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Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. 5796 
Encouragement 5795 
The divers testing. 5795 
The Midbass drivers testing framework. 5794 
Test 5794 
To Wind Up Where? 5794 
Infinite Baffle Parody 5794 
The drivers: first “hm…”. 5793 
What Next 5793 
The mid-bass laboratory 5792 
It is a different question. 5792 
A triangular midbass almost-tapped horn? 5786 
Triangular midbass horns 5786 
Suspending Disbelief 5786 
Some practical strategic considerations 5773 
MB Horns Project 5773 
Another consideration – the cable length 5772 
Buffer as Much as You Can 5772 
Options: Driver location & orientation of flare 5770 
The triangle horns in attic 5770 
Cost/Benefit of Clean Slate Approach? 5770 
About the triangular horns corners… 5770 
4-sided triangle 5770 
"This Mid Bass Project has turned into a Joke" 5770 
Bass from behind 5770 
K-Horns 5770 
I hope that good news will come later this week. 5770 
The wall-loaded horns? 5770 
Lofty ideas and heavenly bass? 5770 
Not proving anything but a challenge. 5770 
Basic's In Recording Techniques 5770 
It has nothing to do with Recording Techniques. 5769 
Mid-bass horn; thoughts on materials 5769 
How does this phase work? 5769 
Some very raw numbers 5769 
Full-time quarter-space environment 5768 
To know how I can “cheat”. 5768 
Mid Bass Project 5768 
My midbass project: what I do not like. 5767 
How to drive a long cable. 5764 
Personal Bias 5764 
There were no big red flags 5762 
The Swidish 30Hz 5762 
Who world believe! 5762 
Good news! 5761 
Two open questions. 5760 
Transition piece 5760 
About my horn skeleton. 5760 
Transitions 5760 
The Baltic Burch pricing 5760 
Boston wood guy 5760 
Nude Descending a Staircase 5760 
Dealing with an optimistic carpenter. 5760 
"...the wall where horns will be sliding into..." 5760 
Possible option for fabrication 5759 
It is about softness, stupid. 5759 
Transition Zone 5759 
Simple and brilliant jamming of horn. 5759 
Resolution of a pixelated flare 5758 
A good modeling software? 5758 
CAD software 5757 
A second opinion on the reframing. 5749 
The "maket" time. 5742 
Maket 5742 
! 5742 
OK, it is this Friday! 5742 
How to predict Back Chamber. 5742 
Smart, Simple and Direct 5742 
The wood source is found 5741 
OK, it is started.... 5739 
Dust to Dust 5739 
The day is over.... now there is no way back. 5739 
2001 Space Odasy 5739 
Interesting space 5738 
The opened up space. 5738 
The space to be used: colliding roofs. 5738 
What A Cluster Fuc=k 5738 
Rear Chamber Access 5738 
California 5738 
Bass time domain 5738 
2001--2010 5738 
Some answers. 5738 
The Iron Rod 5738 
Just sent to my Carpenter a first draft of Back Chamber. 5738 
Load Distribution & Rear Chambers 5737 
It is that I want. 5737 
Working Tolerances 5737 
The back chamber design 5737 
Very good 5737 
It is true, but…. 5737 
The Nuclear Back Chamber ™ and beyond. 5736 
Here is my mouth. 5736 
Begin to clear up space for the horns.... 5736 
The Fs of AKs 5736 
The Vitavox 15-inchers resonant frequency. 5736 
Why the ”the grown up time”? 5736 
Sail 5736 
Vitavox 35hz Cone is ideal 5735 
You are wrong. 5735 
The material of displacement plug 5735 
And the driver-winner is… 5735 
Pre-Fab 5735 
The horn will be mounted ... 5735 
The Midbass horn Maquette 5734 
4 Sides + 5734 
The first blow: the horn’s skin too thin. 5733 
The Solution. 5733 
Over Blown Horn Concept. 5733 
An US pomposity complex? 5733 
The back chamber predictions 5733 
Thickness Of Horn Shin 5733 
You again sound like a fish thrown to a beach. 5733 
Slinging 2 Much Bullshit 5733 
Equipment Required To Build Horns 5733 
Good Vibrations 5733 
Horn body resonance: Its true what they say... 5733 
Horn Thickness 5733 
The thickness and horns and the sickness of a person. 5733 
What is important in Midbass Horn? 5733 
Super Softness Mid Bass 5733 
