Nap300 to Nap500DR with Kudos Super 20s.

Posted by: MangoMonkey on 24 January 2018

Would a move from Nap300 to Nap500DR given that I don't intend to upgrade my speakers (Kudos Super20s/Harbeth SHL5+s) for the foreseeable future (until I move into a different house with better acoustics).

Getting a good deal. :-)

Nap300 to Nap300 DR seems to be too much of a side step to be worth my time - Can't get myself motivated to get the Nap300 out of the rack and ship it out for a DR upgrade. Even though I've heard folks say that the Nap300DR is pretty much at par with Nap500. Well, the Nap300 is still ahead of the Nap250DR so if that holds true, Nap500 would still be ahead of the Nap300DR...

Posted on: 05 February 2018 by CharlieP

Mango, it is cool that you are "at home" with your 500. And your timing is perfect to add an ND555 soon. In the meantime enjoy the music, made the way you like it. I will maybe get to listen a bit to your new "joy" soon.

Hopefully, you wife will appreciate the new sound of music, and will realize that is her only "competition."

Charlie

Posted on: 05 February 2018 by Chris Dolan

naim_nymph posted:
On a few occasions i've listened to LP12 - 552/500 - Kudos S20 and really like what i heard

Agreed - although I do want to explore 552/300 DR with Kudos Titan 606s

Posted on: 05 February 2018 by Dave J

Chris Dolan posted:
naim_nymph posted:
On a few occasions i've listened to LP12 - 552/500 - Kudos S20 and really like what i heard
Agreed - although I do want to explore 552/300 DR with Kudos Titan 606s

That would be a very good idea

Posted on: 05 February 2018 by yeti42

The Strat (Fender) posted:
Funny because some while ago I was talking with a quite promzinent hi-fi journalist who was adamant that the 500 killed the timing. I’m with you Mango - I think it’s an amazing amp.
Regards,
Lindsay

I know what he means but it’s to do with the location of the 500ps, get it too near the 552 and that’s the result. OR there was some other factor that was corrected when I moved the 552 up a shelf to get it further from that ps. I’m not curious enough to experiment further on this.