Best speaker for medium to low power tube amps??


I need advice on speaker selection..they will go in a 19' x 13' x 8' room..my budget is roughly 5k, open to new or used..tube amps roughly 20-70 watts must be the ideal match for these..narrowed my choices to the Merlin VSM-M, Sonus Faber Guerneri, Quad 989 and am open to other suggestions..I'm currently leaning to the Merlin but my only reservation is they are so revealing I will be changing components upstream continually and never finding sonic happiness..thnaks in advance for your responses.
jman

Showing 1 response by elorian

You might want to consider Revel Performa F30s; I am running them in a 12.5x19.5x8 room with a Jolida SJ502a which puts out ~60Watts/ch (I am using Ei KT90 power tubes; I'm not sure if that increases the power at all, but the amp is rated to deliver 60/ch).

I wanted a speaker that did deep bass as well as a really nice midrange and good detail/air etc. Having auditioned several in the 3-5k price range I settled on the Revels and am very happy I did. I was a little concerned that the amp would not be able to drive them well, but it has no trouble at all (I rarely take the volume past 25%; beyond this the SPLs become quite uncomfortable, though not at all distorted- I just can't listen that loud for any length of time :).

As always, audition before you buy :).