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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5596 
Encouragement 5595 
The divers testing. 5595 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5594 
Test 5594 
To Wind Up Where? 5594 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5594 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5593 
What Next 5593 
The mid-bass laboratory 5592 
It is a different question. 5592 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5586 
Triangular midbass horns 5586 
Suspending Disbelief 5586 
Some practical strategic considerations 5573 
MB Horns Project 5573 
Another consideration – the cable length 5572 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5572 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5570 
The triangle horns in attic 5570 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5570 
About the triangular horns corners… 5570 
4-sided triangle 5570 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5570 
Bass from behind 5570 
K-Horns 5570 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5570 
The wall-loaded horns? 5570 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5570 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5570 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5570 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5569 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5569 
How does this phase work? 5569 
Some very raw numbers 5569 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5568 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5568 
Mid Bass Project 5568 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5567 
How to drive a long cable. 5564 
Personal Bias 5564 
There were no big red flags 5562 
The Swidish 30Hz 5562 
Who world believe! 5562 
Good news! 5561 
Two open questions. 5560 
Transition piece 5560 
About my horn skeleton. 5560 
Transitions 5560 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5560 
Boston wood guy 5560 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5560 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5560 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5560 
Possible option for fabrication 5559 
It is about softness, stupid. 5559 
Transition Zone 5559 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5559 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5558 
A good modeling software? 5558 
CAD software 5557 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5549 
The "maket" time. 5542 
Maket 5542 
! 5542 
OK, it is this Friday! 5542 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5542 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5542 
The wood source is found 5541 
OK, it is started.... 5539 
Dust to Dust 5539 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5539 
2001 Space Odasy 5539 
Interesting space 5538 
The opened up space. 5538 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5538 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5538 
Rear Chamber Access 5538 
California 5538 
Bass time domain 5538 
2001--2010 5538 
Some answers. 5538 
The Iron Rod 5538 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5538 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5537 
It is that I want. 5537 
Working Tolerances 5537 
The back chamber design 5537 
Very good 5537 
It is true, but…. 5537 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5536 
Here is my mouth. 5536 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5536 
The Fs of AKs 5536 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5536 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5536 
Sail 5536 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5535 
You are wrong. 5535 
The material of displacement plug 5535 
And the driver-winner is… 5535 
Pre-Fab 5535 
The horn will be mounted ... 5535 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5534 
4 Sides + 5534 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5533 
The Solution. 5533 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5533 
An US pomposity complex? 5533 
The back chamber predictions 5533 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5533 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5533 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5533 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5533 
Good Vibrations 5533 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5533 
Horn Thickness 5533 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5533 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5533 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5533 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5533 
Parallel what? 5533 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5532 
Sources 5532 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5532 
Damping materials revisited 5532 
How to finish my midbass horn 5532 
Wallpaper adhesion 5531 
Bright idea 5531 
I do like the brickish finish. 5531 
Venetion slats 5531 
The Ventilation subject. 5531 
How long will it take? 5531 
Insulation and horn mouth 5531 
Insulation et al. 5530 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5530 
GOD MACHINE 5530 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5530 
Ice dams - experience 5530 
Horn as "Room" 5530 
Agreed 5530 
Morons vs. Criminals 5530 
The insulation controversy. 5529 
The Conditioned Space 5529 
Ventilation 5529 
R-Value and Damping Options 5529 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5529 
Back To The Stone Age 5529 
Did you just woke up? 5529 
Yes I looked 5529 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5529 
Knocking the horn. 5529 
The current building plans. 5529 
The ideas needed. 5529 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5528 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5528 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5528 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5528 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5528 
The Stressed Skin 5528 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5528 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5528 
I do not know. 5527 
Status report #.... 5527 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5526 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5526 
It will be more clear with time. 5526 
The insulation… 5526 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5525 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5522 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5522 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5522 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5522 
Where? 5522 
From Center Photo: 5521 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5521 
The Third section argument 5521 
The front baffle. 5519 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5519 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5513 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5506 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5505 
What to do with mouth cover? 5504 
What to wear... 5504 
A lot of work.... 5503 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5500 
Cover/no cover 5499 
Red lights 5499 
Whores? 5499 
The Cat-House 5499 
The Red lights in whorns... 5499 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5499 
Dinner 5498 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5498 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5498 
Access to the bolts 5498 
The first test is comming today. 5497 
Sound impressions? 5497 
Some data, impressions and me. 5497 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5496 
A driver of some sort? 5496 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5496 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5495 
MiniDSP 5495 
Got a test croosover. 5495 
My horn trivia 5495 
Steps rather 5495 
The traps. 5494 
Eventually!!! 5494 
My favorite quote in this post: 5494 
Yep, it was me… 5494 
The second horn is rising… 5494 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5494 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5493 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5493 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5493 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5493 
What am I missing? 5493 
How to do my back chamber. 5493 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5493 
Babysitting the foam 5493 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5493 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5493 
Foam Expansion 5493 
Bite into it 5492 
Getting down with impedance 5492 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5492 
Added mass resonance 5492 
Resonance frequency and mass 5492 
La resistance 5492 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5488 
End of the project plan 5486 
