Placement tips for Synergistic Research HTFs

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

@geoffkait my questions weren’t snarky. Those are actual questions I have. My statement that I won’t get straight answers is based on my past interactions with you and was meant to be playful, not critical.

Toolbox - yeah, that link didn’t work for me either. For my heavier resonators, I’ve been using a similar brass cap that is shorter. That way there depth of the resonators is similar and the only difference is the base. I posted a pic of the heavier resonator on my system page.

@ozzy I tried a couple on top of the speakers and gave it a quick, non critical listen last night. Initial impressions are favorable!