Question for Aerial 20T Owners


I am considering the purchase of Aerial 20-T's. One feature of this speaker that may be a real issue for me, however, is its use of a ribbon tweeter that has virtually no vertical dispersion above the top of the tweeter, the result being that persons who are standing evidently receive no high frequencies. While I would buy the speaker principally for my own critical listening in the "sweetspot", my wife and I do quite a bit of entertaining, and I would not want a speaker that sounds totally unnatural or otherwise odd due to a lack of treble to persons standing in the listening room (or even to persons sitting in the dining room, which is immediately adjacent to the listening room).

Both my listening room and all adjacent rooms have mostly hard surfaces and wooden floors, so sound does travel from room to room.

My question is thus to 20-T owners: how natural (or bad or weird) does the speaker sound to those who are standing or who are off axis? Very importantly, how does it sound in adjacent rooms? Is the effect similar to being off-axis for an electrostatic (sounds horrible) or a time-coherent design (still sounds good, but not nearly as good as it does in the sweetspot)? If for any reason you are not comfortable responding publicly via this thread, please e-mail me.

I would simply demo the 20-T's to find out for myself, but there is no display pair anywhere near me (São Paulo).

Thank you.
dearing
Raquel
Delicate equipment and crowds in a confined space are'nt a good match. Every precaution should be taken to avoid disaster...unless you don't care.
Okay , I might be biased a bit but I deserve it.. We are a aerial dealer in NJ who have personally installed 5 pairs of these in the last few months.. They are by far the smoothest most incredible imaging speakers on earth. We get to hear everything and there are alot of good. The 20T stands all by itself. The imaging is superb with Bass control that makes you realize that a speaker can have it all.

I invite you to listen andtime your want..

They are a lifetime investment with everyone saying the same thing. THEY LOVE THEM !

Bets of luck
Craig
I have 20t's here now on audition. I'm going to buy them.

Running Levinson 390S direct into a pair of Levinson 33H.
Transparent reference balanced interconnects, Acoustic Zen
Hologram II Biwire Speaker cable.

If you are looking for "boom and sizzle" these aren't for you. A natural and relaxed presentation with speed and great dynamics. The tweeters are the best I've heard.

Not a speaker that wows you at first, however after extended listening with familiar music.......then come the wows.

I've been through planars from big Maggies thrue Infinity IRS Beta to large arrays such as the B&W Matrix 800. The 20t's so far are the most well balanced speaker I've had here yet. I'm also finding them music friendly, CD's I haven't played in awhile are back in rotation.

I'm satisfied!

Best,

Paul :-)
Hi Paul....as an Infinity RS 1-B owner how does the bass on the Aerial 20 compare to your Beta's? In addition, had you given the Wilson Watt Puppy 7 a look and listen? I'd appreciate you commenst and others on this subject.

Hey, why not add on to those above the Von Schweikert..7's or the Joseph Pearls??

RWD