Off the deep end

Hi MM,
Statement.  Less need to faff around with placement on the FRAIM shelves.

I'm reliably informed that all 3 Statement cases manage to function without a FRAIM shelf underneath them.

Voilà!!!

It might be a bit harder to scoot a 500 back and forth with your thumbs.

MangoMonkey posted:

 

at times like this, I wonder why I bother with Naim. Sell the lot of go back to a nait 5.

Muso

You have been there before

Not sure I catch your point with these threads of you

Now - I do wonder - moving the 552 back did have the effect of increasing distance between the 552 and NDS burndies...

MangoMonkey posted:

at times like this, I wonder why I bother with Naim. Sell the lot of go back to a nait 5.

who am I kidding. I have no delusions of being able to downsize. Still - 300 to 250 probably worth it - If it takes away some setup stuff. Next step 500?

You may consider getting the Nait 5 or any integrated amp for that matter as an alternative amp where you can swap in and out of the system at any time. In other words a backup amp. I wager you will return to the 552/300 in a matter of days or hours, or perhaps develop a higher appreciation for the bigger amp(s) more after having a short stint of listening fun with the smaller amp.

MMS threads are excruciating and this one even more than usual.

His experience of this hobby and mine couldn't be more different.

I really, really love listening to music on a decent stereo.

Ray

@Ryder has a good point. For less than the retail price of a powerline, one could get the Nait5i....

OTOH, I just remembered  - I do have a UQ2/KudosX2 in the loft. I enjoy it. :-) Sounds consistently awesome.

Anyway - couldn't figure the issue / did a rebuild on the brain side, and sound once again not thin anymore. Problem solved for now?

...amp with tone controls Mango? I think you'll be so much happier....you could downgrade to Luxman 590ax2 and you won't stop grinning. You'll never go back to class ab.

.....oh, and you'd be downgrading to what some think is the worlds finest integrated amp.

When I had a Fraim I had the boxes aligned with the front of the glass, which looked and sounded very nice. 

Maybe your glass is upside down. Getting it the right way up can make a very audible difference. Have you tightened the Fraim in the last year? If not, it's worth doing that too, as the legs can work loose. Are the spikes centralised so that they don't touch the walls of the cups? That also makes a difference. 

Get rid of the fraim and get some bamboo

I think Mango should buy some better coffee, a new cafetière,  perhaps some more comfortable furniture, sit down and indulge in his best music and FORGET about the stereo. 

Sorty mate

The Strat (Fender) posted:

I think Mango should buy some better coffee, a new cafetière,  perhaps some more comfortable furniture, sit down and indulge in his best music and FORGET about the stereo. 

Sorty mate

Typo - meant sorry!!

b_lund posted:

Get rid of the fraim and get some bamboo

Mango wood surely!  

and done! System singing again.

MM it would perhaps be helpful to others to have a summary of what you did, and whether HH's suggestions helped. They are all good pointers in my experience, though I do seem to need to tighten up my own Fraims relatively rarely...

MM do you "enjoy" any other hobbies...and how!!!

Sorry mate, couldn't resist!!!!

Dusty ducks for cover.

Here's what I did -

changedtge system around so that on the left it looks like this:

top to bottom: nds/552/300/<emptyshelf>.

Previously it was 552/space/nds/300.

this allows me to have the hiline higher up so it did not touch the ground, the 552 cables to hang more loosely and further apart from the nds burndies.

music is  not as clear anymore - however I'm not entirely sure whether that is bad or good. It's not clear due to the addition of bass I suspect.. in which case it is good. In any event the brightnesss that I was complaining about is gone.. I'm not even sure how to describe it - its not so much that the music was bright before / just that there was too much 'noise' - the opposite of inky black dark background..

its bad when the 272/xps/250 betters the nds/552/300 in that regard...

Anyway - even the previous arrangement was fine until I fiddled around with the placement on the shelf but I couldn't get it to work properly once I had futzed with it so had to start over. 

Dustysox posted:

MM do you "enjoy" any other hobbies...and how!!!

Sorry mate, couldn't resist!!!!

Dusty ducks for cover.

Lol! This one hobby is plenty. Any other hobby I have shall have no associated gear. :-)

I collect postage stamps. Is that still a hobby? 

I made my life easier when I decided not to spend millions of $ for the complete set of 19th century  stamps. (As a young boy I dreamed of someday filling my album.) I now only collect variations of two stamps.

Is stamp collecting still a thing? Asking for a friend.