Here's another angle that may or may not be of interst to you...first, how big is the room that your putting all this stuff in? I think that will have a huge impact on determining what the best choices would be for you HT/music system effort!...huge!
My experience, as both an avid audiophile and an a professional exotic custom home theater designer, is that these speaker choices your considering are not really going to maximize your HT experince as well as others on the market! While you may or may not end up being enamored with the Aerial for your 2 channel music needs ultimately, these speakers, like most hi-end dainty out there (example; Thiels, B&W's, Revels, ETc...), ultimately just won't be on any serious studio mixers playback list for speakers any time soon!
See the deal is that what your going to end up with with these speakers is polite, delicate, laidback, dynamically sluggish, and overall uninvolving home theater from them!...certainly the antithesis of what a good HT dedicated design is all about. And, certainly unless your putting all this stuff in a smaller space,and EQing out the sytem to take more of the room out of the equation, your resulting HT exerience I think will be a dissapointing one for the money you're throwing at it!!!
May I make a more blanket suggestion, and recommend you look into some of the more home theater designed hi-end speaker offerings out there, especially the "powered" ones!!!
Infinity is making some absolutely stellar Music/HT designs in the MTS Prelude Series. These are amazing HT/music speakers that also happen to be rated Class A by Stereophile pressently!...World Class infact.
What a speaker like this offers, that you won't get with your Aerial offerings, is world class refinement, infinitely more focused dynamic sound with less room coloration and interaction (yet still open sounding), a much stronger efforless pressentation, and much better dialog intelligability!...not to mention your getting stereo powered 850 watt rms subs a side, that effectively biamp your system, and are fully EQ'd with their own built in Equalizers! (single biggest problem in most commercial rooms is bass response!).
I've sold it all, installed it all, and owned most of it at one time or another. And you simply can't beat these Infinity Prelude MTS offerings for a double dubty, hi-end, audiophile grade music/HT speaker!...no way!
The sytem also come with matching center and rears, of course. Dynamics, refined audiohile world class sound quality, built in 850 watt subs, EQ's, best built quality around, and all for $8k/pr!....I don't think you can beat these speakers for multipurpose actually...and there you are.