Again, too much work… 5485 
Variable resonances 5485 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5485 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5485 
A word of warning and some comments. 5484 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5482 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5482 
Sanding prep for living 5482 
Too late . 5482 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5482 
Ciare car hifi 5481 
Eighteensound 5481 
The Second major milestone. 5481 
Better to be safe 5480 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5480 
Well That You Are Concerned 5480 
Sliding it in 5480 
2 people job? 5480 
The final few inches 5480 
Think Long and Hard 5480 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5480 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5480 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5480 
How to decupled horn from frame 5480 
Decoupling 5480 
Decoupling II 5479 
Pneumatic? 5479 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5479 
Silent blocks? 5479 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5479 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5479 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5479 
Straps and shocks 5479 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5479 
Weenie 5478 
The horn painting job 5478 
Romy the cork 5478 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5478 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5478 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5478 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5478 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5477 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5477 
Getting hectic. 5477 
Quick stuff job 5477 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5477 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5477 
Jessie, this is funny. 5477 
Toxic lube 5477 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5477 
The back chambers are done. 5476 
67Hz ? 5476 
Can you remind us.... 5476 
Nil risk 5476 
Chemical Wasteland 5476 
Sand. 5476 
Not decoupler but damper. 5476 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5476 
This project is on fire! 5476 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5476 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5476 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5475 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5475 
Monument 5475 
Stuning... 5475 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5475 
Reflections (sound) 5474 
Acrylate 5474 
Shaker interface 5474 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5474 
Surround 5474 
Door trim 5474 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5474 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5474 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5473 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5473 
Insulation 5472 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5472 
Condensation is the problem 5472 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5472 
Insulation 5471 
Monitoring moisture. 5471 
Moisture 5471 
Earlier in This Thread 5471 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5471 
Boots on the Ground 5471 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5471 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5469 
The ego time capsule. 5468 
Temptations!!! 5467 
The first shaking test. 5465 
The very right color. 5465 
Steps 5464 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5464 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5464 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5463 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5463 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5463 
Remote controlled LED 5462 
Giant robot halloween lights 5462 
The horns are officially opened. 5462 
School is in session 5462 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5461 
Horn trauma 5461 
About the foam 5461 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5461 
Cone-foam coupling 5461 
Misbehaving horns. 5461 
Wired 5461 
How to localize the problem 5461 
The possible cause 5461 
Impedance test the way you done it 5461 
The another day of midbass. 5460 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5460 
Let get some practical perspective. 5460 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5460 
Good signs 5460 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5459 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5459 
Ouch!... More please! 5459 
The first thing first. 5459 
Upper bass HP filter 5459 
Wipe Out 5459 
The midbass first. 5458 
The fascinating time 5458 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5457 
Midbass nasal sound 5457 
A new good configuration. 5457 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5456 
The Sliding Scale 5456 
A time for ULF... 5456 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5456 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5456 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5456 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5456 
Yup yup yup yup 5455 
Beringer x-overs 5455 
That is what I was hopping. 5453 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5453 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5452 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5452 
The dark side of all notes 5452 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5452 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5452 
AKA, Servo? 5452 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5451 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5451 
Shaping the Imagination 5451 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5451 
The fun time eventually. 5449 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5446 
Something is not right 5446 
A few howevers, as usually. 5446 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5445 
Talking about the midbass…. 5443 
Something is right. 5441 
Verifying the driver choice 5440 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5440 
The final Midbass 5435 
Official end of the midbass project… 5435 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5435 
…and the few Thanks…. 5434 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5431 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5431 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5431 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5431 
How much more can I let it go? 5426 
The next steps of progress. 5424 
Blurred transients? 5423 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5423 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5423 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5423 
Semantics and other stories 5423 
The 2dB battle…. 5420 
Ok, it is done. 5419 
Large vs. small. 5416 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5413 
Modesty 5403 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5392 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5354 
Environmental inspection. 5340 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5292 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5291 
Honk idea... 5288 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5273 
Obstetrician 5272 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5268 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5178 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5087 
To hear my midbass horn? 5024 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 4935 
Mahler sound 4935 
Default properly balanced sound. 4935 
Will horns make the difference? 4934 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 4934 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4667 
What could I say? 4644 
Dissonant use 4644 
Sell "as is" 4640 
There won't be a need for it 4638 
Congratulations 4638 
A grander scheme in mind… 4638 
The mind boggles ... 4637 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4637 
Selling argument 4631 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4487 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4487 
Simulated suspension evolution 4487 
Humidity 4487 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4486 
Recharging the Alnico 4486 
How nice! 4486 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4486 
Planning and wishing.. 4486 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4486 
What was absolute wonderful… 4486 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4486 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4485 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4484 
It looks like how it works 4484 
The end 3414 
Many share 3414 
A new house --- again 3193 
Vitavox 15/40 2696 
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