Venture's Vici 2.1 speaker system ($36,000 total), which mates the AW500 subwoofer with the slim Vici towers, may have looked rather slight for the huge space it occupied, but it managed to fill it with surprisingly big sound.
It's a very lively sound that clearly pleases some people—one publication reportedly gave it Best of Show at the 2013 New York Show—but strikes me as overly crisp. The very effective sub, whose output was set at 25Hz–1kHz, intentionally overlapped the towers, which went from 70Hz—60kHz. Driving the speaker system were Venture's V200A+ MOSFET, class-A, 200Wpc monoblocks ($125,000/pair).
