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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5916 
Encouragement 5915 
The divers testing. 5915 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5914 
Test 5914 
To Wind Up Where? 5914 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5914 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5913 
What Next 5913 
The mid-bass laboratory 5912 
It is a different question. 5912 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5906 
Triangular midbass horns 5906 
Suspending Disbelief 5906 
Some practical strategic considerations 5893 
MB Horns Project 5893 
Another consideration – the cable length 5892 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5892 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5890 
The triangle horns in attic 5890 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5890 
About the triangular horns corners… 5890 
4-sided triangle 5890 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5890 
Bass from behind 5890 
K-Horns 5890 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5890 
The wall-loaded horns? 5890 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5890 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5890 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5890 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5889 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5889 
How does this phase work? 5889 
Some very raw numbers 5889 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5888 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5888 
Mid Bass Project 5888 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5887 
How to drive a long cable. 5884 
Personal Bias 5884 
There were no big red flags 5882 
The Swidish 30Hz 5882 
Who world believe! 5882 
Good news! 5881 
Two open questions. 5880 
Transition piece 5880 
About my horn skeleton. 5880 
Transitions 5880 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5880 
Boston wood guy 5880 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5880 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5880 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5880 
Possible option for fabrication 5879 
It is about softness, stupid. 5879 
Transition Zone 5879 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5879 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5878 
A good modeling software? 5878 
CAD software 5877 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5869 
The "maket" time. 5862 
Maket 5862 
! 5862 
OK, it is this Friday! 5862 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5862 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5862 
The wood source is found 5861 
OK, it is started.... 5859 
Dust to Dust 5859 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5859 
2001 Space Odasy 5859 
Interesting space 5858 
The opened up space. 5858 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5858 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5858 
Rear Chamber Access 5858 
California 5858 
Bass time domain 5858 
2001--2010 5858 
Some answers. 5858 
The Iron Rod 5858 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5858 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5857 
It is that I want. 5857 
Working Tolerances 5857 
The back chamber design 5857 
Very good 5857 
It is true, but…. 5857 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5856 
Here is my mouth. 5856 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5856 
The Fs of AKs 5856 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5856 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5856 
Sail 5856 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5855 
You are wrong. 5855 
The material of displacement plug 5855 
And the driver-winner is… 5855 
Pre-Fab 5855 
The horn will be mounted ... 5855 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5854 
4 Sides + 5854 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5853 
The Solution. 5853 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5853 
An US pomposity complex? 5853 
The back chamber predictions 5853 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5853 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5853 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5853 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5853 
Good Vibrations 5853 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5853 
Horn Thickness 5853 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5853 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5853 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5853 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5853 
Parallel what? 5853 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5852 
Sources 5852 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5852 
Damping materials revisited 5852 
How to finish my midbass horn 5852 
Wallpaper adhesion 5851 
Bright idea 5851 
I do like the brickish finish. 5851 
Venetion slats 5851 
The Ventilation subject. 5851 
How long will it take? 5851 
Insulation and horn mouth 5851 
Insulation et al. 5850 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5850 
GOD MACHINE 5850 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5850 
Ice dams - experience 5850 
Horn as "Room" 5850 
Agreed 5850 
Morons vs. Criminals 5850 
The insulation controversy. 5849 
The Conditioned Space 5849 
Ventilation 5849 
R-Value and Damping Options 5849 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5849 
Back To The Stone Age 5849 
Did you just woke up? 5849 
Yes I looked 5849 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5849 
Knocking the horn. 5849 
The current building plans. 5849 
The ideas needed. 5849 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5848 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5848 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5848 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5848 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5848 
The Stressed Skin 5848 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5848 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5848 
I do not know. 5847 
Status report #.... 5847 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5846 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5846 
It will be more clear with time. 5846 
The insulation… 5846 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5845 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5842 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5842 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5842 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5842 
Where? 5842 
From Center Photo: 5841 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5841 
The Third section argument 5841 
The front baffle. 5839 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5839 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5833 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5826 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5825 
What to do with mouth cover? 5824 
What to wear... 5824 
A lot of work.... 5823 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5820 
Cover/no cover 5819 
Red lights 5819 
Whores? 5819 
The Cat-House 5819 
The Red lights in whorns... 5819 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5819 
Dinner 5818 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5818 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5818 
Access to the bolts 5818 
The first test is comming today. 5817 
Sound impressions? 5817 
Some data, impressions and me. 5817 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5816 
A driver of some sort? 5816 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5816 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5815 
MiniDSP 5815 
Got a test croosover. 5815 
My horn trivia 5815 
Steps rather 5815 
The traps. 5814 
Eventually!!! 5814 
My favorite quote in this post: 5814 
Yep, it was me… 5814 
The second horn is rising… 5814 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5814 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5813 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5813 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5813 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5813 
What am I missing? 5813 
How to do my back chamber. 5813 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5813 
Babysitting the foam 5813 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5813 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5813 
Foam Expansion 5813 
Bite into it 5812 
Getting down with impedance 5812 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5812 
Added mass resonance 5812 
Resonance frequency and mass 5812 
La resistance 5812 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5808 
End of the project plan 5806 
