@Neil0001 - Without being ‘silly’ with the £/$, I would suggest you look for a pre-loved XPS for your NDX2. My pre-loved XPS2 cost me ‘only’ £1,100 back in 2014, although this was reduced from I think £1,500, as it had some cosmetic damage to its case (which responded to a light paint & polish).
I wouldn’t worry which variety - any XPS will give you a nice uplift.
Change the speakers. Focals were totally ignored here before the ‘merge’. And IMO they should be ignored altogether. Do yourself a favor and buy something else.
Over the years I’ve gotten some great advice for sure. Sometimes it takes a bit to process but generally folks are spot on and in the long run save you money and time.
I suspect a bit of latitude for non-native English speakers may be due here. Even people whose English is excellent, like Max, are likely to phrase things based on their mother tongue and come across in unintended ways.
I think either the XPSDR upgrade or new speakers would only enhance your already lovely system. I’d second the PMC suggestion based on your room limitations too.
One thought though if I may, if you upgrade to the XPSDR first you’ll get a lovely uplift I’m sure, but as some others here have suggested, I think your speakers would/are the limiting factor here (despite them being very capable I’m sure) and they may not let you hear all of the improvement you’ve made from the outlay on the XPSDR. If you upgraded the speakers first however, I think you’d get everything they bring and it would allow the full potential of your system to shine through too. It then means you would also get the full benefit of the XPSDR if you did that at a later date.
Definitely try and hear a few speakers if you can.
Thanks all… my thoughts now are to first investigate a speaker upgrade, and what I can get for my money, and whether it gives me a noticeable upgrade in SQ. Then I’ll reflect from there. I suspect that a speaker upgrade will give more room for a future XPS upgrade to really shine.