The cost difference between my 250DR and 300 will be around £800 to £1000 so probably worth a punt.
If a new 272.2 ever materialises I reckon the price will be greater than the NDX2.
272s are going for around £1800 and this will drop once a new model is released so a fair chunk to find.
Someone is selling a virtually new Statement amp/preamp on well known US site (starts with A and ends with N). Reason for sale sounds like seller is in dire financial straits due to corona virus and other personal issues (divorce, etc).
A bargain asking only $200,000 …
David
A bargain indeed
I’ll get right on that 
Sounds like bargain to me, a $75 discount. 
Actually, a few months ago, I traded in my 500 non dr for something else (a bad move), now I am also looking for it or something better.
I had a 300 and a 552 driven by a CDS2. It may have been the sweet spot of the range, especially for somebody coming to Naim from tubes. This set up has everything you love about a tube rig without the fiddliness. Just plug and play.
A few months ago, Naim introduced a policy if only offering a combined service and DR upgrade, which for the 300 costs £2k. So you pay a fair bit extra for a service that has already been done, and is clearly unnecessary. The same price would apply if you sent them an old unit that was badly in need of a service and needed a lot more work.
Wasn’t the policy that if you were having a DR upgrade it would only be done alongside a service but that you could still choose to just have service without DR upgrade?
Don’t think you have to upgrade to DR at all, the non DR 300 is superb, especially a recently serviced one. The non DR 300 will be a significant upgrade and be part of
a well balanced system you can enjoy right away. It will pretty much maximise your 272 and after living with it for a year you may not want to upgrade at all, or decide to upgrade the 272 first.
That’s how I understood it yes.
I had my 300 serviced and upgraded to DR at he same time and i was left wondering which had the greater affect.
Yes, but the OP was considering a recently serviced 300. Having it upgraded to DR would mean paying for an unnecessary service. In terms of cost, better to buy the cheapest, oldest one you can find and pay exactly the same £2k price to have it DR’d, and give it a service that it actually needs.
I agree. Trying to resist that temptation myself.
I agree @ChrisSU, it is my understanding from ‘Phil’ as was in Naim tech support at that time that they serviced the 300 PSU bit and replaced the guts of the amp bar the transformer, heat sink, fan and loom. So if you can find an old 300 with a nice case, by servicing and DR’ing you get a new amp. Mine worked out a lot cheaper than any 300DR I could find for sale.
Yes same when I asked about what is changed when DR a 250. You more or less get a new amp only keeping the box and transformer. Seems like they even replace the feats and connections. So it should be better purchasing older models and do a full DR and Service since you get a “new” amp.
Temptation has got the better of me and I have ordered the NAP300 none DR this will be arriving mid next week I will report back once things have settled in.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread.
enjoy!! I’m sure when it settles in your smile will be a big one 
Look forward to hearing your impressions.
Bear in mind that you need a base and four levels of Fraim is you want to keep all three burndies off the floor. You can’t do it with only three. I bought an extra level for this purpose and put a NAT05 on it. With 272, 300, gap, 300PS, 555PS it works well.
Originally my Fraim consisted of two medium levels one base. Then I purchased an additional standard level to house my Bluesound Node 2i so my plan is to move the Node 2i (maybe the floor) so I’m hoping this setup will be high enough to let things hang loose.
That should be fine then, as two mediums equal three standards.