Anyone listened to Aerial 9's?

I own the 9's, running with Rowland 201's and Aesthetix Calypso. They are really great. I wasn't a big fan of Aerial prior to the new line, but now I can't say enough good things.

Music? Everything from folk to chamber to jazz to world, but lots of straightforward rock and roll.

Room? 15 x 26 x 7'9" -- dedicated listening room, good sounding.

I've owned Maggies, Hales, Spendors, Linns, Soliloquys, and ADS speakers, and I auditioned Sonus Fabers (Cremona), Vienna Acoustics (can't recall which one -- but the one in the 9k price range), Martin Logans (prodigy? protege?), Joseph Audios (22si or something like that), Paradigms (the one that is around 6-8k) and a few more. The only one that I liked about as well were Wilson Sophias, and the Aerials were cheaper, deeper, more precise and better looking. And all of these speakers were very fine.

Buy the optional stands! I did and first thing, they spike the speaker to the floor amazingly well and second, you can tip them back just slightly and that has a wonderful effect on the sound. The stands are $700 but worth every penny.

You won't be sorry.

Rich

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Totally outclassed by the B&W 802D'S??? To audition a speaker which i bet was only once with unfamilier equipment, room, cables, inner-conects, power and placement how could you possibly even form an permament opinion of the model 9? I owned the Aerial 10t's which i sold and upgraded to the model 9's. If anyone would like accuate information on the Aerial model 9's please feel free to email me at the address below.
twincityelectric@yahoo.com
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Raising this from the dead. Has anyone compared the Aerial Acoustics Model 9 to the 7T?

Tweeter on the 7T is better, but the model 9 has a special je ne sais quois that prevented me from 'upgrading'.

I also prefer the look of the 9 vs the somewhat more standard 7T!

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.