Port of many calls? Each stack packs five ports; three in the base, two on the monitor. If I were a late single Viking visiting Ireland, I'd be confused where to dock for the best maid raid. Confusing from a minimum-friction perspective whereby rollerball isolation works best with the very hardest of races, Jun now lines his with a rubbery compound. That already showed indentations and wear because he'd obviously had a good listen before packing up my loaner loot. Perhaps early VC1 customers had complained of overlong settle times with the original nude and shallow races? If so, they didn't understand how wobbly type isolation works. Being loaners, I left the rubbery surfacing in. Were these mine, I'd remove it. Shimmying sex is far better without rubbers. Once I'd written that, Young commented: "The cushions on the ball bearings are simply to avoid scratches since your loaners will move to Auden Distribution. If this set was going to an end user, we'd not put them in. Adding soft pads goes against converting mechanical resonances to kinetic energies so defeats the purpose. For your review, you may remove them if you prefer." Done; though a lot easier said when the glue proved far stronger than the foam. I had to scrape out the latter in messy glue-mixed bits with something much softer than aluminium to prevent scratches. I used the blunt fat end of a bamboo chopstick. The foam mostly came out but a sticky residue remained. Bad idea never to be repeated. Still, the ball bearings now worked far better; a point of distinction with a high-output woofer stroking away right below.

Just like the VC1's dissimilar ports and their L/R designations, so do the bases use asymmetry in their ports to be marked left and right respectively.

To document trim level, Jun had included both standard and Sanctus jumpers. The upper right photo shows the latter in black, the former in far thinner red and white. The provided footers with their flat floor-friendly bottoms conceal a single inner ball bearing without real play. It's ultra basic but due to diameter, wouldn't fit my proper Hifistay isolators which thus remained benched.

The compact columnar active black bass traps in the front corners work from 160Hz down.

Here are two very black very hard 5-driver towers of elegant proportions and clean 'Nordic' lines…

… looking at our dig's two other audiophile residents. This hookup is obviously in series so 4-way mode to high-pass the monitors and secure the more linear tuning for my first round.

Ivette & Chai hamming it up.