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

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I got mine from someone who had been driving them with a 50 wpc tube amp in a room about 12 x 15. He had been very happy with that combination. ( Sold because of low WAF for multiple systems. ) Other sources have also been happy with the Shearwaters ( 88-89 dB/W sensitivity ) combined with tube amps in that power range.

I myself am using a ss Celeste W-4070se ( about 70 wpc ) with my Shearwaters There is gobs of power for my 15 by 22 room.

Another possibility might be Reference 3a. The DeCapos are rated at 92 dB/W. I heard them do very well with Antique Sound Lab 10w tube monoblocs at the 2001 Montreal show.