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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.

toolbox149
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toddverrone
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@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!
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geoffkait
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05-18-2017 9:26am
@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.

Actual questions? Won’t get straight answers? Past interactions? Huh? Are you high? I just answered all your actual questions in the link I provided and you come back with a load of horse manure. 

sabai
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geoffkait,

As your past history on the forum shows, you try to save face by gliding past the content of my post with a glib response. Same old.

I note that toddverrone has accurately observed that "My statement that I won’t get straight answers is based on my past interactions with you ...".

To which you respond with a typical geoffkait insult about "a load of horse manure" instead of offering a straight answer. We can add this to to your list of favorite forum insults that include knuckleheads, nerds, grasshoppers and little old ladies, among others.

Business must be slow this week. But I’m sure those pebble orders will come rolling in once folks get to read your latest gems on the forum. Keep it up geoffkait. You’re doing great.

Have a nice day, dude.  Lol.
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geoffkait
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Sabai, again with the stupidity. I answered his questions. What's all the rumpus?
theaudiotweak
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Geoff,
Do you have a measured and quoted shear velocity for any and all your Pebbles.? That is after all the basis of their relationship and conversion from compressive waves and also their response to other boundary layers they contact. Tom
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