Aerial 9s--is there a lot more bass than 10Ts?

your insincts are correct...the 10 is easier to tame in most rooms.

Thanks Jaybo.
I used to own 10Ts and liked them because they
"did no harm" and sounded nice and fluid on any
recording I threw at them. So I am looking again
at Aerial, but the 9s and even 20Ts seem to be too
big and would have too much bass for the fairly
nearfield situation I have (~ 7 feet from the
front of the speaker).

They never really replaced the 10T with an
equivalent speaker, as the 20T requires a much
bigger space. I wish they would bring back
a 10T version 2.

It is interesting that the 7B has been around
(essentially unchanged, it looks like) since
the mid 1990's (and the 5 & 6 also, I believe).
There is also the LR5, but I don't know where that fits in.

There is a 7C on the way to replace the 7B...may be worth checking out. I get low end extension in the mid-20s with my 7Bs in a modest-sized room (14.5 x16.5 x9) with no "bass boom."

the build cost of a new version of the 10t would be very very high compared to the original...a sign of the times...the simple one box designs are easier to make and ship.

Thanks for the replies. I wonder whatever happened to the "Novalith" material used in the 10T head unit. Maybe that was the source of its nice, pleasant, midrange tonality and smooth highs.

And sdrenslow, thanks for that info. A new 7C? Wow, a revision after 13+ years (I believe). Bob Kelly does take his time to get things right I guess.

I really did enjoy the 10Ts, by the way.
I hope the new 7's have the nice deep but non-boomy bass
(even near to the wall behind them) I heard in the 10Ts.
I never heard the 7's, but would you say the bass is non-boomy?

Someone once wrote here that, after many other
speakers with all sorts of audiophile tricks of the trade that had fatiguing downsides, that they
just returned to straightforward Aerials to
be done with it. They are a real
do-no-harm speaker (at least the 10Ts were).
I kind of feel the same way.
You just plop them down and they sound good even with
modest upstream equipment (I had them with a $2500 Aragon 8008 amp and an $800 CAL Icon CD player in the mid 1990s.
But a later Pass X350 transformed the mid+highs and especially vocals into a glorious sound.)
No, the wall didn't drop away behind them and they didn't
totally disappear, but they just made you feel good for hours on end.)

Any comments on all this rambling are welcome.
Thanks again for reading.