Thanks for the great review. I’m sure @Bevo will be interested in this for his pondering.
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Oh yes indeedy Mr Kiwi Mike 
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I’ll take a new 911S4 Targa over an old one any day
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I wouldn’t, because there’s no way I would spend that much money
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I’m thinking, does anyone of you who listened to these new classics think that the new sound signature is closer to Olive perhaps? I haven’t heard them and am only curious.
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You should get your Naim dealer to comment on that - and to fix it. We simply cannot say…
I recall the Olive being the same sound as the original classic. So the new classic is the same sound as the old classic?
You guys are remarkable I can’t even remember what my current system sounds like and I played all afternoon. 
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Which is what did you say? 
. New classic, old classic, original classic? Olive doesn’t sound the same as black boxes with green lights 
I had some help with my memory. Paul Stephenson said
“So in the second or third year I made the decision to discontinue every product in the range and we came out with the new Reference series. Looking back on that now, I think that, with the infrastructure we had, it could have been suicidal. I remember one night lying in bed and thinking, What if they don’t like it, or if the dealers won’t buy it?
CT: But you didn’t discontinue the 250?
PS: No, not the name, but we did. It was in the olive shape before I put it into the new range with a new design.
CT: It was a new amp.”
PS: It was a new amp. The 282 came out and the 252. Everything got replaced
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Olive 250 should.
Only ever heard the 250DR
Naim’s designation for the new classic 250 is, 250-3.
Why don’t we just call it 250-3. 
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I know what is going to be released and more or less when. All I can say to 500 level owners is unless you have deep pockets for a state of the art streamer enjoy what you have without temptation for years to come 
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And, in a 2021 independent consumer report, came 27th out of 28 car manufacturers for reliability. Perhaps there’s something to be said for Naim’s more cautious approach to releasing new product.
Roger
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Thankfully not my experience of Tesla.
Complex electronic products, however well tested pre launch, will always have teething problems. I don’t think Naim is different in this regard.
That’s even more confusing, as wasn’t the Classic Black originally called the 250-2, then came the DR version, which would in theory become 250-3 although known as 250-DR. So what that says is we have
NAP250BD (Bolt-Down)
CB-250 (Chrome Bumper)
NAP-250 (Olive)
NAP-250-2 (Classic Black)
NAP-250DR (Classic Black)
NAP-250-3 (New Classic)
I suppose we should really give up on any clear Naim naming convention as it’s never made much sense, and perhaps that make it even more eccentric .
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A famous quote: “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things”. Although relevant to Naims digital bits, I do wonder whether there is a hardware equivalent of cache invalidation? 
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No less confusing than Car Manufactures numbering I suppose.
BMW, Mercedes, Porsche (Who are truly mad… 
)
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And the bolt down cb 250?
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