The Fraim is good for sound quality so on the basis that Naim have chosen glass then I suppose so.
The glass shouldn’t be taken in isolation (non pun intended) as the whole Fraim design what makes it successful.
The Fraim is good for sound quality so on the basis that Naim have chosen glass then I suppose so.
The glass shouldn’t be taken in isolation (non pun intended) as the whole Fraim design what makes it successful.
If everything else is = then yes!
shahinians, I guess obelisks? looks great!
enjoy/ken
Sort out all the non-naim stuff first ime.
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Even if you don’t use Fraim, getting the HiFi on their own separate shelves and not in a rack with speakers will be easy upgrade IMO.
I’d say Fraim as I tried a few other types until I tried Fraim and it gelled so well with the Naim boxes (not a surprise) that I felt I was hearing them as they were meant to be for first time. General improvements in clarity, timing and removal of bass coloration was obvious.
DB.
This new system seems to be very nice, posting, dragging, and etc… Once I learn how to use it.
Just got caught up with system pics, nice rigs, to say da least! Didn’t see Tony’s Active system or yours (DB).
I hope tony is well, I always enjoyed his active log cabin.
Is the Fraim really worth it? A resounding yes. Even if the tri-pod rigidity was nonfunctional, it sure looks sweet.
Show-casing those beautiful black boxes!
Enjoy Your Music, The Why!
Allante93!
PS. I hope Tony is well, Tonym, I think!
I don’t have Alzheimer’s, but an acute case of some-timers LOL☺
Mine is too dusty to post - the forum police have scolded me too much!
Tony is about - I saw him in the fresh a few days ago - he exists!
DB.
I resisted the Fraim for years. I had a highly rated US Arcici Airhead rack and had squeezed my whole front end system onto it. The Fraim upgrade made a spectacular improvement. With a friendly dealer, you can buy most of it ex-demo and swap out the vertical pieces as needed. It will be easy to sell when you need to move it on. This falls into the “Just Do It” category. The more boxes you have the better the improvement.
The cost of Fraim is really hard to swallow, but I’m happy to have it (now that I’ve gotten past the expense).
Yes @Tonym is still about, i too saw him at the Signals Naim 552/500 vs Statement demo last week, he was looking well.
I’ve tried all sorts of racks including Quadraspire Q4 and SVT, Hutter, Isoblue, and a basic Hifi Racks - which was particularly dreadful, and the Fraim is significantly better than all of them. If you can accommodate it I’d strongly recommend it. Given the current rack and the fact that there is a large central speaker sending vibrations to the Naim boxes on which huge efforts have been made by Naim to avoid vibration, I suspect you’ll get a really big improvement. If you can get a Fraim to the side and just have the AV stuff between the speakers, that would be ideal.
I’d also try running the Naim without the Isotek as conditioners rarely improve things and usually make them worse. Dedicated mains in the new location would be a very good idea.
Now the replies have flooded in do you have the positive reinforcement you were looking for?! Seriously, I can’t imagine you getting anyone who’s forked out the not inconsiderable amounts to admit to it actually making little difference. You have to remember you’re in the flat earth universe.
I’m off to read Discworld again.
That looks like a John Austin rack. I sold a few in my time. They’re rubbish though. I don’t want that taken the wrong way. I just don’t have a more eloquent way to say it.
It’s a Stands Unique.
I’m sure Fraims are good, but so many things about Naim have me scratching my head since I started following this forum.
We have a manufacturer that by common consent makes some of the best audio gear going, and charges accordingly. But then the message is ‘sure it’s good, but it won’t work properly unless…’, and then we’re invited to buy specialist racks for a shedload more money, and that unless we stack things in the right order not just top to bottom but left to right as well it still won’t perform. And if we don’t buy the correct mains leads we may as well grab something in Currys. Now it turns out that just connecting to your network isn’t good enough, we need a specific random switch to extract its potential, and without some ridiculous CAT387E [is that where we are now…?] you’re still chasing shadows.
The analogy is usually with high performance cars. Yes, we’re buying Ferraris. But we’re buying road-going Ferraris that really shouldn’t need their own dedicated road surface and only run on unicorn fuel, not a F1 car that I’d readily accept needs a bit more looking after.
For the money I’ve invested in a 300DR, 272 + 555PS and nice Atacama rack to stand it on, I want to be confident that it’s doing itself justice, not find out that it never stops and that for 20 grand I can’t expect it to achieve its potential out of the box. Is it beyond Naim to produce something that just works and isn’t so dependent on minute differences in its environment?
I was about to go full fat fraim for a Nova, but instead had a Sound Org table, bloody good.
For me the criteria was living space aesthetics the Fraim ticks them all, but the price is
No, wait, there’s more. It has to be a certain colour too, and you need to wipe it with cinnamon infused vodka.
Or you could just enjoy music in your system.
Which I do, until these threads introduce the nagging doubt that something is missing.
I bought a blue one btw. £20, plus a console cable (also blue) for another tenner.