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Like the 6T but don't have the room or the cash?
The 5T is on the way, very little details but priced aiming for below four grand.
Interesting. The 6T's are just too big for me.
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After years of reading 'glowing' reviews on Aerial, when I got my opportunity to audition, I was disappointed to say the least.
These are not bad speakers per se, simply not, excellent?
I owned a pair of rosewood 10T's for years.
Loved their design with just the right amount of heft with the Sound Anchor stands.
So-so mids and highs, but when dialed in correctly to a room, the bass was simply phenomenal. The tightest, deepest, most well-defined, musical bass I've ever encountered. Just phenomenal in the bass dept.
In two separate homes / rooms no less. Bearing in mind, it took me 9 months in the second room of careful placement before achieving bass similar to the first room. Not quite on par with the first room, but oh so close.
I remember a bass player was listening to my system and he saw that I had an 18-inch subwoofer next to one of the 10T's and he said the subwoofer sounded fabulous.
When I went over and showed him that the sub's plug was not plugged into the wall (I hadn't used or needed the sub for months), he couldn't believe it.
If I thought for a second I could properly upgrade the mid-range and tweeters to something like ScanSpeak's higher-end drivers and was confident in what I was doing (mating the drivers), I'd give the 10T's another shot in a heartbeat.
Even today with a far superior music presentation including full-range VPMS RM40 speakers and a recently acquired musical 15" subwoofer, I still cannot match the depth and consistently overall bass musicality of the 10T's properly dialed in.
And again, their design/style was frickin' cool.
Thanks! for sharing- stehno.
My thoughts precisely, a so-so speaker, overall.
I bought a pair of 7Bs a few years ago. I think I sold them within the week on Agon. Merely "ok" speakers in my mind.
Oz
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
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My thoughts precisely!- OZ.
If you recall.
Just curious.
I think that the Model 20 is a great loudspeaker.
jm
JM-
models 7t & 6t.
I would like to demo the 10T/20T as a point of reference.
Gee, those should have been better than average.
I think that it might be the case that because Aerial is not a "snob" brand, their speakers usually get partnered with "affordable" electronics and cables.
I have heard the 20T sound thrilling, but with a Plinius SA-250 power amp. An amp that cannot handle the difficult phase angle and impedence combination, at least of the v.1, could make that speaker sound like nothing special.
I get the idea that Aerial the company might be "cable agnostic" too... .
JM
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