Fraim Spikes Height

Racks (and speakers) tend to work best if the spikes are as short as possible. I don't think from memory that the spikes are long enough, but even if they were it is likely to look most odd. Can you not fit the rack to the left or right of the fireplace, with all three spikes on the floor?

Thanks HH. I'm just trying to be creative within the vagaries of London flat dwelling, but maybe my eureka moment was premature.

Putting the spikes on Naim Chips or similar where the floor is lower will help. They aren't that deep, but added to the fact that the spikes won't sink into the floor, they will at least reduce the problem. 

Fraim Chips with Fraim on a wooden floor also increase the SQ rather a lot more than you might think, until you try them. Fraim spikes like to be on a hard surface and certainly not sunk into wood or embedded in a carpet, so get a set of Fraim chips anyway.

I think you can take-out about a cm of uneven floor with the spikes, but as short as possible will sound best.

DB.

Darke Bear posted:

I think you can take-out about a cm of uneven floor with the spikes, but as short as possible will sound best.

I don't think Chips would give the OP the additional cm he needs, so maybe something thicker would be possible?

A granite slab - those used for upstands are 20mm thick - could work, or perhaps a rack that is less wide. 

ChrisSU posted:

Putting the spikes on Naim Chips or similar where the floor is lower will help. They aren't that deep, 

Sounds like a job for the mythical SuperChips.

From Lab 257 - By the Canteen

Adam Meredith posted:

ChrisSU posted:

Putting the spikes on Naim Chips or similar where the floor is lower will help. They aren't that deep, 

Sounds like a job for the mythical SuperChips.

From Lab 257 - By the Canteen

What are those things, some kind of scary petri dishes? 

ChrisSU posted:

What are those things, some kind of scary petri dishes? 

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

Was H G Wells into HiFi too? (Sorry, just trying to steer the subject gradually out of area 51/padded cell territory and back towards spikes!)

You could always buy some 10mm threaded studding and cut it to the required length. If you can use a cone at the back instead of a spike, maybe into a Fraim chip, you'd minimise the required length at the front.