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Legends: "Week" - last week posts, "Bold" - entered last 48 hours.
Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5496 
Encouragement 5495 
The divers testing. 5495 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5494 
Test 5494 
To Wind Up Where? 5494 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5494 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5493 
What Next 5493 
The mid-bass laboratory 5492 
It is a different question. 5492 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5486 
Triangular midbass horns 5486 
Suspending Disbelief 5486 
Some practical strategic considerations 5473 
MB Horns Project 5473 
Another consideration – the cable length 5472 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5472 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5470 
The triangle horns in attic 5470 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5470 
About the triangular horns corners… 5470 
4-sided triangle 5470 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5470 
Bass from behind 5470 
K-Horns 5470 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5470 
The wall-loaded horns? 5470 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5470 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5470 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5470 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5469 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5469 
How does this phase work? 5469 
Some very raw numbers 5469 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5468 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5468 
Mid Bass Project 5468 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5467 
How to drive a long cable. 5464 
Personal Bias 5464 
There were no big red flags 5462 
The Swidish 30Hz 5462 
Who world believe! 5462 
Good news! 5461 
Two open questions. 5460 
Transition piece 5460 
About my horn skeleton. 5460 
Transitions 5460 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5460 
Boston wood guy 5460 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5460 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5460 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5460 
Possible option for fabrication 5459 
It is about softness, stupid. 5459 
Transition Zone 5459 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5459 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5458 
A good modeling software? 5458 
CAD software 5457 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5449 
The "maket" time. 5442 
Maket 5442 
! 5442 
OK, it is this Friday! 5442 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5442 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5442 
The wood source is found 5441 
OK, it is started.... 5439 
Dust to Dust 5439 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5439 
2001 Space Odasy 5439 
Interesting space 5438 
The opened up space. 5438 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5438 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5438 
Rear Chamber Access 5438 
California 5438 
Bass time domain 5438 
2001--2010 5438 
Some answers. 5438 
The Iron Rod 5438 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5438 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5437 
It is that I want. 5437 
Working Tolerances 5437 
The back chamber design 5437 
Very good 5437 
It is true, but…. 5437 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5436 
Here is my mouth. 5436 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5436 
The Fs of AKs 5436 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5436 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5436 
Sail 5436 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5435 
You are wrong. 5435 
The material of displacement plug 5435 
And the driver-winner is… 5435 
Pre-Fab 5435 
The horn will be mounted ... 5435 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5434 
4 Sides + 5434 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5433 
The Solution. 5433 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5433 
An US pomposity complex? 5433 
The back chamber predictions 5433 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5433 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5433 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5433 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5433 
Good Vibrations 5433 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5433 
Horn Thickness 5433 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5433 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5433 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5433 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5433 
Parallel what? 5433 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5432 
Sources 5432 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5432 
Damping materials revisited 5432 
How to finish my midbass horn 5432 
Wallpaper adhesion 5431 
Bright idea 5431 
I do like the brickish finish. 5431 
Venetion slats 5431 
The Ventilation subject. 5431 
How long will it take? 5431 
Insulation and horn mouth 5431 
Insulation et al. 5430 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5430 
GOD MACHINE 5430 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5430 
Ice dams - experience 5430 
Horn as "Room" 5430 
Agreed 5430 
Morons vs. Criminals 5430 
The insulation controversy. 5429 
The Conditioned Space 5429 
Ventilation 5429 
R-Value and Damping Options 5429 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5429 
Back To The Stone Age 5429 
Did you just woke up? 5429 
Yes I looked 5429 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5429 
Knocking the horn. 5429 
The current building plans. 5429 
The ideas needed. 5429 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5428 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5428 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5428 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5428 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5428 
The Stressed Skin 5428 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5428 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5428 
I do not know. 5427 
Status report #.... 5427 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5426 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5426 
It will be more clear with time. 5426 
The insulation… 5426 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5425 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5422 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5422 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5422 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5422 
Where? 5422 
From Center Photo: 5421 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5421 
The Third section argument 5421 
The front baffle. 5419 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5419 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5413 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5406 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5405 
What to do with mouth cover? 5404 
What to wear... 5404 
A lot of work.... 5403 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5400 
Cover/no cover 5399 
Red lights 5399 
Whores? 5399 
The Cat-House 5399 
The Red lights in whorns... 5399 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5399 
Dinner 5398 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5398 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5398 
Access to the bolts 5398 
The first test is comming today. 5397 
Sound impressions? 5397 
Some data, impressions and me. 5397 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5396 
A driver of some sort? 5396 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5396 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5395 
MiniDSP 5395 
Got a test croosover. 5395 
My horn trivia 5395 
Steps rather 5395 
The traps. 5394 
Eventually!!! 5394 
My favorite quote in this post: 5394 
Yep, it was me… 5394 
The second horn is rising… 5394 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5394 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5393 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5393 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5393 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5393 
What am I missing? 5393 
How to do my back chamber. 5393 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5393 
Babysitting the foam 5393 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5393 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5393 
Foam Expansion 5393 
Bite into it 5392 
Getting down with impedance 5392 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5392 
Added mass resonance 5392 
Resonance frequency and mass 5392 
La resistance 5392 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5388 
