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Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5692 
Encouragement 5691 
The divers testing. 5691 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5690 
Test 5690 
To Wind Up Where? 5690 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5690 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5689 
What Next 5689 
The mid-bass laboratory 5688 
It is a different question. 5688 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5682 
Triangular midbass horns 5682 
Suspending Disbelief 5682 
Some practical strategic considerations 5669 
MB Horns Project 5669 
Another consideration – the cable length 5668 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5668 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5666 
The triangle horns in attic 5666 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5666 
About the triangular horns corners… 5666 
4-sided triangle 5666 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5666 
Bass from behind 5666 
K-Horns 5666 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5666 
The wall-loaded horns? 5666 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5666 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5666 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5666 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5665 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5665 
How does this phase work? 5665 
Some very raw numbers 5665 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5664 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5664 
Mid Bass Project 5664 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5663 
How to drive a long cable. 5660 
Personal Bias 5660 
There were no big red flags 5658 
The Swidish 30Hz 5658 
Who world believe! 5658 
Good news! 5657 
Two open questions. 5656 
Transition piece 5656 
About my horn skeleton. 5656 
Transitions 5656 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5656 
Boston wood guy 5656 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5656 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5656 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5656 
Possible option for fabrication 5655 
It is about softness, stupid. 5655 
Transition Zone 5655 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5655 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5654 
A good modeling software? 5654 
CAD software 5653 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5645 
The "maket" time. 5638 
Maket 5638 
! 5638 
OK, it is this Friday! 5638 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5638 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5638 
The wood source is found 5637 
OK, it is started.... 5635 
Dust to Dust 5635 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5635 
2001 Space Odasy 5635 
Interesting space 5634 
The opened up space. 5634 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5634 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5634 
Rear Chamber Access 5634 
California 5634 
Bass time domain 5634 
2001--2010 5634 
Some answers. 5634 
The Iron Rod 5634 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5634 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5633 
It is that I want. 5633 
Working Tolerances 5633 
The back chamber design 5633 
Very good 5633 
It is true, but…. 5633 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5632 
Here is my mouth. 5632 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5632 
The Fs of AKs 5632 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5632 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5632 
Sail 5632 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5631 
You are wrong. 5631 
The material of displacement plug 5631 
And the driver-winner is… 5631 
Pre-Fab 5631 
The horn will be mounted ... 5631 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5630 
4 Sides + 5630 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5629 
The Solution. 5629 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5629 
An US pomposity complex? 5629 
The back chamber predictions 5629 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5629 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5629 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5629 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5629 
Good Vibrations 5629 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5629 
Horn Thickness 5629 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5629 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5629 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5629 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5629 
Parallel what? 5629 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5628 
Sources 5628 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5628 
Damping materials revisited 5628 
How to finish my midbass horn 5628 
Wallpaper adhesion 5627 
Bright idea 5627 
I do like the brickish finish. 5627 
Venetion slats 5627 
The Ventilation subject. 5627 
How long will it take? 5627 
Insulation and horn mouth 5627 
Insulation et al. 5626 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5626 
GOD MACHINE 5626 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5626 
Ice dams - experience 5626 
Horn as "Room" 5626 
Agreed 5626 
Morons vs. Criminals 5626 
The insulation controversy. 5625 
The Conditioned Space 5625 
Ventilation 5625 
R-Value and Damping Options 5625 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5625 
Back To The Stone Age 5625 
Did you just woke up? 5625 
Yes I looked 5625 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5625 
Knocking the horn. 5625 
The current building plans. 5625 
The ideas needed. 5625 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5624 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5624 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5624 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5624 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5624 
The Stressed Skin 5624 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5624 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5624 
I do not know. 5623 
Status report #.... 5623 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5622 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5622 
It will be more clear with time. 5622 
The insulation… 5622 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5621 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5618 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5618 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5618 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5618 
Where? 5618 
From Center Photo: 5617 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5617 
The Third section argument 5617 
The front baffle. 5615 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5615 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5609 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5602 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5601 
What to do with mouth cover? 5600 
What to wear... 5600 
A lot of work.... 5599 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5596 
Cover/no cover 5595 
Red lights 5595 
Whores? 5595 
The Cat-House 5595 
The Red lights in whorns... 5595 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5595 
Dinner 5594 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5594 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5594 
Access to the bolts 5594 
The first test is comming today. 5593 
Sound impressions? 5593 
Some data, impressions and me. 5593 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5592 
A driver of some sort? 5592 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5592 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5591 
MiniDSP 5591 
Got a test croosover. 5591 
My horn trivia 5591 
Steps rather 5591 
The traps. 5590 
Eventually!!! 5590 
My favorite quote in this post: 5590 
Yep, it was me… 5590 
The second horn is rising… 5590 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5590 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5589 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5589 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5589 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5589 
What am I missing? 5589 
How to do my back chamber. 5589 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5589 
Babysitting the foam 5589 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5589 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5589 
Foam Expansion 5589 
Bite into it 5588 
Getting down with impedance 5588 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5588 
Added mass resonance 5588 
Resonance frequency and mass 5588 
La resistance 5588 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5584 
End of the project plan 5582 
