This is really nice!
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Best not to eat them either.
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- It’s really ugly and silly looking.
- The cost is exorbitant (almost $20K).
- It has no usable space for any components (other than the Clearaudio motor LPS and Terra).
- It’s really ugly and silly looking.
- There is no facility to add an islation base under the turntable.
- I have no way to tell if it will work well on my floor (wood floors on 2nd story of a 100 yr old house).
Did I mention? It’s really ugly and silly looking. 
There are superior choices at less cost.
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Well, nothing looks worse than your turntable? 
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I like the looks of my turntable, but I didn’t buy it for that anyway. I get that it isn’t for everyone.
Looks or not, that Clearaudio rack is still impractical.
Yeah. Visual is always subjective. You are right that it is not practical but I am certain they built it to optimise their turntable’s performance at the same time visually integrate it.
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I have an old wood floor with shakey subfloor. I need lots of rigidity. Fraim doesn’t provide much rigidity and that Clearaudio may or may not.
The HRS EXR rack is extremely rigid, so that’s what I’m sticking with. I can muck around with cables, etc on the lower part of the EXR rack, and even tug on the stanchions and the turntable doesn’t miss a beat. That was not possible with Fraim, and I wonder about the Clearaudio (which the most expensive of them). The HRS EXR has a larger footprint (21” x 19”) which is what I need.
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Yep. The Fraim is best on a concrete floor.
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Even in a new build, of the house is made of wood you may have to do adjustments a few times a year. My speakers and racks will wobble mid autumn as the house adjusts to low humidity and often there will be a spike as much as 3mm off the floor.
Come mid spring, the same happens again as the humidity increases.
It’s not as much of an issue in the UK because humidity is fairly high year round. But other places, rack and stand adjustments are a constant thing. I always tep speakers and racks before a serious session and keep a spirit level in both listening rooms.
I’m in the US but my room doesn’t exhibit any of those settling issues. I’ve never had to readjust a Fraim base nor speaker level. However, my house is brick not wood
Ok, i have no arguments now to sell it to you. Here it costs 9k euros.
It looks better with the Statement I think.
I think that the 2nd stack of Fraim with Naim boxes all ties in nicely. I don’t think you need to change the rack there. Leave it all alone now! Looks great 
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Yeah, but the HRS rack looks so much nicer, is higher quality, and far more rigid. It would be nice to have two matching racks too. I’m not going to do it though. I would wait in case I get rid of the Naim altogether and go for a Boulder 1100 series system to replace it.
I always thought the Naim Fraim shelves looked 1st class…until I put a HRS rack next to it.
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Isn’t rigidity contended by Quadraspire?
My wife and I were discussing last night the idea of replacing the ‘brawn’ Fraim stack with a 2nd HRS EXR rack. I can fund a substantial part of it selling off all my Fraim (2 base levels. 6 std levels and 2 Fraimlite levels). I think my 252 sounds better on the HRS EXR than it ever did on the Fraim, and that’s with it stacked on top of the NDX2 (with HRS Nimbus dampers between the two cases).
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If I ever found myself fortunate enough to come in to a lump of cash I’d be happy with that system 
I didn’t realise Nagra did their kit in anything but raw silver? (might just be the light in the photo)
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