The Near-Parallel Sides 5733 
Parallel what? 5733 
A heavy-mass elastomeric coating needed. 5732 
Sources 5732 
Materials for Mass Loading Wooden Structures 5732 
Damping materials revisited 5732 
How to finish my midbass horn 5732 
Wallpaper adhesion 5731 
Bright idea 5731 
I do like the brickish finish. 5731 
Venetion slats 5731 
The Ventilation subject. 5731 
How long will it take? 5731 
Insulation and horn mouth 5731 
Insulation et al. 5730 
The voice of God machine and.... insulation-insmalation. 5730 
GOD MACHINE 5730 
Insulation, Ventilation and "Conditioning" 5730 
Ice dams - experience 5730 
Horn as "Room" 5730 
Agreed 5730 
Morons vs. Criminals 5730 
The insulation controversy. 5729 
The Conditioned Space 5729 
Ventilation 5729 
R-Value and Damping Options 5729 
...to confirm the 3D consept. 5729 
Back To The Stone Age 5729 
Did you just woke up? 5729 
Yes I looked 5729 
It was the last disciplinarian post 5729 
Knocking the horn. 5729 
The current building plans. 5729 
The ideas needed. 5729 
Knocking and Raising the Horn 5728 
Genie Superlift SLC-24? 5728 
Egypt - tubes and ramps 5728 
The screws subject and the sections join subject. 5728 
Crane and Rolling Scaffold 5728 
The Stressed Skin 5728 
The skeleton of the very first sections are "ready" 5728 
Landscape and tree cutting service 5728 
I do not know. 5727 
Status report #.... 5727 
Amplification for Midbass Channel 5726 
From Maquette to Full Scale 5726 
It will be more clear with time. 5726 
The insulation… 5726 
She is turning out to be a beauty. 5725 
Ok, the 7th sections are almost done. 5722 
As Opposed to the Usual Spherical 5722 
Debating: to redo it or not? 5722 
Being a Stick in the Mud 5722 
Where? 5722 
From Center Photo: 5721 
Why we pre-assemble the things. 5721 
The Third section argument 5721 
The front baffle. 5719 
Too Europeanized carpenter? 5719 
Delays gradual self-regulation? 5713 
One mounth is glued, not mine mounth... 5706 
Ok, now the concept becomes a reality. 5705 
What to do with mouth cover? 5704 
What to wear... 5704 
A lot of work.... 5703 
The horny light or the lighted horns. 5700 
Cover/no cover 5699 
Red lights 5699 
Whores? 5699 
The Cat-House 5699 
The Red lights in whorns... 5699 
The connection between first and second section is done. 5699 
Dinner 5698 
Nuts & bolts of assembly 5698 
The type of the flange and some plans. 5698 
Access to the bolts 5698 
The first test is comming today. 5697 
Sound impressions? 5697 
Some data, impressions and me. 5697 
While we are all waiting for the final sound check. 5696 
A driver of some sort? 5696 
Digital crossover…. Wanted. 5696 
Listening different drives with midbass horn 5695 
MiniDSP 5695 
Got a test croosover. 5695 
My horn trivia 5695 
Steps rather 5695 
The traps. 5694 
Eventually!!! 5694 
My favorite quote in this post: 5694 
Yep, it was me… 5694 
The second horn is rising… 5694 
Congratulations! (and X/O Bitching...) 5694 
Another way of rising the resonance frequency 5693 
Relationship of rear chamber volume to Fs 5693 
The new Back chamber and the back-wiping compressi... 5693 
Hard rear chamber/basket cover 5693 
What am I missing? 5693 
How to do my back chamber. 5693 
Compressibility of rear chamber "stuffing&quo... 5693 
Babysitting the foam 5693 
I hope that this week the second horn will be complete, it is alredy glued. 5693 
Writing midbass-horn encyclopedia.... 5693 
Foam Expansion 5693 
Bite into it 5692 
Getting down with impedance 5692 
They are very simplistic and primitive things but... 5692 
Added mass resonance 5692 
Resonance frequency and mass 5692 
La resistance 5692 
Koshka behaves like sparrow? 5688 
End of the project plan 5686 
Again, too much work… 5685 
Variable resonances 5685 
The smart reasons for my stupid hope. 5685 
Progress: back chambers are started and the light windows are done 5685 
A word of warning and some comments. 5684 