Again, too much work… 5581 
Variable resonances 5581 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5581 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5581 
A word of warning and some comments. 5580 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5578 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5578 
Sanding prep for living 5578 
Too late . 5578 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5578 
Ciare car hifi 5577 
Eighteensound 5577 
The Second major milestone. 5577 
Better to be safe 5576 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5576 
Well That You Are Concerned 5576 
Sliding it in 5576 
2 people job? 5576 
The final few inches 5576 
Think Long and Hard 5576 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5576 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5576 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5576 
How to decupled horn from frame 5576 
Decoupling 5576 
Decoupling II 5575 
Pneumatic? 5575 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5575 
Silent blocks? 5575 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5575 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5575 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5575 
Straps and shocks 5575 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5575 
Weenie 5574 
The horn painting job 5574 
Romy the cork 5574 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5574 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5574 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5574 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5574 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5573 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5573 
Getting hectic. 5573 
Quick stuff job 5573 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5573 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5573 
Jessie, this is funny. 5573 
Toxic lube 5573 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5573 
The back chambers are done. 5572 
67Hz ? 5572 
Can you remind us.... 5572 
Nil risk 5572 
Chemical Wasteland 5572 
Sand. 5572 
Not decoupler but damper. 5572 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5572 
This project is on fire! 5572 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5572 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5572 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5571 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5571 
Monument 5571 
Stuning... 5571 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5571 
Reflections (sound) 5570 
Acrylate 5570 
Shaker interface 5570 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5570 
Surround 5570 
Door trim 5570 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5570 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5570 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5569 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5569 
Insulation 5568 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5568 
Condensation is the problem 5568 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5568 
Insulation 5567 
Monitoring moisture. 5567 
Moisture 5567 
Earlier in This Thread 5567 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5567 
Boots on the Ground 5567 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5567 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5565 
The ego time capsule. 5564 
Temptations!!! 5563 
The first shaking test. 5561 
The very right color. 5561 
Steps 5560 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5560 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5560 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5559 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5559 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5559 
Remote controlled LED 5558 
Giant robot halloween lights 5558 
The horns are officially opened. 5558 
School is in session 5558 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5557 
Horn trauma 5557 
About the foam 5557 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5557 
Cone-foam coupling 5557 
Misbehaving horns. 5557 
Wired 5557 
How to localize the problem 5557 
The possible cause 5557 
Impedance test the way you done it 5557 
The another day of midbass. 5556 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5556 
Let get some practical perspective. 5556 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5556 
Good signs 5556 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5555 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5555 
Ouch!... More please! 5555 
The first thing first. 5555 
Upper bass HP filter 5555 
Wipe Out 5555 
The midbass first. 5554 
The fascinating time 5554 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5553 
Midbass nasal sound 5553 
A new good configuration. 5553 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5552 
The Sliding Scale 5552 
A time for ULF... 5552 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5552 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5552 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5552 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5552 
Yup yup yup yup 5551 
Beringer x-overs 5551 
That is what I was hopping. 5549 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5549 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5548 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5548 
The dark side of all notes 5548 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5548 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5548 
AKA, Servo? 5548 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5547 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5547 
Shaping the Imagination 5547 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5547 
The fun time eventually. 5545 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5542 
Something is not right 5542 
A few howevers, as usually. 5542 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5541 
Talking about the midbass…. 5539 
Something is right. 5537 
Verifying the driver choice 5536 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5536 
The final Midbass 5531 
Official end of the midbass project… 5531 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5531 
…and the few Thanks…. 5530 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5527 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5527 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5527 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5527 
How much more can I let it go? 5522 
The next steps of progress. 5520 
Blurred transients? 5519 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5519 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5519 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5519 
Semantics and other stories 5519 
The 2dB battle…. 5516 
Ok, it is done. 5515 
Large vs. small. 5512 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5509 
Modesty 5499 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5488 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5450 
Environmental inspection. 5436 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5388 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5387 
Honk idea... 5384 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5369 
Obstetrician 5368 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5364 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5274 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5183 
To hear my midbass horn? 5120 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 5031 
Mahler sound 5031 
Default properly balanced sound. 5031 
Will horns make the difference? 5030 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 5030 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4763 
What could I say? 4740 
Dissonant use 4740 
Sell "as is" 4736 
There won't be a need for it 4734 
Congratulations 4734 
A grander scheme in mind… 4734 
The mind boggles ... 4733 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4733 
Selling argument 4727 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4583 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4583 
Simulated suspension evolution 4583 
Humidity 4583 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4582 
Recharging the Alnico 4582 
How nice! 4582 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4582 
Planning and wishing.. 4582 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4582 
What was absolute wonderful… 4582 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4582 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4581 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4580 
It looks like how it works 4580 
The end 3510 
Many share 3510 
A new house --- again 3289 
Vitavox 15/40 2792 
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