Wow, a blast from the past. I have never heard the 7Ts, buy based on this thread I purchased the 9s and owned them for years. I really enjoyed the clean, dynamic, and somewhat warm sound of the Model 9s. They sounded good on a variety of rock, pop, and blues music. Two caveats, they need some power (at least 200 wpc) to really come to life and IMO the bass is probably the weakest aspect of the speaker because they can overwhelm a smaller room and the bass reflex design can result in some degree of boominess in certain rooms/situations, IME.
I recently moved to the slightly less expensive LR5s and I believe the bass is even better with a pair of 9-inch woofers in each sealed (i.e., acoustic suspension), very inert box. The bass on the LR5s rolls off at about 40Hz but I augment them with a pair of SW12s and the result in the bass is vastly superior IMO to the Model 9s alone. The cleaner bass performance also seems to improve on the mids and high frequencies in my room. However, the LR5s need even more power as their sensitivity is only 86dB. I am happy with the change to the LR5s plus two subs and Michael Kelly told me that set-up is about as good as it gets with his products.
I recently moved to the slightly less expensive LR5s and I believe the bass is even better with a pair of 9-inch woofers in each sealed (i.e., acoustic suspension), very inert box. The bass on the LR5s rolls off at about 40Hz but I augment them with a pair of SW12s and the result in the bass is vastly superior IMO to the Model 9s alone. The cleaner bass performance also seems to improve on the mids and high frequencies in my room. However, the LR5s need even more power as their sensitivity is only 86dB. I am happy with the change to the LR5s plus two subs and Michael Kelly told me that set-up is about as good as it gets with his products.