Duevel's "Venus "Speaker or Shaninian's "Obelisk". Which offers the best sound quality?

Hi Guys,

Just a few precisions (after staying away from forums for 20 years...but Tim's kind comment pushed me to come here):- I am NOT retired; my website says "Semi-retired"... funny how, amongst the many countries I sold to, only the US seems confused :)- I had a US and Canadian dealer's network... the best of them gave up, seeing how much "bargain hunting" happened with North-American customers; also many customers took their time then looked at the used market... My new direct distribution allows me, since 2008, to offer very low price with full warranty, and in 10 years I heard only but compliments from the end users.- Duevel relays us all enquiries; the reason they asked us to take care of the US market is that they didn't find a distributor they like... that's their right, it's a personal thing.- The most important: since I started in 1978 in Europe (I ran 6 distributions companies, and 2 manufacturing ones), I ALWAYS advocated direct listening-based decisions. Hence it is VERY unfortunate that the customer's bargain-hunting PLUS most dealers' lack of integrity (so many claimed to be serving their customers with passion, I saw so many pure money-makers) ended up with this lack of local representation. I received many proposals from good-willing people, but now that my prices are so low, there is no room for them.

- About Duevel: I sold 5 brands of omnis in the 80' - 90'... then gave up because, as much as i loved so many things, they didn't focus properly... or lacked coherence. 10 years ago I abandoned my own brand, Equation, because Duevel fixed all this, and sounded closer to a live event than everything I tried in 19 years, at all prices...
Kind regards,
Pascal Ravach
Mutine

@mutine what is starting model and price landed USA ?

The Planets, as mentioned above.
Price depends of
- finish (black in permanent stock)
- value of the euro
- speed of delivery if not for a color in stock (means grouped or special order).
Have a look at www.duevel.com then let me know by email, with your full address info for the shipping calculation.

Best,
Pascal

+1 For the Shahinian Obelisk's! I sat next to Richard Shahinian for hours as he demoed them using various classical LP's! I was impressed! He offered to sell me the demo pair for $450! Regretfully I passed it up!

Hi Pascal, nice to see you drop by, and also give some more information out to the masses. Well, maybe not masses...

i have to say, I am very pleased with my Venus, music coming along nicely at around the 250 or so hour mark. More to come in due time.

i realize that this thread was started talking about comparisons of Duevel Venus to Shahinian Obelisk, I owned Obelisk 2 for a period of time a few years ago. Both speakers do things a bit differently of course, and while I liked the Obelisk, I could never quite get them to sound right in my current room. The Duevel Venus just seems to fit and was much easier to implement. 

I wont go into it all, so many things come in to play, there isn’t necessarily a one “size” fits all. I am very glad that I decided to give the Venus a try though. Thanks again Pascal, for helping me get there! 

Tim