Placement tips for Synergistic Research HTFs

Jkbtn - yeah, it’s a very subtle effect, much less noticeable than cable changes. If I had paid serious money for these, I’d be not very happy, or telling myself they work better than they do. Though maybe the official ones work better. Though I’m sceptical. Very sceptical.

I agree they are fun to make, and I’m content with their performance relative to my time and money outlay.

Toolbox - I'm interested to hear your results with the different sizes/weights.. thanks again.

Just as I predicted and thanks again for the detailed report, Toolbox. More is not more sometimes. Lol

The problem with going off a little bit half cocked as it were with these transducers and resonators is that it very easy to do more harm than good. And without knowing what to look for in terms of results one is tempted to jump to certain conclusions too quickly. Once you have committed to a bunch of placements that are not "good" it’s very difficult to correct for these mistakes down the road, I.e., by adding more and more. The damage has already been done. It’s what we call going too far. Icarus ignored his father's warnings and went too far too fast and fell to his death. 😥

Are the real and more expensive transducers and resonators more effective than these DIY jobbers? Has anyone here read the reviews of the real McCoys, you know, the Franck Tchang resonators made of pure platinum or silver or gold, the ones DIYers abhor? 😧 Or the real SR transducers? It’s a lot like trying to knock off Shun Mook Mpingo discs without understanding the principles involved. Or trying to make bread without the benefit of a recipe.

So this is all about the transmission of polarities of shear from one solid material to another..something that isolation fails to address.
Geometric shapes primarily are the most important aspect of this transfer system and then the actual shear velocity of the material or materials. Compression waves when they contact any solid surface become shear waves which become trapped within isolation forms and systems contained in and on devices..walls and chassis, speaker boxes and other components all to be remixed with the signal you wish to maintain. Motors, transformers and speakers and the vinyl LP all these generate shear waves of which,  some polarities are a necessary part of sound reproduction..one polarity is not useful but harmful to the transfer of energy and detrimental to sound integrity. Tom

Reading this with interest, want to thank everyone for taking the time to share. Will make my own report Sunday.

theaudiotweak
So this is all about the transmission of polarities of shear from one solid material to another..something that isolation fails to address.
Geometric shapes primarily are the most important aspect of this transfer system and then the actual shear velocity of the material or materials. Compression waves when they contact any solid surface become shear waves which become trapped within isolation forms and systems contained in and on devices..walls and chassis, speaker boxes and other components all to be remixed with the signal you wish to maintain. Motors, transformers and speakers and the vinyl LP all these generate shear waves of which, some polarities are a necessary part of sound reproduction..one polarity is not useful but harmful to the transfer of energy and detrimental to sound integrity. Tom

Tom, you should probably read the white paper on the active isolation system by Herzan that Folkfreak posted the other day that specifically addresses these self-induced vibrations you're referring to. Obviously, the recent spate of speaker isolation devices and platforms also address these issues. So, to summarize, you’re wrong that isolation doesn’t address self induced vibration, from whatever source, transformers, speakers, what have you. If isolation could not address ALL vibrations LIGO would never have been able to detect gravity waves, you remember, the ones with the amplitude of the nucleus of an atom.