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HFT

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.

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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.

HFT Standard
$299/5pack - $499/10pack
The original HFT's will make up the bulk of your HFT acoustic treatment. Most rooms are recommend to start with 15-20 standard HFT's. Your speakers and room will disappear as your soundstage expands into a realistic and holographic representation of the musical event with improved frequency response from top to bottom.
HFT 2.0
$299/5pack
HFT 2.0's are added to your room's existing HFT installation to create warmth and musicality. A combination of standard HFTs, HFT 2.0 and HFT X will provide the most balanced results.
HFT X
$299/3pack
HFT X's are added to your existing HFT installation to add focus, resolution and air. A combination of standard HFTs, HFT 2.0 and HFT X will provide the most balanced results.
HFT Speaker Kit
$399/7pack
HFT speaker Kits come with (3) Standard HFT's *(3) HFT 2.0's and (1) 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.

*updated 6/17/24. Now use a 2.0 below the tweeter instead of an X.
HFT Wide Angle
$399/3pack
HFT Wide Angle's are added sparingly to a room already treated with HFT's. With a wider and more powerful dispersion pattern they dramatically increase your sense of immersion in the sound field while expanding the scale and dimension of your soundstage.

Available packs:
HFT wide angle 3 pack - $399
HFT wide angle combo pack (2x Standard 1x X) - $499
HFT X wide angle Each - $199

 

 

 

Review

“ the overall results were quite startling. When my wife walked into the listening room after the process was finally completed, she made one of those quick jaw dropping expressions and sat down without a word. Nothing more was said. She just wanted to listen to the music without interruption. I understood.

Images truly stabilized and were much more clearly defined—even on the most mediocre of recordings. There was considerably more air and immediacy around individual instruments and vocalists. The soundstage extended well beyond the outer edges of both speakers and seemed to reach beyond the front wall and all the way back into the listening position.“

-Robert Youman - August 2019

Review

"These HFTs surprised me the most – their effect on the room was immediately audible. With just a few in our system and we were beginning to hear the holistic changes in the room.  We started with the speaker only sets of HFTs, one module per side at a time.  Over the course of testing and tuning, we hear subtle shift and changes that end up accumulating to a significant change.  The soundstage would grow bigger and provide more depth."

Siao Jer - June 2018

Review

“The HFT/FEQ combination serves to make your listening room canvas more pristine so that when your audio system paints the music on it, the end result is a lot more true to life. Needless to say, the Synergistic Research HFT/FEQ combination I used in this review is not going anywhere. They are now an integral part of my reference audio system.“

-Malcolm Gomes - June 2018 - Issue 97

 

Review

"Suddenly, the Synergistic name didn’t sound so far-fetched; there was a synergy across the frequency range that rarely happens in audio"

 

Review

"The FEQ and HFTs has brought me closer to the music more than any product I have ever reviewed.  Compared to my previous reference at nearly half the price and considering its size and how it’s applied within our family room (happy wife … happy life), the combination of FEQ and HFTsis my new reference. "

 

Review

"Even though parts of the Atmosphere/ATM/UEF/HFT system may sound voodooish, these things work, making smaller rooms sound like larger ones and making big multiway speakers disappear in them like two-way mini-monitors. "  - JV

 

 

Review

"The effect on our system was immediately obvious:  A thin layer of hash that had been below my notice (Ain't it always the way?) was removed, clarifying a system that I already thought was exceptional."

HFT

Room Treatment Placement Guide

Easy as 1, 2, 3

Step 1

Start with Standard HFTs

First Set of 5

Center mid-height between speakers
Left front corner—mid-height
2+ feet above left corner front
Right front corner—mid-height
2+ feet above right corner front

Second Set of 5

Front wall center low height between speakers

Right side wall mid-height 1/2 distance between speakers and listening position

Left side wall mid-height 1/2 distance between speakers and listening position

Ceiling center 1/2 distance between speakers and listening position

Rear wall center 6+ feet height

Third Set of 5

Left side wall mid-height behind listening position

Front wall mid-height between center HFT and right speaker
Front wall mid-height between center HFT and left speaker

Right side wall mid-height behind listening position

Rear wall low center

Step 2

Add HFT 2.0s for warmth

HFT 2.0

First Set of 5

Place HFTs on both sides of each speaker, adjust downward for warmth
Replace existing center low and place midway between top HFTs

HFT 2.0

Second Set of 5

Replace existing left and right HFTs and move toward ceiling

Replace existing right HFT and move toward ceiling

Replace existing left HFT and move toward ceiling

Replace existing center mid HFT and move toward ceiling

Step 3

Add HFT Xs for clarity and focus

First Set of 3

Replace existing center HFT and move toward ceiling

HFT X

Second Set of 3

Place 1 HFT X on top of each speaker

Place HFT X below other HFTs on back wall, rearrange for preference

Manuals

Step 4

Add HFT Wide Angles for width and scale

HFT Wide Angle’s are added sparingly to a room already treated with HFT’s. With a wider and more powerful dispersion pattern, they dramatically increase your sense of immersion in the sound field while expanding the scale and dimension of your soundstage.

Damped rooms - Place HFT X Wide Angle on your front wall, centered between the speakers at about ear level.

Moderately damped rooms - Place HFT Wide Angle on your front wall, centered between the speakers at about ear level.

Lively rooms - Not recommended.  See Level Two guide below for additional placment.

Damped, moderately damped rooms and lively rooms -Place HFT Wide Angle on the left wall, near listening position at about ear level.

 

Damped, moderately damped rooms and lively rooms -Place HFT Wide Angle on the right wall, near listening position at about ear level.

Damped and moderately damped rooms - Place HFT Wide Angle on each side wall behind the main speakers when speakers are pulled a fair about of the way into the listening room -or- on side walls between the listening position and the main speakers.

Lively Rooms - Not recommended

Damped and moderately damped rooms - Place HFT Wide Angle on each side wall behind the main speakers when speakers are pulled a fair about of the way into the listening room -or- on side walls between the listening position and the main speakers.

Lively Rooms - Not recommended

Damped, moderately damped and lively rooms - Place the 3rd HFT wide angle on the rear wall behind the listening position. Test vertical height for balance (higher and lower placement from ear level will provide more warmth).

Now Included with HFT Speaker Kits

Additional Standard HFT.

HFT Speaker Kit

Speaker Kit Placement Guide

HFT X (Gold) - Top facing ceiling
HFT 2.0 (Blue) - Below tweeter and sides of speaker, 1/2 way, lower for warmth
HFT (Green) - Bottom and back of speaker, lower back HFT for warmth

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Synergistic Research Acoustic Treatment

Compatibility Guide

UEF Panel
HFT
Acoustic Art
UEF Dots
Vibratron
HFT 2.0
HFT X
Black Box
FEQ
Atmosphere
Atmosphere Mini
Atmosphere XL
Red ATM
Green ATM
ART Basik
UEF Acoustic Panels
$549.00 — Set of 4
-
Speaker Placement Compatible Only
Not Recommended
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Not Recommended
HFT
$299.00 — Set of 5
Speaker Placement Compatible Only
-
Speaker Placement Compatible Only
Speaker Placement Compatible Only
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Acoustic Art
Prices vary
Not Recommended
Speaker Placement Compatible Only
-
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
UEF Dots
$195.00 — Set of 5
Compatible
Speaker Placement Compatible Only
Compatible
-
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Vibratron
$1,500.00 — each
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
-
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
Compatible
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