I waited longer than that a couple of years pre covid for a stack of 4. 3 weeks these days is not bad.
Happily supporting my gear these days. Very happy with it.
HRSā¦ it looks so cool. Just donāt ask the price.
Dec.2020 I ordered two stacks (8 levels) + 2 base and received it mid-April 2021. Good things come those who wait!
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spent a very productive couple of hours yesterday on taking the whole system apart, good clean, put it back, cable dressing - thats is for another 12 months
to me not only does the FRAIM offer some of the best isolation to your system, cable dressing even with the burndies con 252/SC & 300 hand clear to me itās another black box
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It took me a while to accept the price tag for a 5 layer black/silver Fraim. But 10 years on, it still sounds and looks like new. Love it.
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Looks great Antz. Hope the 505ās are continuing to delight you. I may be wrong and itās a very minor point anyway, but looking at the pics, if the glass shelves are right back against the metal pins then it might be worth pulling the shelves forward a tiny fraction just so that they donāt touch the pins. Definitely obsessive behaviour and I donāt know if it will bring any obvious changes in sound quality, but takes only a few seconds to do anyway. 
thanks @KJC will try that - needed to just rebuild Fraim clean interconnects - massage burndies etc
will try pulling out from Pins, on the T505 they are a delight, wanted them since I heard them @Cymbiosis on demo
hoping to get deck back later today with Keel fitted and then pritty much finished (Yes I know!!)
just love the music at the moment - had FRAIM for a few years now and delighted I made the Ā£Ā£Ā£
The glass shelves are best aligned with the fronts of the shelves, which I believe is how itās designed to be used. They can be slid forward without removing the equipment. I always aligned the boxes with the shelves as well - it looks much nicer - though some prefer the sound with the boxes a few mm back. But in all cases the glass is aligned with the front.
Perhaps someone can correct me, but I think Fraim components are made in China. So there will be delays in that regard.
Ah thatās why theyāre so bloody expensive then!
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Iām totally amazed people are okay with the recommendation to strip down and rebuild their Frame every year. What a chore.
Iāve toyed with the idea of moving to Fraim Lite from Quadraspire (I just think the Lite looks massively nicer than Fraim) but the āstripdown and rebuild to get best resultsā is so immensely offputting.
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Itās done more for character building than for sound quality.
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It is a chore but Iāve found that dismantling the hi-fi once a year is generally beneficial regardless of rack type. The disconnection and reconnection process helps clean contacts, plus the ability to redress and cables. I did the same when I had my Quadraspire and often found that the threaded inserts/legs needed a slight tweak with the bar.
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I remember the days of old when i used to buff and polish every single part of my motorcycle, hours on end into every nook ānā cranny - of course after doing so; a quick spin down the road as a reward for all my hard work, she purred like Cheshire Cat, like never before! 
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redoing connections for natural abrasion cleaning is one thing. Stripping down a rack and your own body weight in gear is quite another.
Quadraspire is quite easy. After two tightens at 3 and 6 months, they stay tight. Of course the quadraspire recommendation is to not tighten and let them stay a bit loosey goosey.
My understanding is you should do the complete strip down and reconnections 2 or 3 times a year.
I donāt mind unplugging the cable connections every now and then, but rebuilding each layer of Fraim and then all that nonsense about cable dressing ( social distancing worse than Covid?) , Is deeply unappealing.
No pain no gain sure, but I am happy with my lovely looking non maintenance Isoblue. The Fraim was much better than my outgoing Hutter, so Iām pretty certain it would comfortably beat my Isoblue. It is a black box upgrade but not for me.
I had the Fraim many many years ago and never adjusted it once during that period, as I didnāt realise you had to! . No wonder why the legs nearly fell off when I sold and dismantled it.
Youāve been fraimed?
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IIRC some of the metal parts are made out East.
I remember asking my dealer about Fraim nearly a decade ago. They said, āWell itās good. Peerless perhaps. But it cost A LOT of money. And then it costs you A LOT of weekends until you die.ā
I do like the look (of Lite anyway). Iām sort of okay with the cost. But Iām not retired and my time is valuable.
Fraim seems like it may be like buying a boat. The best days are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
Iām still undecided though.
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Despite my maintenance moan, it is a black box upgrade and therefore the cost appears more reasonable.
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Indeed! Another bit of forum nonsense about things improving sound quality. Have folk not got better things to do with their time?!
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