Ok, the main built phase is over. 5682 
Another looks like wasted weekend 5682 
Sanding prep for living 5682 
Too late . 5682 
There is no backup, but it would be nice to have one. 5682 
Ciare car hifi 5681 
Eighteensound 5681 
The Second major milestone. 5681 
Better to be safe 5680 
How to handle horizontal movement in air? 5680 
Well That You Are Concerned 5680 
Sliding it in 5680 
2 people job? 5680 
The final few inches 5680 
Think Long and Hard 5680 
Consider a pivoted ramp instead of dead-lift 5680 
The 5th and 6th section are permanently connected 5680 
Revisiting the "Temporary Harness" Idea 5680 
How to decupled horn from frame 5680 
Decoupling 5680 
Decoupling II 5679 
Pneumatic? 5679 
A dubious benefit of suspended floor. 5679 
Silent blocks? 5679 
Spreading, Dissipating and Grounding Vibration 5679 
Decoupling: It takes balls 5679 
I need absolutely no noticeable vibration on the listening floor. 5679 
Straps and shocks 5679 
This is as idiotic as it I could be. 5679 
Weenie 5678 
The horn painting job 5678 
Romy the cork 5678 
Stairway to throat heaven. 5678 
Weight bearing decoupling inches back from mouth end of horn 5678 
A horn like a snow plow all the way down. 5678 
How "smartly" to displace air from the back chamber. 5678 
Coupling vs Decoupling at Mouth End 5677 
If everything goes as I planed.... 5677 
Getting hectic. 5677 
Quick stuff job 5677 
Quick stuff; option II (better) 5677 
I would avoid silicones and petro based chemicals near foam (and drivers) where possible 5677 
Jessie, this is funny. 5677 
Toxic lube 5677 
The first final coat of paint is applied. 5677 
The back chambers are done. 5676 
67Hz ? 5676 
Can you remind us.... 5676 
Nil risk 5676 
Chemical Wasteland 5676 
Sand. 5676 
Not decoupler but damper. 5676 
Almost ready, so far the tampons sound good. 5676 
This project is on fire! 5676 
Sarcophagusing the driver… 5676 
OK, they are ready to fly tomorrow. 5676 
Midbass horns: “Ready for Liftoff” 5675 
The midbass hoisting ceremony: just pictures. 5675 
Monument 5675 
Stuning... 5675 
The sheetrock-horn interface. 5675 
Reflections (sound) 5674 
Acrylate 5674 
Shaker interface 5674 
The overlap between drywall and horns and no Sound. 5674 
Surround 5674 
Door trim 5674 
Bravo Romy & carpenter … as for the joints 5674 
The drywall and horn conflict. 5674 
Cosmetology minor screw up. 5673 
I do have a great access to back chambers on attic. 5673 
Insulation 5672 
I will see it myself during the winter… 5672 
Condensation is the problem 5672 
I'm kind of new to all of this…. 5672 
Insulation 5671 
Monitoring moisture. 5671 
Moisture 5671 
Earlier in This Thread 5671 
I think I will be fine with insulation. 5671 
Boots on the Ground 5671 
The triangle wall is dressing up. 5671 
OK, now it left just finishing work. 5669 
The ego time capsule. 5668 
Temptations!!! 5667 
The first shaking test. 5665 
The very right color. 5665 
Steps 5664 
The invisible Cheshire horns. 5664 
Under normal light. Some religious aspects. 5664 
A second minor screw up: the horno-lights 5663 
Another "Mood Enhancer"? 5663 
I would not do the horno-lights if I knew. 5663 
Remote controlled LED 5662 
Giant robot halloween lights 5662 
The horns are officially opened. 5662 
School is in session 5662 
The Completion. Sad for far. 5661 
Horn trauma 5661 
About the foam 5661 
“Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture.” 5661 
Cone-foam coupling 5661 
Misbehaving horns. 5661 
Wired 5661 
How to localize the problem 5661 
The possible cause 5661 
Impedance test the way you done it 5661 
The another day of midbass. 5660 
Closed box mass is agaisnt the horn load mass 5660 
Let get some practical perspective. 5660 
In search of Midbass crossover. 5660 
Good signs 5660 
The problems with Velodyne SMS. 5659 
The upcoming recalibration of Melquiades channels 5659 
Ouch!... More please! 5659 
The first thing first. 5659 
