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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.

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@jkbtn Ted keeps the precise mechanism of the FEQ close to his chest but there's a discussion of the impact these systems have, and also how well they work with other tech in these two reviews

http://www.soundstageultra.com/index.php/equipment-menu/476-synergistic-research-high-frequency-tran...

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/synergistic/4.html
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Thanks for the links. It seems more like a teamplay (the inventor and reviewers). BTW what's with Audio Magic room correction bells??? This snake oil industry is amazing... only the sky is the limit.
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Thanks for the links. It seems more like a teamplay (the inventor and reviewers). BTW what's with Audio Magic room correction bells??? This snake oil industry is amazing... only the sky is the limit.
If it's a team I suppose I (and all the other satisfied users of these types of products) are all playing along 😉



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folkfreak
If it’s a team I suppose I (and all the other satisfied users of these types of products) are all playing along

No, you’re not. You’re just a believer.
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Ok so if I’m so gullible and stupid how come just this morning I experimented with swapping out the power cords to my FEQs. My hypothesis was that plugging them into the SR PowerCell would sound better. If I’m a believer isn’t that what I should then have heard?

Fact is it sounded much worse (soundstage flattened and body to voice and instruments diminished). Returned them to the prior outlets (shared with their ground plugs) and all was better again

my point is not to suggest one is better than the other but to observe that I hear clear differences, and not always in the way I expect hence one learns to experiment

if I was a "believer" on what basis would I ever know whether a change was beneficial other than "the team told me so"?
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