I also lived and worked in KL for a few years - a nice community of hifi lovers. I was asked to run a distressed reinsurance company that was technically insolvent and had litigation with at least 25 insurers. To cut a long story short, I negotiated and concluded one deal ( saving my shareholder USD 65M ) over the course of several listening sessions in the demo room of one hifi dealer ( a guy called Alvin if my memory doesn’t fail me). Great ( and sometimes stressful) times !
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Amazing room and system
Is it $38bn US?
Does it matter?
If it were in HKD, it could be slightly more palatable. One can see one of them billionaires spending about 4.9bn USD on a nice hifi system, I guess.
Had never heard of Thrax. Looked it up and they offer some interesting products.
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Wasn’t Thrax a bond Villain? It seems he has branched out into something less dangerous 
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. It was Hugo DRAX.
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Can’t speak to any Bulgarian spy credentials of the brand.
This model is the Ares, Greek god of war. The build is bombproof and top notch. I’ll hold off on listening notes but I will say it is very good for an integrated, even the built-in streamer/dac is probably good enough for most which is a big plus for ease of use for my wife. I can still run the Vivaldi via XLR.
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Hi August,
I found this favorable review of the product on-line (below), and as the owner of a 100kg amp, got a chuckle out of this statement:
“…it’s inconveniently heavy at 27kg and plenty powerful at 120 Watts a side into eight Ohms.”
: )
Cheers,
R
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Hi @Stockholm1973
I’m fairly new to dcs, so not sure if that’s a Vivaldi or Rossini on the top of your Naim Fraim. How have you managed to fit your dcs on the top shelf?
I’m about to embark on a Bartók Apex, but a bit worried it won’t sit on my Fraim top, glass isolation shelf.
Regards
David
Its a rossini, but it will sit on the top fine.
You will have difficulty putting it on fraim, say in the rack, as the rear leg will get in he way.
But naim fraim and glass isn’t really what you want anyway. It might be fine for naim products, but the fraim rack resonates hugely and the glass isn’t great as well.
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Hi David, as dunc mentioned , I have a Rossini player apex (weighs about 20kg). I use a Naim fraim lite rather than the Naim fraim . I become bored of rack aesthetics very quickly and like to experiment even if the rack adds a bit of colour to the sound . The Naim fraim added a bit of focus and more clarity to the sound but I find that I have to tighten the screws often. Provided the dCS dac is on the top shelf the fraim rack can accommodate . The back column support of a naim rack is troublesome for connecting cables which is why both my Rossini clock and melco n1s38 server are not central on their respective shelves.
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I do have some very good work arounds for the naim rear leg.
So if anyone wants any info on them just ask.
I have had both a Rossini and Rossini Clock sit on the middle shelves of my Fraim. They are pulled forward as much as possible and the Rossini is skewed slightly to the right so the clock cables can barely clear the rear Fraim leg.
In November I upgraded to a Vivaldi APEX stack and it is temporarily sitting on Fraim until I receive a new rack. This is my temporary solution - which interestingly enough - looks rather attractive
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Thanks for that info @Stockholm1973 
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Obviously naim now make a much smaller rear leg option themselves, as the new range has connections that fall foul of the standard large leg.
But you will find 28mm copper tube fit exactly into the naim leg parts, and just replaces the box section part. This gives a massive amount of extra room over the standard naim box section and is very easy to do, and costs very little.
I used this method, i also used the front smaller box section on the rear as well.
Cheers dunc
Nice system, congrats
“But you will find 28mm copper tube fit exactly into the naim leg parts”.
Showing off your plumbing skills again Dunc!
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