
In search of Midbass crossover. 4955 
Good signs 4955 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 4954 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 4954 
Ouch!... More please! 4954 
The first thing first. 4954 
Upper bass HP filter 4954 
Wipe Out 4954 
The midbass first. 4953 
The fascinating time 4953 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 4952 
Midbass nasal sound 4952 
A new good configuration. 4952 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 4951 
The Sliding Scale 4951 
A time for ULF... 4951 
Stumbling around in inductorville 4951 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 4951 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 4951 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 4951 
Yup yup yup yup 4950 
Beringer x-overs 4950 
That is what I was hopping. 4948 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 4948 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 4947 
Why elephants don't jump rope 4947 
The dark side of all notes 4947 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 4947 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 4947 
AKA, Servo? 4947 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 4946 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 4946 
Shaping the Imagination 4946 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 4946 
The fun time eventually. 4944 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 4941 
Something is not right 4941 
A few howevers, as usually. 4941 
The “Amused to Death” efect 4940 
Talking about the midbass…. 4938 
Something is right. 4936 
Verifying the driver choice 4935 
The driver choose is always a quandary 4935 
The final Midbass 4930 
Official end of the midbass project… 4930 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 4930 
…and the few Thanks…. 4929 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 4926 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 4926 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 4926 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 4926 
How much more can I let it go? 4921 
The next steps of progress. 4919 
Blurred transients? 4918 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 4918 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 4918 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 4918 
Semantics and other stories 4918 
The 2dB battle…. 4915 
Ok, it is done. 4914 
Large vs. small. 4911 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 4908 
Modesty 4898 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 4887 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 4849 
Environmental inspection. 4835 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 4787 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 4786 
Honk idea... 4783 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 4768 
Obstetrician 4767 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 4763 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 4673 
The midbass channel. A year later. 4582 
To hear my midbass horn? 4519 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 4430 
Mahler sound 4430 
Default properly balanced sound. 4430 
Will horns make the difference? 4429 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 4429 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4162 
What could I say? 4139 
Dissonant use 4139 
Sell "as is" 4135 
There won't be a need for it 4133 
Congratulations 4133 
A grander scheme in mind… 4133 
The mind boggles ... 4132 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4132 
Selling argument 4126 
Midbass horns, latest story. 3982 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 3982 
Simulated suspension evolution 3982 
Humidity 3982 
Trying to do it with less blood. 3981 
Recharging the Alnico 3981 
How nice! 3981 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 3981 
Planning and wishing.. 3981 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 3981 
What was absolute wonderful… 3981 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 3981 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 3980 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 3979 
It looks like how it works 3979 
The end 2909 
Many share 2909 
A new house --- again 2688 
Vitavox 15/40 2191 
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