Synergistic Research
Californian maker founded in 1992 by Ted Denney, working across cables, power, fuses and room acoustics. Synergistic take an unusually broad view of what affects a system, including the room itself.
About Synergistic Research
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A company that treats the room as part of the system
Synergistic Research cover more ground than most cable companies. Alongside cables and power products they make fuses, grounding systems, and the HFT range of High Frequency Transducers, small devices that address room acoustics without using conventional absorption panels.
The unifying idea is that a system is affected by more than the signal path: by the electrical environment, by the mechanical one, and by the room. Whether you accept all of that is a matter for your own listening, and Synergistic products vary in how readily they demonstrate themselves. The cables and power products are the most conventional part of the range and the easiest place to start.
Theodore Denney founded the company in 1992 and still leads the design work. It started in a 1,200 square foot industrial unit and now runs from a 13,000 square foot factory in Southern California, where the products are still built by hand.
The technologies are developed in-house. Active Shielding is the oldest and the most distinctive: a small power supply biases the cable's shield rather than leaving it passive, and the same principle drives the actively biased electromagnetic cells inside the PowerCell conditioners. Cables and outlets also receive a two-stage Quantum Tunneling treatment during manufacture. UEF, short for Uniform Energy Field, is the framework Denney uses to tie the range together.
The fuses have become one of the better-known parts of the line, with a colour-coded ladder running up through the range.
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Foundation, Atmosphere, Galileo and SRX are the cable levels in ascending order. The fuses, PowerCell distributors and HFT room treatment products sit outside that ladder and work with any system.
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£291.67Ex. VATThe 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. -
£291.67Ex. VATHFT 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.
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£291.67Ex. VATHFT 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.
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Synergistic Research HFT Speaker Kit - Pack of 6SKU: SR HFT Speaker Kit
(1 reviews)£375.00Ex. VATHFT 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. -
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Synergistic Research MiG 2.0 Isolation Footers - Set of 3SKU: Synergistic Research MiG 2.0 Isolation Footers - Set of 3
£208.33Ex. VATThe original MiG or Mechanical Interface Ground is a superb footer that excels with a warm natural balance that can be tuned through two placement options to best match your system. Placing just one or two sets of MiG’s under your components can deliver a significant increase in sound staging with a balanced to slightly warm tonal balance. -
£829.17Ex. VATMiG SX footers are an evolution of SR's original MiG footers developed in 2008. They started with a new specially tuned MiG resonator forged from high carbon steel and add a precision-machined Aircraft Aluminum and Carbon Fibre three-piece chassis engineered to distribute vibration through a special tuning disc and a UEF tuning element into Carbon Tungston ball bearings. For a bespoke match to your system, MiG SX has two placement options that re-tunes your component’s resonance; choose between Ambient and Pin-Point configurations and pick the option that best suits your system on a component by component basis. -
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Synergistic Research Tranquility POD Signal ConditionerSKU: SR Tranquility POD
£707.50Ex. VATSynergistic Research's new ACTIVE Tranquility PODs condition signal while it’s still in your system, just like full-sized Tranquility Bases but in a smaller and more flexible platform. And Tranquility PODs are based on the same ACTIVE EM Cell technology that powers their PowerCell line conditioners. But instead of conditioning AC electromagnetic fields, Tranquility PODs interact with the EM fields inside your components for more of what everyone loves about PowerCell line conditioners. -
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Synergistic Research Tranquility Carbon Signal Conditioning BaseSKU: SR Tranquility Carbon
£2,495.83Ex. VATIntroducing Tranquility Base Carbon, the first all-new Tranquility Base in over a decade. SR started with a new chassis machined from a solid billet of aircraft aluminum for a 50% slimmer and 80% more rigid chassis. They then experimented with new laminates and arrived at carbon fiber for its superior response to mechanical and airborne vibrations. They then applied our most advanced EM Cell technology directly transferred from our Galileo SX PowerCell. Finally, its internal UEF Technology was transferred from our new state-of-the-art SRX cable loom. The net result is a thinner and more rigid Tranquility Base with a lower noise floor from which springs improved dynamics and soundstaging combined with smoother, more extended high frequencies. -
£7,079.17Ex. VATThe Galileo Active Ground Block is a top to bottom re-engineering of Synergistic Research's award-winning Active Ground Block SE with technology originally designed for our Galileo SX PowerCell as well as new technologies expressly developed to make this the world’s highest performance ground filter for your stereo. They started with a new chassis machined from a solid billet of aluminum and carbon fiber to address unwanted vibration and chassis resonance that would otherwise lower your system’s performance. -
£745.83Ex. VATSynergistic Research's UEF Record Weight was developed in conjunction with our new MiG SX footers and so shares many of the same sonic traits, including the ability to dramatically expand the scale and layering of your soundstage while improving timbral accuracy and tonal density. -
£329.17Ex. VATSynergistic Research's first in a series of record mats with a new UEF Treatment that dramatically improves sound quality with a lower noise floor, improved soundstaging, and enhanced tonal clarity on even the finest turntables. It starts with a unique carbon fiber disc that kills unwanted vibration between your record and platter without deadening or compressing sound. -
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Synergistic Research Black Box Acoustic TreatmentSKU: Synergistic Research Black Box Acoustic Treatment
(1 reviews)£1,662.50Ex. VATThere is no other compact acoustic treatment device that you can place in your listening room to solve your low-frequency problems quite like the Synergistic Research Black Box. Based on their award-winning and patented sympathetic resonance technology, the Black Box is an (all in one) Broad Spectrum Low-Frequency Resonator Array with UEF Tech that effectively eliminates bass nodes while expanding your room’s ability to accurately portray low-frequency information and spacial content.