Upper bass HP filter 5659 
Wipe Out 5659 
The midbass first. 5658 
The fascinating time 5658 
The Primary Resonance dilemma. 5657 
Midbass nasal sound 5657 
A new good configuration. 5657 
Lowpass crossover: to be or not to be. 5656 
The Sliding Scale 5656 
A time for ULF... 5656 
Stumbling around in inductorville 5656 
Ch, Ch, Ch Changes... 5656 
The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap.....danger 5656 
T-I-M-E (having your cake and...) 5656 
Yup yup yup yup 5655 
Beringer x-overs 5655 
That is what I was hopping. 5653 
A time to gather stones: listening and thinking about midbass horn. 5653 
The most important thing: dark side of the bass 5652 
Why elephants don't jump rope 5652 
The dark side of all notes 5652 
Look from a perspective of abstract ultimate playback. 5652 
Similies and Analogies, Old and New 5652 
AKA, Servo? 5652 
Bumps & springs & exciting things 5651 
Relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control. 5651 
Shaping the Imagination 5651 
This assumption is a tactical mistake. 5651 
The fun time eventually. 5649 
I think you would be happier with low dcR air coils at the speaker 5646 
Something is not right 5646 
A few howevers, as usually. 5646 
The “Amused to Death” efect 5645 
Talking about the midbass…. 5643 
Something is right. 5641 
Verifying the driver choice 5640 
The driver choose is always a quandary 5640 
The final Midbass 5635 
Official end of the midbass project… 5635 
The evolution of the colloidal loudspeaker 5635 
…and the few Thanks…. 5634 
Properly-operating amplification for midbass channel. 5631 
Take a Look at Power Requirements 5631 
I do not want to lose the “too idle” mode on 6C33C 5631 
Plate Dissipation; Current Thinking 5631 
How much more can I let it go? 5626 
The next steps of progress. 5624 
Blurred transients? 5623 
Taking turns out of coils in search of prodigious balance 5623 
One has to consider the roll-off charcacteristic of the horn's themselves 5623 
Perfections and compromises are bogus notions. 5623 
Semantics and other stories 5623 
The 2dB battle…. 5620 
Ok, it is done. 5619 
Large vs. small. 5616 
Behind-Above midbass horn – the presentation behavior 5613 
Modesty 5603 
Midbass bloating - the weather is clearing up… 5592 
Here is where Melquiades pays off. 5554 
Environmental inspection. 5540 
Help me to fuck up my midbass horns! 5492 
My “radar of sensations” about the “good honk”. 5491 
Honk idea... 5488 
My midbass horns are pregnant. 5473 
Obstetrician 5472 
The midbass horns and older recordings. 5468 
The new seasonal observation about my Midbass horns 5378 
The midbass channel. A year later. 5287 
To hear my midbass horn? 5224 
Macondo Bruckner Midbass horns. 5135 
Mahler sound 5135 
Default properly balanced sound. 5135 
Will horns make the difference? 5134 
Music halls and recording venues low-end bloom and reproducing it at home 5134 
Surprising and Interesting development … 4867 
What could I say? 4844 
Dissonant use 4844 
Sell "as is" 4840 
There won't be a need for it 4838 
Congratulations 4838 
A grander scheme in mind… 4838 
The mind boggles ... 4837 
Audio as an interactive subject. 4837 
Selling argument 4831 
Midbass horns, latest story. 4687 
Magnet Discharge and/or Chemical Warfare 4687 
Simulated suspension evolution 4687 
Humidity 4687 
Trying to do it with less blood. 4686 
Recharging the Alnico 4686 
How nice! 4686 
Certainly not an expert (as you know) but ... 4686 
Planning and wishing.. 4686 
Well, if anyone could ever do this ... 4686 
What was absolute wonderful… 4686 
There is much to be learned from listening to one driver within its range and ... 4686 
God, what a remarkable idiot I am!!! 4685 
I have noticed a similar phenomenon 4684 
It looks like how it works 4684 
The end 3614 
Many share 3614 
A new house --- again 3393 
Vitavox 15/40 2896 
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