Synergistic Research HFT's


Not to open up a can of worms but I am reaching out to people who actually have tried the SR HFT's or Black Box.  I am building a new house and my two channel room is my great room / kitchen.  The dimensions are 20'W x 40'L with 16' cathedral ceilings.  This is not the best 2 channel room but it worked well in my last house.  So the question I have are there any tweaks that I should be considering to improve the overall sound performance?   I know the obvious answer is Acoustical Panels but that won't fly in my house.  I already have all of the Perfect Path Technologies products for my system.  I already have SR Blue Duplex's but might change to the orange.  So now I am looking at what I can do to improve the sound in that kind of room without Acoustical panels.  The rest of my system includes:  Canary Audio Grand Reference 2 mono amps, C1800 Pre-Amp, InaKustic 3500P Conditioner, Lumin X-1 Dac/Streamer.  My cables are all upgrades also.  I have been looking at the SR HFT's and Black Box.  Comments?  
willgolf

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I am surprised the “snake oil” naysayers who have never tried these products haven’t jumped all over this. I started out with one set of  5 HFT’s and noticed an improvement in soundstage depth and width. I followed the instructions for level 1. I purchased 5 more and installed according to level 2 instructions. Another noticeable improvement with one caveat; sometimes I would get some very noticeable inner air pressure. I spoke to my contact at the Cable Company and he said other customers had also mentioned that effect but it went away using 5 more installed following level 3 instructions. I now have a full complement including ECT’s, Wide Angle & speaker kits supplemented with the newest Atmosphere system with the additional slave module. In my opinion the best bang for the buck are the HFT’s but get at least 3 sets of 5.  
One of my new neighbors who works for a marketing company with a sound room was amazed the first time she walked into my stereo room which has a wall of windows on one long side, marble floors sans carpeting and drywall clapped her hands and asked me “what is going on in here, this room should have a clap echo”, I pointed to the HFT’s on the ceiling and walls and explained how they worked and she said “I have to get my guys in here.”