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

I run the entry level Duevel Planets in my Great room system and for what they are I can't complain, they look like a piece of art and fill a pretty good sized room with pleasing full range sound.  Duevels don't have much of a footprint here in the states so I can't imagine anyone has heard the Venus and would have direct comparisons to the Obelisk. If you haven't checked Shahinians prices lately you may want to do that as they are really getting up there.  Shahinians rarely show up used so that speaks well for them and I'm not sure I've ever seen Duevels here on Agon so take that for what it's worth.  I've heard Obelisk's just once at an audio show here in metro Detroit, Blue Circle was using them in their demo room and I was mighty impressed.  Big, effortless full range sound and very dynamic, not sure if this helps but it's all I've got, good luck...

I must've been the last person to deal with Pascal as he was traveling quite extensively and had mentioned he was getting ready to hang em' up.  I was a bit reluctant to purchase the Duevels through a Canadian distributor that I knew nothing about, but after speaking with Pascal I decided to pull the trigger. Plus, it did't hurt that the Canadian exchange was very attractive at the time, I paid about $1,100 U.S. (Dec 2016). I read everything I could find on the Planets and hadn't seen a single negative thing written about them. Prior to the Planets I was running Ohm Walsh 3's as I've grown accustomed to the omni sound, but the wife and I are empty nesters now and we just moved in to our new condo which is very modern and the old Ohm's looked pretty out of place.  Now that I have a dedicated "man-loft" (Maggie's) our main great room system doesn't have to be the last word in resolution.  I can see you're in a bit of quandary as it seems that Marcus doesn't seem too interested in expanding his interests here in the states which sucks for you as the whole Duevel line has gotten rave reviews.  Keep us posted as to what you find out...