Again, too much work… 5805 
Variable resonances 5805 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5805 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5805 
A word of warning and some comments. 5804 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5802 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5802 
Sanding prep for living 5802 
Too late . 5802 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5802 
Ciare car hifi 5801 
Eighteensound 5801 
The Second major milestone. 5801 
Better to be safe 5800 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5800 
Well That You Are Concerned 5800 
Sliding it in 5800 
2 people job? 5800 
The final few inches 5800 
Think Long and Hard 5800 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5800 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5800 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5800 
How to decupled horn from frame 5800 
Decoupling 5800 
Decoupling II 5799 
Pneumatic? 5799 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5799 
Silent blocks? 5799 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5799 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5799 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5799 
Straps and shocks 5799 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5799 
Weenie 5798 
The horn painting job 5798 
Romy the cork 5798 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5798 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5798 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5798 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5798 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5797 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5797 
Getting hectic. 5797 
Quick stuff job 5797 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5797 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5797 
Jessie, this is funny. 5797 
Toxic lube 5797 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5797 
The back chambers are done. 5796 
67Hz ? 5796 
Can you remind us.... 5796 
Nil risk 5796 
Chemical Wasteland 5796 
Sand. 5796 
Not decoupler but damper. 5796 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5796 
This project is on fire! 5796 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5796 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5796 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5795 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5795 
Monument 5795 
Stuning... 5795 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5795 
Reflections (sound) 5794 
Acrylate 5794 
Shaker interface 5794 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5794 
Surround 5794 
Door trim 5794 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5794 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5794 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5793 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5793 
Insulation 5792 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5792 
Condensation is the problem 5792 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5792 
Insulation 5791 
Monitoring moisture. 5791 
Moisture 5791 
Earlier in This Thread 5791 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5791 
Boots on the Ground 5791 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5791 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5789 
The ego time capsule. 5788 
Temptations!!! 5787 
The first shaking test. 5785 
The very right color. 5785 
Steps 5784 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5784 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5784 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5783 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5783 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5783 
Remote controlled LED 5782 
Giant robot halloween lights 5782 
The horns are officially opened. 5782 
School is in session 5782 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5781 
Horn trauma 5781 
About the foam 5781 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5781 
Cone-foam coupling 5781 
Misbehaving horns. 5781 
Wired 5781 
How to localize the problem 5781 
The possible cause 5781 
Impedance test the way you done it 5781 
The another day of midbass. 5780 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5780 
Let get some practical perspective. 5780 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5780 
Good signs 5780 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5779 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5779 
Ouch!... More please! 5779 
The first thing first. 5779 
Upper bass HP filter 5779 
Wipe Out 5779 
The midbass first. 5778 
The fascinating time 5778 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5777 
Midbass nasal sound 5777 
A new good configuration. 5777 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5776 
The Sliding Scale 5776 
A time for ULF... 5776 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5776 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5776 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5776 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5776 
Yup yup yup yup 5775 
Beringer x-overs 5775 
That is what I was hopping. 5773 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5773 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5772 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5772 
The dark side of all notes 5772 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5772 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5772 
AKA, Servo? 5772 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5771 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5771 
Shaping the Imagination 5771 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5771 
The fun time eventually. 5769 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5766 
Something is not right 5766 
A few howevers, as usually. 5766 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5765 
Talking about the midbass…. 5763 
Something is right. 5761 
Verifying the driver choice 5760 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5760 
The final Midbass 5755 
Official end of the midbass project… 5755 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5755 
…and the few Thanks…. 5754 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5751 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5751 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5751 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5751 
How much more can I let it go? 5746 
The next steps of progress. 5744 
Blurred transients? 5743 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5743 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5743 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5743 
Semantics and other stories 5743 
The 2dB battle…. 5740 
Ok, it is done. 5739 
Large vs. small. 5736 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5733 
Modesty 5723 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5712 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5674 
Environmental inspection. 5660 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5612 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5611 
Honk idea... 5608 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5593 
Obstetrician 5592 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5588 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5498 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5407 
To hear my midbass horn? 5344 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 5255 
Mahler sound 5255 
Default properly balanced sound. 5255 
Will horns make the difference? 5254 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 5254 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4987 
What could I say? 4964 
Dissonant use 4964 
Sell "as is" 4960 
There won't be a need for it 4958 
Congratulations 4958 
A grander scheme in mind… 4958 
The mind boggles ... 4957 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4957 
Selling argument 4951 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4807 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4807 
Simulated suspension evolution 4807 
Humidity 4807 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4806 
Recharging the Alnico 4806 
How nice! 4806 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4806 
Planning and wishing.. 4806 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4806 
What was absolute wonderful… 4806 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4806 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4805 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4804 
It looks like how it works 4804 
The end 3734 
Many share 3734 
A new house --- again 3513 
Vitavox 15/40 3016 
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