I'm buying the Acoustech's. I haven't listened to many speakers, all I have been doing for the last 1.5 month's is researching speakers on the internet. I read about and listened to two expensive speakers, took the specs and now trying to find similar specs at cheaper prices, within a 1200 dollar budget.
For the money, hands down, I have not found anything that compares to the acoustechs. They look good, I'm sure they sound good. I'm looking strictly for home theater so the horn tweeter doesn't bother me.
The specs are 8 ohm, at 96 db sensitivity. So any decent receiver will drive them nicely. At more than twice the price, the klipsch ref series has 98 db sensitivity, polk rti8 has 90db sensitivity.
My title here isn't audioholic samurai, but for a little over 1000 bucks, you get two towers, a 12" sub, a center channel and 4 surrounds. Now my only knock is that the center at 8"hx22"w and the surrounds at 10"hx14"w are pretty big.
My twnhse basement is small 17'dx13'w, with a fireplace in 1 corner, so the speaker size may be an issue with the wife, but at 96 db sensitivity and close proximity to the seating position, I won't have to turn them up that loud to get enjoyment from a movie.
Also, the surrounds have 2 drivers and a tweeter, all pointing in different directions, so I have to be creative when positioning them in my basement, (any advice here would be helpful)
. The back of the couch is up against a wall, so the rear surrounds have to be mounted on the same wall. Maybe put them on the ceiling, pointing downwards at an angle?
In any event, those speakers are a great buy, and the next house will have a better set-up.
Besides the venturi speakers aren't much for looks.
http://www.acousticsounddesign.com/core/view_BigProduct.cfm?pid=1061&sc=32