After a bit of re-arrangement, I’m back to Fraim of equal heights which appeases my sense of OCD so that all is well in my world again.
Needing both vinyl and CD sources at the top of the stack presented a problem with keeping brains and brawn separate. For a while now I have had two and four level stacks which grated on my nerves. The problem was that if I moved a power unit to the brains side the whole system went bonkers and buzzed liked a chainsaw. I finally got round to trying the XPS on the brain side in the hope it would work and yay, it did.
Two stacks of equal height, brain and brawn slightly mixed but without sending the system in to a frenzy, and as far as I can tell, no loss of sound quality,
Fraim looks much nicer when its the same height, i too have played around with my fraim at different levels and like you found my OCD meter went into the red.
Looks great by the way
That really looks the business @Dunc and I bet it sounds even better. Good job. My money’s on there being a S1 perched somewhere in there by this time next year
No Dave, the S1 doesn’t really interest me, if i ever swap my 552, it will be with my 500 as well, as i already have its successor in my view, it just costs more than i want to pay, or i might go down the supper integrated, one box, as simplicity going forward would be great, especially if it sounds great.
Although, slightly disappointed that the the gap between the middle of the fraims, seem slightly different between the bottom and the top shelf’s…
hoping it’s just an ‘error of parallax’
I agree it looks odd. Just checked everything - all shelves are level in all directions. Three leg columns are plumb, while the fourth is out by less than 1mm. The difference in the gap between the two units from top to bottom is out by 0.6mm
I think as I put the boxes on the shelves and did final adjustments, the shelves have moved ever so slightly from their center point. I’ll re-adjust them tomorrow and see if looks better…
Yes i had the vitus sia025 mk2 on home demo, that was before i got my 552 serviced and DR’ed, almost let them go.
But i have a few different things i want to try maybe.
Enjoy Peter
