With my Move loaners long since back in Bavaria drinking beer and eating pretzels, here's the firm's own side-by-side photo. Now we're also on the same page about how Mini stacks up by contrast. With the magnetic grey grills attached, both look identical. The right pair could be the Move or Move Mini. Without another object to gauge size against, photos won't tell them apart.

Here's Move on my desktop for another visual reference of a quite standard-sized monitor hence far cry from Zu's DWX. The Mini meanwhile is quite petite. For desktop drive, my current headfi/speaker champ is a 25/45wpc into 8/4Ω class A/B Enleum AMP-23R fed by a Laiv Harmony DAC. The Enleum is €6'250 but purely analogue so sans streaming module or digital inputs. Of equivalent power but more generously featured, Norbert's Combo demands well less than half but retains my desktop-critical ¼" headfi port. Unlike the Laiv DAC, it can take a direct Ethernet signal and access my Qobuz Sublime subscription through Audirvana Studio's UPnP window. In short, unlike my little Korean amp, the Combo caters far more keenly to modern users who do more with less; who focus on cloud streaming; and who might well integrate a big-screen TV for cover art and movies to consider an HDMI ARC port de rigueur.

Here we see the desktopping threesome of Mini and Combo. It sent the Enleum amp and EnigmAcoustics speakers out to pasture, the Laiv DAC to mere witness duty. Incoming signal was S/PDIF coax off the Singxer bridge via Audirvana Studio. I'd leave an RJ45 stream for my next listening station. Typical listening SPL in this nearfield registered ~40 on the dial. This afterwards defaulted to showing the selected input. I now set the display to off. Then it only briefly awakes with a remote prompt to show a volume or input change. Simple is good. Delivered by the postman on an ungodly Saturday given Xmas crunch, my Teutonic care package for the holidaze also included a tidy pair of 2.5m white QED XT 2S speaker cable with spring-loaded bananas; twin WiFi antennae; a Schuko power cord; magnetized speaker grills; and quick-start guide. All of that I left in the box. The soft-touch remote features on/off, mute, input select, ± volume, display brightness, info and four basic transport buttons for last, next, play/pause and eject. That I left out of the box. In the tiny speaker boxes sat very short lossy port bungs. Those clearly didn't defeat the ports but added some mild flow resistance; what posh buyers call aperiodic loading. Those I left in. The remote's 'info' button showed incoming PCM converted to Norbert's default DSD. Hitting 'play' in Audirvana netted instant proof of life and rude health. Simple was good indeed. Granted, at €4'050 combined, today's kit is far from Electric Avenue starter stuff. Just so it's minimalist simplicity to a 't'. And with that it's also an affront to SnobFi and the associated worship of complexity, size and weight. It's when we judge today's performance in the correct setting that said worship reeks of idle idolatry. Now this tale unfolds in earnest.