I’m sure both the Ayre and BAT are very nice amps but are you sure they’ll have enough juice to push your Aerial’s to their potential, especially in your room? I would check on that before you make the purchase. I have 7B’s and on those the sweet spot was getting an amp that can deliver 250 watts at 8 ohm; amps 200 watts and less definitely worked but they fell short a little.
I don’t play loud, but on smaller amps my Aerials needed to be pushed more to be enjoyable whereas my current amp I can listen to low levels and and not feel the need to crank it up.
I don’t play loud, but on smaller amps my Aerials needed to be pushed more to be enjoyable whereas my current amp I can listen to low levels and and not feel the need to crank it up.