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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?  
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Yeah, it sounds and appears as though you have experienced a DBA! lol! What I been saying! And Tim. And all the rest of us who have actually done it. Good for you. 
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Nevertheless they do indeed work. Search the site. Read my review. Search dither. Decide for yourself which is more important: that it works? Or that you understand how it works?
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HFTs are awesome. See my full length review, around here somewhere. They have a sort of systematic way of adding them but I know from experience they can be done any way and any order you like. 

When you look into them you will see there are a few different types. Each one is tuned and really does work best in the locations they suggest. That said if you are in a situation where the ceiling is very high or a side or back wall is very far away (or non-existent) then obviously they aren't going to work as well like that. 

So what I would do is get the speaker kits. These for sure will work and no matter where you set the speakers up. Also the speaker kit comes with I think 3 different types. 

What I would do is experiment with those on the walls and/or ceiling first. SR gives a free 30 day trial but if you can avoid even having to mail back with a little testing so much the better. It will also give you some idea how effective they are. Then after you've played around on the walls put them on the speakers.

I will tell you right now its crazy how good they are. And I have all the PPT stuff too so when I say crazy good I know crazy good! 

Another one is ECT. These are different in where they go but almost exactly the same in the sort of improvement they bring- lower noise, greater detail and dynamics, less grain and glare, deeper more layered and precise sound field. None of it quite as good as PPT but pretty darn good nonetheless!

I wouldn't bother with Orange. Sending PM for better option.
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