Amp for Aerial 10T

FWIW, I heard them once with Pass X1000's, truly impressive.

I had the Aerial 8's which are quite similar to the 10's. I used two Classe CA-150's to power them. The bass was tight and the highs were there as they should be. The Aerial's love power. They just sing when properly powered. Hope this helps. Steve

I have heard them with McIntosh, Classe, McCormack and Plinius - each at or over 250 SS watts.

Of all, the Plinius was the most relaxed realistic presentation. Huge soundstage, great detail and dynamic range. Number two was the Classe overall though the McCormack had better midrange bloom it did not have the low end performance of either the Classe or Plinius.

With enough juice the Aerials soar. I would personally love to hear them with a Boulder amp.

A good friend & fellow audio bud has the 10T's & ran them for yrs. w/Pass 350. He sold that & got a big Blue Circle amp & is using a Hovland pre. I have yet to hear that setup because he moved, but he tells me it's even better than w/the Pass & First Sound.

I also heard a different set of 10T's w/Pass 600 monoblocks. It was an even better presentation than the 350.

I'm not a fan of metal dome tweeters but he had his modified so they weren't as forward sounding & with the addition of a tube pre, these sound very good w/plenty of bass impact.

I'm running mine with older model Classe CA301's in the HT. These were my 2-ch speakers several years ago. IMO the best sound I was able to achieve was with the one 301 on the right woofer and another on the left, with my PP Lectron powering the mid/tweeter of both speakers. The gains of the amps need to be very close to do this, but the 10Ts really opened up.

I have also heard the 10t powered by some huge ML amps. The more power, the more this speaker likes it.