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Placement tips for Synergistic Research HTFs

I just bought 15 HTFs and will also be making about a dozen of Ozzie's homemade models.  While I will re-fresh myself with SR's placement tips, and I get that I will have to do some experimenting to tailor the HFT effect to MY listening room; are there any "Advanced HFT Placement Tips" some of you would like to share with us?  Something that might be overlooked by many of us?  Or maybe, just a good rule-of-thumb tip for someone just starting to use these?
The tips could be tips for bring out more highs, solidifying the bass response, placement hi vs low, in front of vs behind speakers, on side walls, at reflection points, behind the listener, on the ceiling above the equipment or above the listener, on the equipment.
Any ah-ha that you would like to share?  I would also be very interested in hearing from people using Magnapans.

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sabai
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toddverrone,

It is indeed possible to see photons in motion. This new technology will explain it for you.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-12/trillion-frame-second-camera-captures-photons-moving-through-space-slow-mo

You asked, "if photons have zero rest mass, Mo, does that mean they have mass when they’re moving?

What logic leads you to ask this? If photons have no mass that means they have no mass under all conditions. They do not suddenly acquire mass then magically lose that mass. This defies logic -- unless there are laws at work of which I am unaware.
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geoffkait
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Sabai wrote,

"...unless there are laws of physics of which I am unaware."

Bingo! Weren’t you the one who said, "I really don’t care how something works as long as it works."? OK, so I admit it was a trick question since photons are never at rest and MUST always travel at light speed c (as Einstein predicted). Also, according to the Lorentz transformations mass becomes infinite at the speed of light c. So the only way a non-stationary photon can have mass is if energy is equivalent to mass. E=mc2. Which of course it is.

sabai
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geoffkait,

Bingo ... the fish took the bait ... and is once again eager to bestow a gift upon the forum that even Einstein could not conceive (unless he can document where Einstein made this declaration) -- The Law of the Transmutational Nature Photons -- brought to us by the world’s most renowned expert on this unfathomable subject -- right here on the forum -- after a big forum group hug. Lol.
sabai
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geoffkait,

A trick question (I admit) -- how come you’re so smart and everyone else is so stupid? You don't have to provide an answer. We already know. Lol. I understand why you hang around here all the time strutting your stuff. And photons have nothing to do with it. Don't worry. I won't tell a soul. The forum is the best free marketing tool a pebble salesman could ever wish for. Your tiny colored pebbles must be selling like hot cakes. Lol.
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geoffkait
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Sabai, are u obsessed with me or what? Please keep the personalities down to a dull roar. You’re the only one here name calling. Oh, one more thing, if you’re going to use my name in your posts would it be too much to ask you to spell it correctly?

Have a nice day,

Geoff Kait
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