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
Ok, so I’m not confused. My understanding of physics isn’t a total wreck. So, jeez, what waves are we dealing with here then? What are they classified as?

toddverrone

"Ok, so I’m not confused. My understanding of physics isn’t a total wreck."

I’ll be the judge of that.

"So, jeez, what waves are we dealing with here then? What are they classified as?"

Apparently they should be classified Top Secret. Lol Well, let’s see, we know they’re not acoustic waves that I’m talking about here because Franck Tchang measured effects up to 3 GHz or whatever on his spectrum analyzer. Obviously acoustic waves are part of what’s going on with the tiny little bowls but that’s not the whole story. That’s why we’ve been discussing this particular thing for what, 3 weeks? Has it been longer? I kind of lost track of time. Lol Actually I already went into detail of the type of waves I’m referring to but I guess I didn’t realize how difficult it would be to get through. Lol They’re not gravity waves because as we’ve seen those wavelengths are super-long. They aren’t waves of joy, judging from Sabai’s reaction. Lol

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They're electromagnetic, I'm just curious about what type based on your wavelength description. And also curious how that would affect sound.

toddverrone
They’re electromagnetic, I’m just curious about what type based on your wavelength description. And also curious how that would affect sound.

Actually I didn’t exactly specify the wavelength. What I did say was that the highest frequency Franck Tchang measured with respect to the effect of his bowls was 3 GHz. One naturally assumes he measured many other frequencies, 3 GHz was just the highest. How these EM waves affect the sound has been the subject of much debate over the years. But obviously there are many unescapable producers of this EM interference therefore one has a rather big task in front of him if he wishes to uh, fix things.

From the second visit to Franck Tchang’s place by the two PhDs from 6 Moons:

"Just to throw a major curve ball, he did let on that the resonators are also electromagnetic receivers. "Their small size creates ’poles’ but because the devices are passive, it takes time to set up the associated pathways This explains the settling-in cycle during installation. Once the cycle has completed itself, electromagnetic energy in the room connects with the poles and the room is cleaned up. When a resonator is removed, the electromagnetic energy will try to reach another pole. If the original resonator is put right back, the established channel may still have an effect but if too much time passes, it’ll have to be recreated again. If different resonators are swapped out from wooden base to wooden base a number of times, the electromagnetic field in the room will confuse and there’ll be some audible compression by comparison."

Cheers
geoffkait,

As I stated earlier, if you are so interested in the full story, why don’t you email Franck Tchang instead of simply speculating via "curve balls" and other teasers? After all, as I pointed out here earlier, Franck Tchang invites people to email him on his site. But you continually avoid contacting him directly. I wonder why? What have you got to lose? Why not go ahead -- and fill us in from the horses’s mouth -- not simply via quoting the commentary from 6 Moons whose highly impressive alleged Ph.D credentials you refer to seem to have come via The Machina Dynamica Institute of Technology -- lol -- which transforms this discussion into third parties commenting on the opinions of highly impressive credential-deficient second parties to impress other third parties. Hardly the most direct way of going about this, in my opinion -- unless one is in this simply to keep the ball rolling to further one’s already obvious agenda -- with full disclosure having been repeatedly offered up for public view.