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Jessie Dazzle Project 6759 
Cressaro Dellta or Macondo ++ 6758 
Rubberised chamber (off-axioms-topic) 6758 
Defying gravity 6758 
Sd/St 6758 
Responses to Romy Paul & Ronnie 6757 
Images : Construction Method 6757 
Follow up image 6757 
Ratio of diaphragm area to throat 6757 
Some points regarding your comments. 6757 
So, it only gets better... 6757 
Some subjective warnings about amplification layer. 6757 
Time line 6756 
Tractrix for LF 6756 
Tractrix vs. Exponential curve for lower frequencies. 6756 
Continued Development : Horns : Frame : Xovers 6756 
Process : Templates : Injection 6756 
A speaker frame with swappable arm-boards. 6756 
Just one word, Jessie: 6756 
Hypotraxponential Dilemma 6756 
Oh well... 6756 
Room as ally, integration, corner-loading and ... Virgin Mary 6756 
Got a picture? 6755 
As the World Turns 6755 
Tractrix vs. others. 6755 
Tractrix vs. others II 6755 
Guillotine frame 6754 
Corner-loaded horn option (correction) 6754 
Construction continued & Images 6754 
The might-be-changing RTA’s objectives. 6754 
The plaster horns: how will they hold bolts? 6754 
More on tractrix vs. the world 6754 
Fixation anchors 6754 
Taurus rising 6754 
Tractrix etc. 6754 
Horns, distortions, inadequacy of experiments etc… 6753 
Theory 6753 
My interests are very limited. 6753 
Tractrix etc. etc. 6753 
Pressures, nonlinearitys, known, unknown... 6753 
Tractix and so on. 6753 
The pressure transducing systems. 6753 
Technically Yes... & No 6752 
A playback system as a statement of mind. 6747 
The (hopefully) ever-evolving self 6742 
Centering the S2 (images) 6703 
The cool plaster idea, the Xenons and Summarits…. 6703 
Core diameter 6703 
Core diameter Part II 6703 
Rubber bucket! 6703 
I'll miss the cats 6647 
Wow, that was brutal even to read! 6647 
Lamm ML2 and Jessie’s system 6515 
Bi-amping & multi-tapping 6515 
The virtue of the experiment. 6515 
"Bottomless" bass 6515 
Photo update (part 1) 6434 
115 Hz made easy 6434 
The squirly women, horns and cactuses. 6434 
Primitive... 6433 
Past lives etc. 6433 
Finishing and texturing process 6433 
The finishing of nice horns. 6433 
Colors & surfacing 6433 
I did it a numbers of times myself… 6433 
Stepping up 6420 
The Fundamentals Channel and imaging altitude. 6420 
Where to stop lower MF 6420 
A lofty position 6420 
Meanwhile, back at the lab... 6419 
Playing around. 6419 
Cap dancing 6419 
It all might work. 6419 
Right again... 6418 
To emphasized a few points. 6418 
RTA break 6414 
Some thoughts while settling down. 6414 
Adjustable rear chamber (Photos) 6411 
The coupling from chamber to horn 6411 
Life at speaker-level (+ Photos) 6411 
Sealing material (rear chamber) 6411 
Seal 6411 
It is very stimulating to observe.... 6410 
Details : Mid & upper bass horns 6410 
Cramped tweeter & frame aesthetics 6410 
Sand man 6409 
Painless mid-bass horn (really!) 6406 
Fiber horn... 6404 
Bass horn : Throat transition & construction. 6404 
Better image of Ulf's horn 6404 
Correction : Length hypex vs exponential 6403 
A definitive assessment about long profiles. 6403 
Carbon... 6403 
Carbon front baffle 6403 
I wonder how much unexplored out there! 6403 
To fight or to work with resonances 6403 
The lightweight division 6403 
Decisions decisions 6402 
Off by a factor of 10 6402 
Carbon superiority 6402 
Rectangular horn.. 6401 
Composite sandwich 6401 
Calculations 6401 
Hornresponse... 6401 
Orientation of fibers 6401 
Orientation... 6399 
On second thought... 6399 
Talking Points 6399 
Paul.... 6399 
If I understand you correctly... 6399 
Will look 4it! 6399 
Inlays.... 6399 
Cult of the THBs 6398 
Carbon suppliers 6398 
Ribs & sandwiches 6398 
Shopping for carbon 6398 
The (W)hole of the Horn 6398 
CAD images 45Hz inner surfaces 6395 
Jessie went for the obnoxious horn 6395 
Process-related ramblings & remagnetizing 6393 
Remagnetwhat? 6393 
Images & some answers 45Hz horns 6392 
If I will be trying.... 6392 
Materials & position 6392 
Women and Bass Horns. 6376 
Distance? What distance? 6376 
She's more than a woman... 6376 
Suggestions on Vent for Back Chamber 6186 
A vented back chamber? Are you sure? 6186 
Rear chamber (fixed volume) 6186 
How to offset the “almost match” 6186 
Clarification 6185 
Air tight is right 6185 
Update : "Painless" Mid-bass Horn 6131 
You need ether a shorter women or a larger horn. 6131 
The Man 6131 
A few answers 6131 
Kalika & Cigarettes 6131 
Breathtaking! 6131 
Some follow ups… 6130 
Materials : 40Hz horn 6130 
Thanks 6130 
Car motor lifter recommendation... 6130 
Finding a home for midbass horns. 6040 
On the move 6039 
Yep, the real-estate sucks for audio freaks. 6039 
A listening room for Salvador Dali? 6039 
The great affair is to move 6039 
I like and I don’t 6039 
Voice coils & horn loading : Electrical restan... 5983 
Then vs. now. 5983 
Post edit 5983 
Balancing amplitude between drivers/horns 5869 
A few random comments. 5869 
Burning Sensitivity 5869 
Balancing act; Act II 5868 
The upperbass is very important 5868 
Adjust crossover-values? 5867 
Playing with crossover values and Fundamentals Cha... 5867 
I agree, but YMMV 5867 
Crossover balancing act; Act III 5853 
At Home with the Classic HE Riddle 5853 
Getting loaded 5852 
Upper-bass sweeps 5813 
The commentaries about the Upper-bass sweep. 5812 
Upper-bass as a system's fulcrum: Part I 5811 
The dally horn thoughts… 5811 
Cost of moving vs. cost of cashing. 5535 
Having your horn and eating it! 5534 
A certain amount of ballast 5534 
ULF enclosures (images) 5534 
Mighty McCauleys 5534 
Will this better to be auditable? 5534 
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