120kg single pallet delivery by Dachser was uneventful. After undoing beaucoup cling wrap, pallet straps and masonite-type taped-on boards, with the small top carton empty and mere deterrent for stack-happy couriers not to park another crate atop, I was faced by four equal-sized cartons. Their innards were obsessively/exemplarily protected by bubble wrap, cling wrap and foam cradles. Chances of you receiving your merch with so much as a whisker of a scratch seem quite impossible. Chapeau!

Once unpeeled, prying eyes would spot a roll of dense felt-like material wedged into the Pi's throat; and two burly woofers shoe-horned into what turns out to really be a box-in-a-box bass cab. Its contact with terra firma is via cork-protected flat footers whilst the Pi hovers on the pointiest of spacers carefully greeted by matching receivers in the sub's top. The heat sink ends up in the gap, with the graciously up-facing control bay just clearing the monitor.

Whilst Voxativ include copper speaker cable and long interconnects to get going right away, carefree yahoos are most sternly advised not to start feeding signal until the sub level control sits at 'min'. Delivered as shown, I would have had structural damage. Like at Dan's, 9:00 was all I needed. So start low and work your way up in small click-stop increments. This beast is potent. Just so, there are major lateral nulls on either side of it where front and rear emissions cancel out. That's why the usual swamp conditions of in-room LF are reclaimed as dry land. There's far less wasted omni action. As a result, your sidewalls aren't getting hammered in the usual subular fashion, something your neighbours might appreciate.

With gently curved bevels on the Pi, what could easily have been a rectangular box docked atop a cube turns into rather more elegant cosmetics. With their impeccable skins of 'freeze dried' dripping gloss lacquer, those show off particularly swell in the white.

Even the Pi's inset terminal plate is surrounded by bevels, not sharp edges. The sub goes a bit rakish in the back as shown next.

For the full effect, we walk up into the loft and take a top-down look to show off the Pi's side bevels and contoured rear edge.

As the driver close-up demonstrates, not even Madonna's infamous stage brassiere would have competed with Holger's very pointy bi-wood phase plug. Attentive observers also notice the quite wide convex foam surround which looks tuned for more displacement than Lowther's traditionally meager ±1mm.

With our walkabout and first setup concluded, it was time to choose a final designated driver for this assignment. Did I have anything else on hand that might do even better?