Give the man an A for effort.
You're close. Ted Denney himself has said it has to do with dither. Pretty sure dither is mentioned somewhere on the Synergistic Research website as well. And when you start talking about how it might work, the horn and the grid or mesh, well surely you have looked and seen the mesh? If not then go take a look. You might not see it on every one as its a pretty small opening, but look at the Wide Angle HFT the opening is widest and the mesh quite easy to see.
You must have missed my review and posts about this several months ago. X-ray images show the different HFT types all have a horn with a chamber behind the throat. The chamber is partially filled, with different materials for the different types. Or at least material of different density. That's all you really know from x-ray, density. It looks to be loosely packed or at any rate is not solid or uniform.
My impression is vibrations cause this material to rattle around creating a somewhat random noise which the horn amplifies and sends out into the room. It is this sonic dither that helps randomize modes that would otherwise interfere with our perception of the very fine detail we get our sense of spatial awareness from.
Bear in mind that while talking about HFT, that the PHT and ECT construction is exactly the same. Those work placed both on the outside as well as the inside of components. SR also has the same type device used pointing down inside their footers. ECT are supposed to be Electronic, PHT Phono, and HFT High Frequency. But all these devices look the same, and by using them different places I can say for sure they all work the same everywhere. (And I mean everywhere- turntable motor, tone arm, laptop, iPod, video projector.... everywhere!)
I think Ted is being honest about dither. That HFT broadcast some sort of sound into the room seems inescapable. A randomized dither could be improving the sound by breaking up very small high frequency standing waves. Beyond that however is very hard to say.
You're close. Ted Denney himself has said it has to do with dither. Pretty sure dither is mentioned somewhere on the Synergistic Research website as well. And when you start talking about how it might work, the horn and the grid or mesh, well surely you have looked and seen the mesh? If not then go take a look. You might not see it on every one as its a pretty small opening, but look at the Wide Angle HFT the opening is widest and the mesh quite easy to see.
You must have missed my review and posts about this several months ago. X-ray images show the different HFT types all have a horn with a chamber behind the throat. The chamber is partially filled, with different materials for the different types. Or at least material of different density. That's all you really know from x-ray, density. It looks to be loosely packed or at any rate is not solid or uniform.
My impression is vibrations cause this material to rattle around creating a somewhat random noise which the horn amplifies and sends out into the room. It is this sonic dither that helps randomize modes that would otherwise interfere with our perception of the very fine detail we get our sense of spatial awareness from.
Bear in mind that while talking about HFT, that the PHT and ECT construction is exactly the same. Those work placed both on the outside as well as the inside of components. SR also has the same type device used pointing down inside their footers. ECT are supposed to be Electronic, PHT Phono, and HFT High Frequency. But all these devices look the same, and by using them different places I can say for sure they all work the same everywhere. (And I mean everywhere- turntable motor, tone arm, laptop, iPod, video projector.... everywhere!)
I think Ted is being honest about dither. That HFT broadcast some sort of sound into the room seems inescapable. A randomized dither could be improving the sound by breaking up very small high frequency standing waves. Beyond that however is very hard to say.