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Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 6003 
Encouragement 6002 
The divers testing. 6002 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 6001 
Test 6001 
To Wind Up Where? 6001 
Infinite Baffle Parody 6001 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 6000 
What Next 6000 
The mid-bass laboratory 5999 
It is a different question. 5999 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5993 
Triangular midbass horns 5993 
Suspending Disbelief 5993 
Some practical strategic considerations 5980 
MB Horns Project 5980 
Another consideration – the cable length 5979 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5979 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5977 
The triangle horns in attic 5977 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5977 
About the triangular horns corners… 5977 
4-sided triangle 5977 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5977 
Bass from behind 5977 
K-Horns 5977 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5977 
The wall-loaded horns? 5977 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5977 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5977 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5977 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5976 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5976 
How does this phase work? 5976 
Some very raw numbers 5976 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5975 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5975 
Mid Bass Project 5975 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5974 
How to drive a long cable. 5971 
Personal Bias 5971 
There were no big red flags 5969 
The Swidish 30Hz 5969 
Who world believe! 5969 
Good news! 5968 
Two open questions. 5967 
Transition piece 5967 
About my horn skeleton. 5967 
Transitions 5967 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5967 
Boston wood guy 5967 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5967 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5967 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5967 
Possible option for fabrication 5966 
It is about softness, stupid. 5966 
Transition Zone 5966 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5966 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5965 
A good modeling software? 5965 
CAD software 5964 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5956 
The "maket" time. 5949 
Maket 5949 
! 5949 
OK, it is this Friday! 5949 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5949 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5949 
The wood source is found 5948 
OK, it is started.... 5946 
Dust to Dust 5946 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5946 
2001 Space Odasy 5946 
Interesting space 5945 
The opened up space. 5945 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5945 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5945 
Rear Chamber Access 5945 
California 5945 
Bass time domain 5945 
2001--2010 5945 
Some answers. 5945 
The Iron Rod 5945 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5945 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5944 
It is that I want. 5944 
Working Tolerances 5944 
The back chamber design 5944 
Very good 5944 
It is true, but…. 5944 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5943 
Here is my mouth. 5943 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5943 
The Fs of AKs 5943 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5943 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5943 
Sail 5943 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5942 
You are wrong. 5942 
The material of displacement plug 5942 
And the driver-winner is… 5942 
Pre-Fab 5942 
The horn will be mounted ... 5942 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5941 
4 Sides + 5941 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5940 
The Solution. 5940 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5940 
An US pomposity complex? 5940 
The back chamber predictions 5940 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5940 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5940 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5940 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5940 
Good Vibrations 5940 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5940 
Horn Thickness 5940 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5940 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5940 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5940 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5940 
Parallel what? 5940 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5939 
Sources 5939 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5939 
Damping materials revisited 5939 
How to finish my midbass horn 5939 
Wallpaper adhesion 5938 
Bright idea 5938 
I do like the brickish finish. 5938 
Venetion slats 5938 
The Ventilation subject. 5938 
How long will it take? 5938 
Insulation and horn mouth 5938 
Insulation et al. 5937 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5937 
GOD MACHINE 5937 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5937 
Ice dams - experience 5937 
Horn as "Room" 5937 
Agreed 5937 
Morons vs. Criminals 5937 
The insulation controversy. 5936 
The Conditioned Space 5936 
Ventilation 5936 
R-Value and Damping Options 5936 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5936 
Back To The Stone Age 5936 
Did you just woke up? 5936 
Yes I looked 5936 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5936 
Knocking the horn. 5936 
The current building plans. 5936 
The ideas needed. 5936 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5935 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5935 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5935 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5935 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5935 
The Stressed Skin 5935 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5935 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5935 
I do not know. 5934 
Status report #.... 5934 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5933 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5933 
It will be more clear with time. 5933 
The insulation… 5933 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5932 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5929 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5929 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5929 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5929 
Where? 5929 
From Center Photo: 5928 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5928 
The Third section argument 5928 
The front baffle. 5926 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5926 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5920 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5913 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5912 
What to do with mouth cover? 5911 
What to wear... 5911 
A lot of work.... 5910 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5907 
Cover/no cover 5906 
Red lights 5906 
Whores? 5906 
The Cat-House 5906 
The Red lights in whorns... 5906 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5906 
Dinner 5905 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5905 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5905 
Access to the bolts 5905 
The first test is comming today. 5904 
Sound impressions? 5904 
Some data, impressions and me. 5904 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5903 
A driver of some sort? 5903 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5903 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5902 
MiniDSP 5902 
Got a test croosover. 5902 
My horn trivia 5902 
Steps rather 5902 
The traps. 5901 
Eventually!!! 5901 
My favorite quote in this post: 5901 
Yep, it was me… 5901 
The second horn is rising… 5901 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5901 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5900 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5900 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5900 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5900 
What am I missing? 5900 
How to do my back chamber. 5900 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5900 
Babysitting the foam 5900 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5900 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5900 
Foam Expansion 5900 
Bite into it 5899 
Getting down with impedance 5899 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5899 
Added mass resonance 5899 
Resonance frequency and mass 5899 
La resistance 5899 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5895 
End of the project plan 5893 
