Haha. 282/SCDR tends to lead to one place. Sort of one reason why I’ve gone the 2 HCDR route with mine!
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You knew…!
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Awaiting my 552. I have it on order. Delivery is aimed for august. Could make a good deal with the dealer who takes my current 252/SupercapDr. Really looking forward to it. The listening room is now acoustically treated s hope the 552 will shine
Iver
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Very smart looking room, should sound great, Iver.
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Very nice looking listing room. Did you do the room treatment on your own or is it a manufacturer who builds this wall panels?
Hey @ChrisBerlin , thanks for your note. Yes, it’s a combination of some self-work with panels bought. More details are in this thread.
Cheers Iver
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FYI. There are manufacturers of such panels in different woods.
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It’s a bit of a game changer the 552.
I fully expect it to take a couple of weeks to become more consistent but it’s giving me a glimpse into a whole other world just now. It makes all the other steps up the Naim ‘ladder’ feel comparatively small in retrospect.
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la lala la la
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Haha innit 
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Not everyone can afford a 552 so stating a 252 is a waste of time is disrespectful of people who enjoy owning one. I get a bit naffed of with posts having a slight undertone of it’s not a 552 or 500 so it’s not good enough
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“hungryhalibut](/u/hungryhalibut)
GraemeH
@GraemeH I’m so pleased that the 552 is living up to your hopes. It’s a stunning preamp and a world away from the rather pedestrian 252.
I hope you will feel able to accept my hungryhalibut award for the Ultimate Anti-Mullet. I’m rather surprised that nobody has suggested that you need to improve your speakers, which of course you absolutely don’t. But when someone does, they will automatically receive the Ultimate Clown award.
I hope your lovely system gives you and the family many many hours of enjoyment.“
@anon4489532 thanks indeed. My dealer happened to have one he’d got for a customer trial a year ago. The customer went the McIntosh route instead and so it sat boxed in his store for a year during lockdown.
As I still had my NDX2 to trade plus the 252DR the uplift wasn’t such a stretch.
My Proacs? Charlton Heston’s ‘…cold dead hands’ speech comes to mind. I’ll be boxed before they are!
BW
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Hi G, from one Anti-Mulleteer to another a big congrats from me on your acquisition of the 552 
Enjoy Peter
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Sounds like a good upgrade - from another non-Naim-mulleteer, surely a Naim Fraim is now in order.
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Thanks!
G
Anti-mulleteers of the world unite.
We have been downtrodden for too long. ‘Oh why don’t you get these posh speakers like mine!?! All you need as a source is an Atom with a 500DR hanging off it!?! Source first is old hat!?!’…I hear the mulleteers shout.
BTW, I view the pre amp as part of the source and the beating heart of any system.
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I was waiting for the Fraim suggestion. No room at the inn for Fraim and anyhow I prefer a more discreet look.
…and it’s sounding marvellous!
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…And that’s what counts. Enjoy! 
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