Well, I ultimately did have the seller swap them. I now have the lovely olive HiCap in place, and also some transformer hum in my right ear! Slightly bittersweet though predictable end to the tale. 
All in all, still glad to have the matching set.
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True but UQ/UQ2 also contains a power amp and is discontinued. Something along the lines of DAC-V1 plus streaming on the new software platform would be great.
I can see half a nd5xs2 in a shoe box. Powered from a hicap. Nice and simple. And all for £500?
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ND5XS2 in an olive 250 case. 
My 72/140 pair are now heading south from Sheffield.
Darren said they were original. No previous service/totally original.
Which is always good.
So, the clock has been reset. And the burn in will have to start.
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Don’t see why. What if they had been previously serviced by Darran/Naim? How would that be bad?
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A significant number of these amps are modified by companies which should not be named here.
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I had previously checked with Salisbury and Darran. Neither had any record of service with them.
My " fear" was that Mr Third party had done a service ( badly). But Darran confirmed that these were original from the factory. And I guess he sees enough to know!
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I had my 18 year old NAP140 serviced in 2016, it sounded good after but to be honest it had sounded pretty good before. A little while later I upgraded my NAC92 (a Naim dealer modified NAIT3) to a little used NAC 202 and boy what a difference! Last year I added a used NDX and without getting into the lossy v lossless argument, Spotify sounds absolutely superb! I am sure it’s down to the musical nature of the lowly NAP140, a seriously underrated amplifier.
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