Shall we do that again? After I unwrapped her, my date had only told porkies about her back. FituEyes had changed the design shown on the website. They'd replaced the two rear MDF strips with a far narrower but stronger metal frame. Hence the original power-bar bracket still included (cough!) no longer fit. I had no use for it so didn't mind. Rather, I appreciated the stiffer spine in case my interactions with this rack get heavier in the future. Everything assembled lickety-spit. No missing fasteners, no mislabelled parts. In lieu of the stock bumpers, I installed sound|kaos Vibra 68 triple-wire suspension isolators. Aside from her back, everything else about my date was just as the app had promised. What this fit kitty thought about me getting hands on I didn't ask. In the mirror, ignorance looks better.

To avoid unsightly frontal bolt heads looking like liver spots, the two middle shelves only screw into the now metallic spine from the rear. In the front they simply rest loosely on L-shaped brackets we earlier attached to the angled uprights. It explains why these shelves have a lower load rating. But this interface made for the perfect place to slip my headphone hangers in.

The weight of the component keeps them securely wedged between shelf and bracket. No screws necessary. Funtastic!

The super-imposed drawing's circle shows the metallic power-bar bracket which no longer fits the new spine. One expects that once mismatched already warehoused inventories are sold, this detail will get rectified in future runs.

Despite its very reasonable mass, the completed structure is surprisingly strong and rigid. That FituEyes can sell this for €100 before tax and still flash a 5% discount is frankly stupefying. It shows that we in the industrialized West have seriously skewe(re)d notions on what many consumables really cost to make. True and terrible, sweatshops, child and other exploitive labour practices do exist. Hopefully none of that lurks in these shadows. Then there are direct sales without costly High Street or Mall-based shops adding their margins and operational costs. Still, this Eiffel sticker was one of those wakeup calls. It should have even hardboiled cynics wonder how this brand can operate profitably. With a claimed 10'000'000 items sold from their catalogue, FituEyes of course are deep in the green. Benefits of sheer scale? If I could only figure out what that name means.

Back on date time, breakfast had polished off to empty if greasy plates. 'twas time for that question. Thankfully she popped it.

"Shall we do this again?" Apparently I hadn't done too badly.

"I'm honestly satisfied to bits. I simply don't have need of another rack. So probably not. But to be sure, that's got nothing to do with you. You were fabulous. You are gorgeous and surprisingly strong. It's all on me. But if I know someone else, I'll send them your way."

Oops. That didn't go over well at all. What the hell did I just say? Now I feel like a real daft punk!

PS: Due for delivery two days after I'd published the above was a set of eight 80cm long Exact Express jumper wires. They will allow placement of these outboard crossovers on the floor between the monitors' tripod stands as designed. The jumpers I had right then were far too short to need a serious lift. Soon my foam risers jerry-rigged from discarded packing will vacate these premises, my inner Feng Shui critic bless the deed with purified water. Whilst I got a great deal on my inbound jumpers, that sum would have bought me enough Eiffel racks to outfit every room in the crib. So yes, my value assessment for this FituEyes product is intense. It's a well-engineered solid little package which despite the low-brow price doesn't do square but leans back and narrows toward the rear. That's plenty of odd angles for a very basic rack indeed. Once you add the odd tweak angle of K&M headphone hangers and swish Swiss floor-isolator additions, I don't see what more a lot of folks will realistically need. Unrealistically? There's an impossible question. Did you see the twin 2-tier Hifistay racks behind my speakers? That set would buy you, wait for it, 147 Eiffels but hold no more gear. If you want even more distance, consider Wellfloat's €33'000 Pegasus II rack.

Point. Made.

PS: Weeks after publishing the above, I noted two holes in the rear frame that did not space right for the shelves. It turns out that I had installed the symmetrical frame upside down and backward. Once flipped and turned, those two holes now faced the wall at about floor-board height. And wouldn't you know it—crack the egg and smear it all over my face—they spaced just right to affix the power-bar bracket. So not only did FituEyes improve the build, they insured that the bracket still fits. I stand corrected; and now so do you…