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.

toolbox149
Todd, you sure make a lot of assumptions. What's up with the attitude?  Instead of my having to answer your rather snarky questions why don’t you do this - take a deep breath then go read up on crystals on my web site.

http://machinadynamica.com/machina17.htm

Have a nice day

geoffkait,

Were you addressing me this time? Lol. I must be very confused -- if you say so. There you go gain trying to save face. You already put your foot in your mouth so no need to put words in your mouth. Lol. Same old geoffkait trying to beat the forum bush to make a living -- whatever it takes. Speaking of which, how are your tiny little $100 knock-off resonator bowls doing these days? Must be stiff competition from all those $1 knock-offs. Lol.

As for accusing toddverrone of being snarky ... there's the pot calling the kettle black once again. We've seen this a few times from you on the forum. Looks like your cows are coming home to roost once again. Lol.

Have a nice day. Lol.
Hey Todd,
Were you able to use the link I provided to get to the Valley Hydraulic page to order the big 1/4" caps.  I tried yesterday and it didn't seem to work.  I'm wondering if it's just my iPad or if the link I copied just doesn't work for anybody.  If you can't use it, let me know & I'll post some detailed directions.  The Valley site isn't very intuitive. 

Thanks,
Toolbox
Sabai, Whoa! Dude! The doctor is in. Go ahead, let it all out. Remember to look within. And maybe look in a book while you’re at it. Wouldn’t kill you.

😛

Theaudiotweak

I have to back you up on your past statement of 05-16-2017 8:53am

"If you have placed devices on flat surfaces or walls and you are pleased with the outcome you can take this whole thing to a higher level by removing adhesive damping materials and attaching your device right to the wall or other surface. You can do this with the aid of a threaded insert placed directly into the wall and your device also threaded screwed into the wall. You can now adjust the resonance point on the wall by ever so slightly adjusting the tension of your device to the wall or surface. 1/16 of a turn can be clearly discerned..or even much less depending on the surface."

I had a very similar expirience with the very first resonators I built. They were quite complicated to build and I didn’t go any further in developing them because they were too much work to put together. Basically, they had a very small nail holding a cone to a small wooden cap. The nail protruded through the bottom of the wooden cap, so I just pushed the nail into my drywall wherever I wanted to place a resonator. The nail held the cone and cap firmly against the wall, but I didn’t have control of the tightness like I would have had with your screw suggestion.

I did notice that when held tight against the wall with no adhesive, the effect was quite pronounced. In my case - too pronounced. Ultimately, I decided I didn’t want any resonators on any of my walls. I only want to get a small tweek out of these things, but someone looking a more dramatic addition to their sound should give them a try. If you already have some cones all you need is a few small screws.  I tried sticking up cones with no bases as an experiment but I used Blu Tack to place them.  Screwing cones directly onto a wall might be well worth the effort.

Unfortunately,  I'm really happy with my setup of resonators and I've settled into listening to music rather than playing around with my system.  I guess someone else will have to take up the torch on this one.

Good idea!  Sorry it took me so long to reply.  I was a little busy.

Thanks,
Toolbox