Mike at Precision has even outdown himself, in my opinion. He is showing the new Venture upgraded speaker, which only has 2 7" woofers; a 5" midrange, and 2" tweeter; all proprietary designs with underhung voice coils and Abacaca carbon drivers, powered by a single Hegle amp, and using his FMS speaker cables. It was the most amazing listening experience I ever enjoyed; besting the Wilsoh Shasha audition I had at Brooks-Berdan, and the Magico Q-5's powered by EAR tubed gear at Weinhart designs. I was floored by the prodigious base and low end response from this smallish floor stander; and the high detail; spacial ques, sound stage was not to be believed. I did purchase a pair of the Excellence III's from Mike; which was the prior model in the line; but these new drives and current production run speakers are just amazing; hard to do justice with words..but I echo the sentiment of the above posters... these sounded better to my ears than the larger version he demo'd at THE SHOW in Newport this past summer; that room did not do the Venture speaker's justice...try to hear them at RMAF and make your own evaluation...expensive; but worth it...
Venture Audio Speakers
I currently own the Venture Excellence Loudspeaker, and I was very happy to see the favorable review by Dick Olsher in the current issue of the Absolute Sound (November, 2008). This amazing line of speakers, that is manufactured in Belgium, deserves better recognition in the U.S. Market.
I have had numerous other great speakers in my reference system (B&w, Aerials, Wilsons,...etc) to list a few. However, when I first heard the Venture's at a store (Precision Audio & Video, Distributor/Dealer), I was amazed by the amount of Resolution, Detail, and Tonal Neutrality that they offered.
Now, that I have these speakers in my system, the level of realism that I am experiencing is unprecedented in my audiophile experience. The sense of recreating a "Live Event" with all music genres is phenomenal.
Also, I have learned that the famed audiophile mastering engineer, Steve Hoffman, currently uses these speakers in his studio.
As a U.S. audiophile, I hope that this line of speakers gets the recognition that it deserves as a world class speaker, and that it continues to get reviews in the U.S.