End of the project plan 5386 
Again, too much work… 5385 
Variable resonances 5385 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5385 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5385 
A word of warning and some comments. 5384 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5382 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5382 
Sanding prep for living 5382 
Too late . 5382 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5382 
Ciare car hifi 5381 
Eighteensound 5381 
The Second major milestone. 5381 
Better to be safe 5380 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5380 
Well That You Are Concerned 5380 
Sliding it in 5380 
2 people job? 5380 
The final few inches 5380 
Think Long and Hard 5380 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5380 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5380 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5380 
How to decupled horn from frame 5380 
Decoupling 5380 
Decoupling II 5379 
Pneumatic? 5379 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5379 
Silent blocks? 5379 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5379 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5379 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5379 
Straps and shocks 5379 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5379 
Weenie 5378 
The horn painting job 5378 
Romy the cork 5378 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5378 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5378 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5378 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5378 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5377 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5377 
Getting hectic. 5377 
Quick stuff job 5377 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5377 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5377 
Jessie, this is funny. 5377 
Toxic lube 5377 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5377 
The back chambers are done. 5376 
67Hz ? 5376 
Can you remind us.... 5376 
Nil risk 5376 
Chemical Wasteland 5376 
Sand. 5376 
Not decoupler but damper. 5376 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5376 
This project is on fire! 5376 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5376 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5376 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5375 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5375 
Monument 5375 
Stuning... 5375 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5375 
Reflections (sound) 5374 
Acrylate 5374 
Shaker interface 5374 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5374 
Surround 5374 
Door trim 5374 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5374 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5374 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5373 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5373 
Insulation 5372 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5372 
Condensation is the problem 5372 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5372 
Insulation 5371 
Monitoring moisture. 5371 
Moisture 5371 
Earlier in This Thread 5371 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5371 
Boots on the Ground 5371 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5371 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5369 
The ego time capsule. 5368 
Temptations!!! 5367 
The first shaking test. 5365 
The very right color. 5365 
Steps 5364 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5364 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5364 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5363 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5363 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5363 
Remote controlled LED 5362 
Giant robot halloween lights 5362 
The horns are officially opened. 5362 
School is in session 5362 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5361 
Horn trauma 5361 
About the foam 5361 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5361 
Cone-foam coupling 5361 
Misbehaving horns. 5361 
Wired 5361 
How to localize the problem 5361 
The possible cause 5361 
Impedance test the way you done it 5361 
The another day of midbass. 5360 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5360 
Let get some practical perspective. 5360 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5360 
Good signs 5360 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5359 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5359 
Ouch!... More please! 5359 
The first thing first. 5359 
Upper bass HP filter 5359 
Wipe Out 5359 
The midbass first. 5358 
The fascinating time 5358 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5357 
Midbass nasal sound 5357 
A new good configuration. 5357 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5356 
The Sliding Scale 5356 
A time for ULF... 5356 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5356 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5356 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5356 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5356 
Yup yup yup yup 5355 
Beringer x-overs 5355 
That is what I was hopping. 5353 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5353 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5352 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5352 
The dark side of all notes 5352 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5352 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5352 
AKA, Servo? 5352 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5351 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5351 
Shaping the Imagination 5351 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5351 
The fun time eventually. 5349 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5346 
Something is not right 5346 
A few howevers, as usually. 5346 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5345 
Talking about the midbass…. 5343 
Something is right. 5341 
Verifying the driver choice 5340 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5340 
The final Midbass 5335 
Official end of the midbass project… 5335 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5335 
…and the few Thanks…. 5334 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5331 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5331 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5331 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5331 
How much more can I let it go? 5326 
The next steps of progress. 5324 
Blurred transients? 5323 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5323 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5323 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5323 
Semantics and other stories 5323 
The 2dB battle…. 5320 
Ok, it is done. 5319 
Large vs. small. 5316 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5313 
Modesty 5303 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5292 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5254 
Environmental inspection. 5240 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5192 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5191 
Honk idea... 5188 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5173 
Obstetrician 5172 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5168 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5078 
The midbass channel. A year later. 4987 
To hear my midbass horn? 4924 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 4835 
Mahler sound 4835 
Default properly balanced sound. 4835 
Will horns make the difference? 4834 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 4834 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4567 
What could I say? 4544 
Dissonant use 4544 
Sell "as is" 4540 
There won't be a need for it 4538 
Congratulations 4538 
A grander scheme in mind… 4538 
The mind boggles ... 4537 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4537 
Selling argument 4531 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4387 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4387 
Simulated suspension evolution 4387 
Humidity 4387 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4386 
Recharging the Alnico 4386 
How nice! 4386 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4386 
Planning and wishing.. 4386 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4386 
What was absolute wonderful… 4386 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4386 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4385 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4384 
It looks like how it works 4384 
The end 3314 
Many share 3314 
A new house --- again 3093 
Vitavox 15/40 2596 
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