Fraim Stack Rationalisation Ideas

Posted by: northpole on 01 May 2017

I have recently acquired a set of pre-owned fraim shelving which, after minor tweaking, now comprises two base levels; a tall legged shelf; and nine standard height shelves. It may be that I have too many to form two stacks and that is the first bit I'd really appreciate a steer on from the experienced folks here.

The previous isoblue shelves were configured as follows with left - right referencing used:

Base with extended legs over NAP 500 - 500 PS

Unused - 552 PS

552DR - XPS2DR

Tom Evans Groove + Phono - Chord Hugo; Mini Mac; Gustard thingy (ie car crash!)

CDS3 (top left) - Groove PS and Armaggedon

LP12 (top right)

With the benefit of one additional standard height shelf, I'd be most grateful to receive your advice on any rationalisation I should make to populating the shelves when I assemble the fraim, even if the answer is to simply remove items such as the mini mac from the shelves altogether! I have singularly failed to embrace the digital revolution, remaining some distance behind that particular curve!

Peter

Posted on: 01 May 2017 by Darke Bear

Try to arrange it that boxes that do not contain power transformers (or with a mains lead) go in one stack and the other boxes ('brain' or head units) go in the other stack. If possible also have the stack containing the transformer boxes on the right - not critical but better, as Naim place their transformers on the right inside the box, so it gets them farther away.

If you do need to mix then try to have the 'brain' units near the top and use either a space or the large level to get then clear of the other boxes.

Then you want to arrange them all so that all connecting cables freely loop between the boxes as required without touching the floor.

If you achieve that. then it will probably work well!

Stack arrangement is always a series of compromises, but getting high power noisy stuff away from more sensitive source equipment is the aim and you can easy hear the result.

DB.