Too much then?
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Weeeeeeell maybe a tad 
That really takes the biscuit! 
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All thatās missing is an olive 2, a 3 and a 5!
Very nice. Exactly the same as what I have - Early NAIT, later NAIT, and CB NAIT2.
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Iām more of a Chrome Bumper man (had a couple of Olive Nait 2s but really didnāt like the big knobs and little ones really annoyed me).
Thatās just greedy 
In light of this thread James one will be gone soonā¦
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Funny enough that very poster came to my mind too Debs.
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Nobody has exactly what you have Richard. Nobody.
I so donāt hoard Naim gear, that I sold a HiCap DR right away when I got a SuperCap DR. Now I wish I had kept it longer, to see if itās better for powering my SuperLine than using my 252 powered phono input. Oh well.
I almost always sell off gear to fund new stuff. Even if I could afford to keep old gear I wouldnāt. I just canāt add more stuff to my life. I have much to much stuff as it is.
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Guilty as charged: Iām hoarding a NAC 32 + NAP 110 (gold-label edition).
Acquired second-hand in 1990, never serviced (a heinous Naim-crime, I know, but in my defence they were on loan to my brother from 1996 - 2016). The NAC 32 now only plays through one channel on some inputs. The NAP 110 went quiet for a while but staged a miraculous recovery after I sprayed the speaker terminals with WD40ā¦ 
So in their current condition, sale proceeds would be minimal. And wouldnāt a full service cost about as much as their expected sale price? The other problem is that Iām 6000 miles from Salisbury.
Perhaps we should have a hoarding exemption clause for elderly chrome bumpers, letting them live out their days in well-deserved peace?
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Ah yes, the old āgold label editionāā¦ Be careful, over the years the lettering and logo on these fascias (IIRC approx '85-'86) went from the usual silvery white to a browny gold. They also got rather brittle along the way and itās easy to chip the edges if you arenāt careful. Many had the fascias replaced but there are still quite a few with the old ones in place.
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Well, Iām āhoardingā a 3-year-old XPS DR.
Why? Recently upgraded to the 555PS to power my 272.
I live in Vietnam. Second hand market for Naim products is non-existant. Thatās why the official Naim dealer I bought the 555PS from (only 1 serious dealer in the entire country) refused to trade in my XPS.
I tried to put it on sale on FB, but no success.
And things are not going to get better as Iām moving to Cambodia!
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Iām in Thailand, where there is a limited second-hand market for Naim, but itās not huge. Wish you luck on your Cambodia move. I remember my first trip there (2000) when there wasnāt a whole lot in the way of electricity. Powering up a few Naim PSUs could have plunged an entire city into darkness! 
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Where in Thailand? I bought a WE appartement in Bangkok just before the pandemic kicked in. Havenāt been able to visit it since then! Thereās a muso 2 rotting in there, waiting to be plugged in for almost a year 
Now in Pattaya, previously in Chiang Mai.
Hopefully not rotting just yet, although over the years the heat & humidity have claimed some of my electronic gear. Naim kit is made of sterner stuff though!
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But with what shall I enjoy playing music during the time CBs are at service? Hopefully you do understand that you canĀ“t ask anyone of us to part with their spares. 
Absolutely, thats why itās a Polite request, and people are of course free to justify their spare systems as much as they like, however the topic has got people thinking, which is all I politely asked. Iāve just had mine all serviced, so will have a problem in 15 years - or of course I could always use the service time to demo even more kit 
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