Aerial 20T / Eggleston Savoy

Good post Michael457. Always good to learn a lesson from someone else's hard-won experience. Thanks.

the Savoys are MUCH larger than the aerial speakers- the andra's would make a better comparison. my room is 20 X 14 and the andra's were more than adequate in
every department. i have to admit i was using transparent reference-MM wires throughout which extended the bass response quite a bit. there is however something to be said for the carbon-fiber midrange units in the andra-three's that should offer a significant increase in midrange transparency and speed. i don't care for the redesign of the cabinets (IMHO) however- i am convinced that the andra-I had the most expensive speaker cabinet to produce and therefore was discontinued.
there is no reason in my mind however that the savoys can't be tweaked to perform better based on how room-friendly the andras are. which version btw did you have (there are a few different series)? but in any case they are HUGE speakers with alot of LARGE drivers- somewhat overkill to begin with. P.S.- AND THEN there are the IVY's- a wise choice if you want to amplify the local garage band...

I have a 22' x 13' x 9' listening room, and the Andra IIs produce thunderous bass in it. One look at the Savoys and I knew better than to try--open them up to high volume and the bass reflections would probably cancel each other out, leaving either a muddle or what appears to be just what you heard, a lack of bass. But it should also be pointed out that putting any twelve (?) year old speaker design up against the 20T, one of the best speakers I have ever heard, which wasn't around ten-twelve years ago, is asking a lot of the older speaker. I love my Andra IIs, but there is now an Andra III, and I am sure Eggleston had a reason for the model change; they don't do them often.

as far as i can tell from the andra-3 specs the improvement would be found in the use of a pair of new carbon-fiber midranges.
they should be faster and more transparent than the morel drivers in the andra-one and A-2. BUT at the same time, the andra-3 cabinets imho do not look like the same amount of money and effort went into them. the andra-one cabinets had TWO INCH THICK PANELS of italian granite bracing the sides of the midrange and tweeter column. if that is considered to no longer be an advantage in controlling resonances, then i would like to know what the new cabinets have to offer (other than an "updated look").
as for the low frequencies and the tweeter, from my perspective the A-3 doesn't (seem to) offer anything new. no doubt the crossover is probably re-worked to accommodate the behaviour/frequency response of the new midrange drivers. BUT OF COURSE if anyone reading these forums would weigh in on the performance, good or bad, of the Andra-3's, i would be most grateful. until then i guess we must wait (again) for stereophile to review a pair.

I had the 10T's for years. You cannot go wrong with the 20T's.