You don’t regret buying a Nap 500 until you come to move it!
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Try a MF A370… all the weight in a single box (though admittedly it has handles).
Nap 350s at 16kg or 17kg each are not easy to slide into the bottom of a rack when you have limited space on either side. Plus, those heatsinks on the side can slice your fingers. I think my MF Nu Vista 300 at 25kg plus per side were actually easier. It’s not just about the weight, but how easy these lumps are to maneuver.
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The 500 is worth its weight
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Try 67 kg, thats more fun, especially carting it to a show in a hotel room a few times now. Mind you the kudos 808 speakers are fun as well.
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Yes, I will be boxing those up by the weekend, mind you, you can split the 808’s into two.
I used to move the ArtDeco’s myself and they were 104 kg each.
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Are you moving house?
Yes, we’re leaving big house and going to new house. The barn conversion is a nightmare to keep warm and the we have a distribution hub behind us now with lorry’s coming and going 24/7. Plus, the listening room sounds bloody aweful.
Most of the system will be joining us but the 500 is having a holiday in Salisbury. Hence why it’s being moved.
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@Polarbear , I guess lots of us are getting to the point where moving to a smaller house is the smart thing to do. Personally I’m enjoying every hour I spend in the dedicated listening room, as I know its days are numbered… The clock is ticking, I just don’t know what the start count was at.
Good luck with the move and with your new home
Claude
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After buying my Nait 50 I’ve vowed no more gear that weighs more than 20kg. Nait 50 is a true featherweight, but heavyweight sound!
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Best wishes on the move and I hope you have many happy healthy years in your new abode and that you have at least one sonically superb room.
.sjb
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Thank you, fingers crossed, health wise things are steady but it hasn’t been the best in the last couple of years.
As for the new listening room, we have a blank canvas at the moment 
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Thanks Nigel. I hope it all goes well for you both. We haven’t moved for 34 years and hopefully we will never have to.
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Thank you, we’ll be moving in over four weeks so we have plenty of time, relatively.
I hope you get to stay where you are as I don’t recommend moving, it’s stressful and hard work.
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Indeed moving can be stressfull, and hard work - or certainly my recent move was (but amp the easy but as I took it in the campervan rather than entrusting its 40kg to removals people! Do you think need to do anything to your listening room to get it ‘right’? Mine is only a temporary setup at the moment, as the plan is to enlargen it. Move was not an intentional downsize, done for other reasons (I don’t feel I will never intentionally downsize), but unfortunately the otherwise eminently suitable house has a lot smaller room to be the music room, but accepted because there is room to extend.
That’s a good question, the plan is to get the system set up and in the right position. Then its a matter of getting the 500 back from head office which may take a while.
Once we have the system working again and we are settled we can start thinking about room se up. Extending isn’t an option for us, the listening room is on the front of the house and it will be our main living room foremost. Its a sizeable room and we should be able to get a decent sound from it.
Karen likes the idea of acoustic panels behind the speakers but I have no experience of them.
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Try moving a 6-pack/DBL system from a truck, up one flight of stairs.
Talk about repetitive stress injury!
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Good luck with the move Nigel.
Best wishes, BF
