For a start at 20cm it’s way too tall for a soundbar. It will not snuggle under your telly, you’ll have to make room for it. But it’s because it’s big that it sounds so good. There are six decently sized drivers in there, two 2.5cm soft dome tweeters, two 7.5cm mids and a couple of 12.5cm woofers, powered by six 50-watt digital amplifiers. You don’t get drivers this big in the great bulk of soundbars, and no matter what you’re told it is an immutable law of physics that bigger drivers sound better.

So unlike lots of soundbars the Music-7 reproduces music beautifully; just what it was designed to do in the first place. Nor is it black or silver, the preferred colours of soundbars. Choose between red, blue or two shades of grey. And unlike lots of soundbars, it doesn’t promise stuff it doesn’t deliver, like surround sound. It comes with an app, Wi-Fi, AptX Bluetooth and an optical connection, a USB and a 3.5mm minijack input. And you get a nine-month sub to Tidal. You’ll be aware of the build quality as soon as you pick it up; it’s just this side of eight kilograms.

I listened to lots of music and after dialling down the powerful bass it performed nicely, with crisp, well defined highs and strong midrange. It fills even very large spaces effortlessly and effectively. But it was when I put on a Blu-ray disc that it blew me away. The post office robbery in Baby Driver is a sensational fusion of action and music; the action, even the gunshots, are in time with a fast, gutsy piece from 1971 by Dutch rock group Focus called Hocus Pocus. Turned up loud, and the Music-7 goes very loud indeed without distortion, it made the sequence an adrenalin pump of excitement.

Bonuses: It’s dead easy to set up and to use, and it looks good.