Synergistic Research HFT High Frequency Transducer Speaker Kit (Set of 7)

Tune Your Acoustics About the size of a shirt button, yet powerful enough to transform the way you experience music, HFT’s improve nearly all aspects of system and room performance. With HFT’s your speakers and room disappear leaving you with nothing but a live holographic musical event in your listening room, or living room. HFTs oscillate at high frequencies creating an energy field in your room that overpowers room vibrational distortions to correct phase and frequency interactions for harmonic balance in your treated room. You hear an increase in depth and width, with clearer more extended highs, and tighter bass. Everything sounds more live, clearer, and more natural than you could ever imagine. HFT speaker Kits come with (3) Standard HFT’s (2) HFT 2.0’s and (2) HFT X’s or enough to treat (1) speaker. The combination of the 3 HFT types is ideal for most speakers. With easy to follow placement guidelines you will dramatically improve your speakers ability to disappear in your room with tighter bass, improved mid-range clarity, and smoother more articulate highs.NEW – HFT speaker Kits now include an additional standard HFT to place on the ceiling directly above your speaker. The sound of your listening room is made up of hundreds if not thousands of vibrating surfaces – all reacting to the energy your stereo system creates. Each piece of furniture, your walls, your ceiling, equipment racks, glass windows, light fixtures, knick knacks and even your speaker cabinets and the enclosures of your components all vibrate and resonate out of tune with the music. Think of it this way: your room and its furniture are like one big instrument with 500 strings. Every time your speakers create a note these strings are being excited – and that’s the problem, not one of those 500 strings are in tune. The fact is, they are all resonating out of tune – distorting your music. The resonance of your listening room is literally pushing back on your soundstage, compressing the air and decay of notes and distorting fundamental harmonics in your favorite music. This is why most systems have soundstages that primarily exist in and around the speakers. This is also why many systems are set up like a gigantic pair of headphones with extreme speaker toe-in creating one narrow sweet spot that prevents you from sharing the joy of music with others. So what to do? In the past, the answer was to dampen a room with acoustic absorption until it measured flat while redirecting reflections with diffusers. Unfortunately, neither of these solutions address the real concern which is how to make your listening room conducive to music. Overdamped rooms sound dead with little or no decay while even moderate dampening can stifle the sense of air and decay found in live music. Diffusers render a sound with a little sense of the live hall even when recordings are capable of recreating breathtaking soundscapes. Obviously, venues designed for unamplified acoustic performances would never rely on dampening and diffusion alone. Over-dampen a theater and you won’t hear the subtleties of a solo guitar or the subtle intonation of a piano unless you are sitting near the front row. This is why the best venues are somewhat live with reverberations that complement the performers and their instruments. Where amphitheaters voiced like the average audiophile’s listening room it would have thousands of surfaces resonating out of tune with the music, interspersed with absorption that makes live music sound flat. In fact, the acoustic noise floor in rooms with random resonating items actually increases with volume. It is this variable increasing noise floor that prevents you from ever experiencing the magic of live music in your home. A new answer. HFTs are tiny high-frequency transducers that clean up high-frequency harmonics in your listening room. You see, harmonics are interconnected, so when you affect harmonics -even those beyond the limits of human hearing – you also affect lower frequency harmonics you can hear. HFTs literally cancel harmonic noise on any surface they are placed. Simply follow our easy placement guidelines, 5 HFTs at a time, to systematically overcome your room’s tendency to fight with the music your system is trying to recreate. HFTs replace random out-of-tune resonance with a sympathetic resonance that complements the music. Just 5 HFTs can affect a meaningful improvement to the average listening room, while additional HFT 5 and 10-pacs improve your listening enjoyment further still until you ultimately bring your entire listening room in sync with the music. Speaker Placement Guide Rear Ported Speaker Place a HFT X on top of the speaker facing up Place a HFT X below the tweeter and above the mid range Place a HFT Standard below the woofer Place a HFT standard on the rear port Place a HFT 2.0 on Both sides of the speaker mid-hight Front Ported Speaker Place a HFT X on top of the speaker facing up Place a HFT X below the tweeter and above the mid range Place a HFT Standard below the port or between port and woofer Place a HFT 2.0 on each of side speaker mid-height Non Ported Speaker Place a HFT X on top of the speaker facing up Place a HFT 2.0 on both sides mid-height Place a HFT X below the tweeter above the mid-range Place a HFT Standard below the woofer Monitor Front Ported Speaker Place a HFT X on top of the speaker facing up Place a HFT Standard close to the port Place a HFT 2.0 on each side of the speaker mid-height Place a HFT X below the tweeter, adjust closer to ear height for more high frequency Monitor Rear Ported Speaker Place a HFT X on top of the speaker facing up Place a HFT X below the tweeter, adjust closer to ear height for more high frequency energy Place a HFT Standard close to the port Place a HFT 2.0 on each side of the speaker mid-height Monitor Non Ported Speaker Place a HFT X on top of the speaker facing up Place a HFT X below the tweeter, adjust closer to ear height for more high frequency energy Place HFT 2.0 on each side of the speaker mid-height Place a HFT Standard below the mid range Electrostatic Speaker Place a HFT X on top of the speaker facing up Place HFT 2.0 on each side of the speaker mid-height Place a HFT X center of the speaker, adjust closer to ear height for more high frequency energy Place a HFT Standard near the woofer Place a HFT Standard on the rear near the port Planar Speaker Place a HFT X on top of the speaker facing up Place a HFT 2.0 on each side of the speaker mid-height Place a HFT X near the tweeter, adjust closer to ear height for more high frequency energy Place a HFT Standard 3″-12″ from the floor Side Firing Woofer Speaker Place a HFT X on top of the speaker facing up Place a HFT Standard on the rear mid-height Place a HFT 2.0 on each side of the speaker close to the woofer Place a HFT Standard each side of the speaker below the woofer Place a HFT X below the tweeter above the mid-range, adjust closer to ear hight for more high frequency energy View HFT Speaker Placement Manual