Thanks Geoff.
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Sorry to hear that - a real pain. You wonât want to hear this after the event but, apart from at work, the only place where I religiously wear a face mask is on a plane (and it needs to be an FFP2 or FFP3 mask). Hope your illness is brief
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Hi Richard - 3 days post event seems atypical, with LF test not detecting until symptoms are well-established (often 36/48hr lag). Hope OK (most are) - my medico contacts report lingering tiredness after symptoms abate appears the primary after effect, which can go on for a week or two.
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Richard,
Fast recovery and it is recommended to take a supplement of vitamin D regularly.
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Great job Daniel and thanks for sharing.
The thing Iâve found with the Fraim - especially with a two stack set up but the same principles apply with a one stack like yours - is that itâs like a puzzle. Eventually you will work out what the optimum configuration is to ensure that cables hang optimally and, as others have said, that the boxes are at the correct level on the Fraim.
By way of example I started off with the NAP 300 Head unit on the base of the left stack and the NAP300 Power supply on the base of the right stack as that seemed sensible. I ended up with the PS on the top level of the right stack and the HU on the base level as that ensured that the 300 burndies hung freely and did not touch the floor (which they did in the original configuration). The same principle then applied to the 552 HU which goes on the top of the left stack and the PS on the bottom of the right stack. It took me about 6 goes to work all this out but itâs absolutely part of the fun!
So donât worry at all if your first configuration isnât perfect. You will work it out once you have tried a few variations.
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Hope you get better soon.
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Speedy recovery Richard.
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Thanks for all of the replies and suggestions. I stacked it this way to get the cables off of the ground, and for its looks. I feel it would look unbalanced with the Hicap on the bottom. I also wish I could have placed the Fraim a little further from the back wall, but I canât because it would be too far into the listening room.
Only the Burndy slightly touches the wall in one place. As for the SN2 volume being low, I donât mind this at all. I use the remote most of the time. It was all about the best compromises I could make, nothing being perfect. Either way, the system sounds better to my ears than it did before, so I am very happy. The Fraim also looks awesome compared to the Quadraspire.
Do you really have to take it apart every 6-12 months to tighten everything? I screwed in everything pretty tight so it shouldnât loosen.
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Get well Richard!
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Maybe a tautening up in six months time if you feel the need to disassemble for cleaning or rearrangement of the gear but other than that i wouldnât worry about that rumour. Mine has never came loose in the two years since building mine. Itâs a domestic HiFi rack, not a rally car. Enjoy.
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I have ordered, now Iâm waiting 
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Question. what are the circular clear plastic bits included with the Fraim base and shelves? I did not see them mentioned in the manual. Also, the 3m paper?
Are you referring to the glass locators which help secure the glass onto the bearings? Theyâre not essential.
Thank you!
You donât âhave toâ strip the FRAIM down every six months Daniel but by eight months mine had loosened off and the sound improved after a rebuild. Not a ârumourâ or conjecture, fact! Happy listening
One reason why I am very happy with my non adjustable Isoblue!
One of the numerous reasons not to buy a FRAIM. Lifeâs too short for all that malarkeyâŚ
What an odd thing to say. Fraim is no different to any other rack out there. It comes flat packed, you build it, job done, itâs no big deal. Same as an Argos TV unit, you build it from scratch, plonk kit on it and enjoy it. If it keeps coming loose itâs because youâve built it wrong. Literally.
Actually, Fraim is different to a lot of other racks. Having had Fraim and now having Isoblue, they could not be more different in terms of ease of assembly and general tweakiness. Which way up to put the glass? Are the spikes exactly centred on the cups? Is the glass centred? Is it exactly level with the front? No matter how well you build it, it needs tightening after six or eight months. The metal compresses the wood and it works loose. Once tightened two or three times it will stay fine for a good long time but itâs still wise to check it once a year. To say it only comes loose if youâve built it wrongly is plain silly.
None of this is to say that Fraim is not a great rack. It is. But it comes with an ongoing need for attention if you want to ensure continued peak performance.
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Iâve only re-tightened mine once and i think that was because i didnât do it tight enough to begin with. I do strip my system down every six months or so for cleaning or trying a different arrangement of the kit. It has stayed solid. Saying that though maybe if the rack were to sit on a suspended wooden then perhaps that maybe a different story altogether. Mine doesnât.
Personally if i have any gripe with the Fraim then it would be with the glass shelves sitting on ball bearings. It can become very easy to forget how easy they can move and scoot off.
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