Again, too much work… 5892 
Variable resonances 5892 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5892 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5892 
A word of warning and some comments. 5891 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5889 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5889 
Sanding prep for living 5889 
Too late . 5889 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5889 
Ciare car hifi 5888 
Eighteensound 5888 
The Second major milestone. 5888 
Better to be safe 5887 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5887 
Well That You Are Concerned 5887 
Sliding it in 5887 
2 people job? 5887 
The final few inches 5887 
Think Long and Hard 5887 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5887 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5887 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5887 
How to decupled horn from frame 5887 
Decoupling 5887 
Decoupling II 5886 
Pneumatic? 5886 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5886 
Silent blocks? 5886 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5886 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5886 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5886 
Straps and shocks 5886 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5886 
Weenie 5885 
The horn painting job 5885 
Romy the cork 5885 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5885 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5885 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5885 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5885 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5884 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5884 
Getting hectic. 5884 
Quick stuff job 5884 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5884 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5884 
Jessie, this is funny. 5884 
Toxic lube 5884 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5884 
The back chambers are done. 5883 
67Hz ? 5883 
Can you remind us.... 5883 
Nil risk 5883 
Chemical Wasteland 5883 
Sand. 5883 
Not decoupler but damper. 5883 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5883 
This project is on fire! 5883 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5883 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5883 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5882 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5882 
Monument 5882 
Stuning... 5882 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5882 
Reflections (sound) 5881 
Acrylate 5881 
Shaker interface 5881 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5881 
Surround 5881 
Door trim 5881 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5881 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5881 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5880 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5880 
Insulation 5879 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5879 
Condensation is the problem 5879 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5879 
Insulation 5878 
Monitoring moisture. 5878 
Moisture 5878 
Earlier in This Thread 5878 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5878 
Boots on the Ground 5878 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5878 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5876 
The ego time capsule. 5875 
Temptations!!! 5874 
The first shaking test. 5872 
The very right color. 5872 
Steps 5871 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5871 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5871 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5870 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5870 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5870 
Remote controlled LED 5869 
Giant robot halloween lights 5869 
The horns are officially opened. 5869 
School is in session 5869 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5868 
Horn trauma 5868 
About the foam 5868 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5868 
Cone-foam coupling 5868 
Misbehaving horns. 5868 
Wired 5868 
How to localize the problem 5868 
The possible cause 5868 
Impedance test the way you done it 5868 
The another day of midbass. 5867 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5867 
Let get some practical perspective. 5867 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5867 
Good signs 5867 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5866 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5866 
Ouch!... More please! 5866 
The first thing first. 5866 
Upper bass HP filter 5866 
Wipe Out 5866 
The midbass first. 5865 
The fascinating time 5865 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5864 
Midbass nasal sound 5864 
A new good configuration. 5864 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5863 
The Sliding Scale 5863 
A time for ULF... 5863 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5863 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5863 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5863 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5863 
Yup yup yup yup 5862 
Beringer x-overs 5862 
That is what I was hopping. 5860 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5860 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5859 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5859 
The dark side of all notes 5859 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5859 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5859 
AKA, Servo? 5859 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5858 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5858 
Shaping the Imagination 5858 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5858 
The fun time eventually. 5856 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5853 
Something is not right 5853 
A few howevers, as usually. 5853 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5852 
Talking about the midbass…. 5850 
Something is right. 5848 
Verifying the driver choice 5847 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5847 
The final Midbass 5842 
Official end of the midbass project… 5842 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5842 
…and the few Thanks…. 5841 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5838 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5838 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5838 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5838 
How much more can I let it go? 5833 
The next steps of progress. 5831 
Blurred transients? 5830 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5830 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5830 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5830 
Semantics and other stories 5830 
The 2dB battle…. 5827 
Ok, it is done. 5826 
Large vs. small. 5823 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5820 
Modesty 5810 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5799 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5761 
Environmental inspection. 5747 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5699 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5698 
Honk idea... 5695 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5680 
Obstetrician 5679 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5675 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5585 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5494 
To hear my midbass horn? 5431 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 5342 
Mahler sound 5342 
Default properly balanced sound. 5342 
Will horns make the difference? 5341 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 5341 
Surprising and Interesting development … 5074 
What could I say? 5051 
Dissonant use 5051 
Sell "as is" 5047 
There won't be a need for it 5045 
Congratulations 5045 
A grander scheme in mind… 5045 
The mind boggles ... 5044 
Audio as an interactive subject. 5044 
Selling argument 5038 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4894 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4894 
Simulated suspension evolution 4894 
Humidity 4894 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4893 
Recharging the Alnico 4893 
How nice! 4893 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4893 
Planning and wishing.. 4893 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4893 
What was absolute wonderful… 4893 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4893 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4892 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4891 
It looks like how it works 4891 
The end 3821 
Many share 3821 
A new house --- again 3600 
Vitavox 15/40 3103 
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