I’m not sure I could cope with those grim looking brackets but I’m sure they are good. A nice thing about the B-tech brackets is that they can be swivelled to get the right toe in. It sounds so much better than on the desk, so not bad for £14. I was really surprised earlier at how good the Iotas actually are. I suppose that as they are so tiny you’d expect them to be high quality for £780 given that for the same price you can get speakers twenty times the size and with more drivers than you could shake a stick at, and the QB2 and Iotas would cost £2,000 new. I’m really delighted with mine and it’s so much better than the Qb it replaced.
Just changed over my racking from cupboards to a second hand Fraim and had a spare glass rack! All set up this morning
I can’t imagine the early reflections off that glassy surface. Have you thought about a rug?
ghastly
What’s ghastly?
A rug on the desk? No, but I like the sound as it is. It’s a long room full of books, sound absorbing books, if that makes a different. I think having the speakers so close, as in this arrangement, is quite different from having the speakers 10 feet away from the ears. But as always, it’s what the user finds good and this set up is good for me. I know it’s not going to have the space and air of a conventional set up but it works and allows me to work whilst I listen.
I am planning a separate system in the lounge, but that’s still work in progress, perhaps SN3 and NDX 2, we’ll see.
Thx
Tony
If you don’t mind indulging me for one more picture. I converted the bottom-right Fraim level to a medium height to match the left side, where I have a medium to provide adequate ventilation for my Herron phonostage.
Keith Herron asked me me to bring my phonostage by so he could make an improvement he wants my feedback on. While I was there he kindly swapped out the bright blue LEDs on the front panel to green ones to match my Naim gear.
Nice move with the light swap
JDP – would you be so kind as to offer some thoughts on how the Herron phono interacts with Naim kit? i’ve heard nothing but good things about the Herron, but it’s a bit of an unusual combo in Naimland.
Tube phono pre’s work very well with Naim…I have an Allnic playing atm and it is superb . There is life after the Superline…
The Herron has worked great for me. Keith is really meticulous and has spent a lot of time voicing the phonostage to be as neutral, dynamic, and detailed as possible. I’ve been using mine for 5+ years now, and while the rest of my system has been improved around it, I consider the phonostage itself end-game for me, it’s that good. It has great PRaT too. And it only represents about 5% of the retail cost of my system. I think the Herron synergizes very well with my Naim. BTW: I even tried some tube rolling early on (first some Genelex Gold Lion, then some military labeled NOS Mullards), but it really sounded best with his stock tubes. That’s how he voiced it and it’s best left that way.
BTW: Keith and I live just 10 miles apart, and are friends now. When I first bought the Herron through a dealer, he hand delivered it and hung out for hours to listen to my system. He’s been back since. I was at his house earlier this week when he made the changes for me. He’s one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet in the industry and his support is second to none.
@JosquinDesPrez – thank you both. i’ve been meaning to try a quality tube phono in my system for a while now. (the Yaqin MM stage sitting in my closet doesn’t count.) i’ll see if i can get a listen to a Herron stage.
BTW, if either of you have an itch to try a new solid state unit, i can highly recommend the Ryan Sound Lab phono, which i had here on extended trial recently. (i’ll end up getting one, i’m sure.) it’s very revealing and “open”, without being annoying – a neat trick – and a good match with Naim kit.
If you contact Herron I am pretty sure he has loaners for evaluation, for the cost of shipping.
How much heat does it pump out? And unlike the Naim gear, I’m sure you turn it on only when playing lp’s.
I picked up a used Fraim level; was a great price so couldn’t pass it up, and it makes the 2 stacks even in height. Two small blemishes, not in plain sight, that a black sharpie took care of.
Easiest install was to just put it on top and put the RP-8 on it. Pondering where the empty level goes best. Perhaps under the 252, rather than under the RP-8?? I kinda need to rebuild the brain side anyway, as it’s base is not even with the other base.
It puts out very little heat. Keith Herron doesn’t push the tubes very hard in his design. I probably could have gotten away with using a standard height shelf, but saw no reason to push it. I generally leave it on over the weekend, and otherwise turn it off when not in use. I used to just leave it on all the time, when it was 95% my source before I got the NDX2.
What’s on the bottom? A PSU, amp? I think I would put the empty shelf between that and your sources (NDX2(?) and 252).
why not put the rp8 power supply under the rp8?
that Fraim is the 252, the 555 and the amp part of the 300. All brawn (PSU’s) on the right-hand Fraim.