I guess I just wanted to see if going monoblocs was worthwhile after fully servicing my original 110. I was lucky to find an original early 110 in need of repair cheap. Put one of the serviced boards from my 110 in, new caps in pre amp psu out and, well, quite surprised by the far better control and weight in the lower end, and a general feeling of greater control and poise overall. At higher volume everything sounds less constrained without any hardness or shoutiness (?)
Now the bug bit, how to improve on this!
Qudos NCC 220+Minicap 6 psu per box! I guess many will say they arnt Naim 110's any more, after all the only Naim bits left are the cases, traffos, knobs, switch and sockets! I dont care. I've kept all the original boards etc so could turn em back to original and sell em for a packet.