Amp Upgrade for Aerial 10t's

Mike, I own Aerial 8's which have similar load requirements. I drive them with CA-150's as monoblocks. This recommendation is from my audio dealer-Overture and they were correct. The bass is tight and the treble is accurate. I use a CJ 14L as the pre. Hope this helps. The Classe amps are often on audiogon for reasonable money. Steve

mac mc352, mc402, etc.

I drove my 10t's for several years with a pair of Classe CA-301s. I take it you're using yours in a HT system so maybe you want to get the best LF slam you can. In my experience with the 10t's they need all of the quality power they can get. 250-300 watts per channel is about the minimum. They do start to sing at that point. I may be moving mine in the HT system soon.

Good luck,

Dan

To power the Aerials, I believe your best bang for the buck is a big solid state amp. I drive my Aerial 9's with a McCormack DNA 500 which is a great match. While these would not better my McCormack, I have been watching this ad and wondering how good they might sound:

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1155913376

some other possibilities:

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1155942345
(maybe find only one for sale, or better a 350 Reference)

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1155914421

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1155396878

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1154992041

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1154139842

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1153626378

Good luck.

The best amps I heard on 10Ts were:

Jeff Rowland Model 112
McCormack DNA-1 (but nowadays I would give the DNA-500 a try)

I also heard a Gryphon that was nice on them too.

These would be on my short list.

Good Luck!