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Electrostatics and tubes

I am looking to get some new to me speakers,  I've been looking at options and would really like to try a set of planars "electrostatics".  I have read or heard somewhere that as far as speakers go they tend to be inefficient (85 to 89) vs.90+(db) on the Klipsch or Dali's I've been tossing around as a standard speaker option. I guess my question is would I need to worry about any over heating issues. I plan on using plenty of power with a set of VTA, M-125's to power them. I am looking at a lower budget set maybe Martin Logan ESL 9's or Magnepan 2.7i .    Just wondering I would hate to over heat a few hundred dollars worth of tubes if I don't need to.   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  don't roast me to bad I cry easy wink  thanks.    

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@russ69 

Well that is part of why I stated I would be using M-125's, I decided to go with the 125 watt mono blocks. not because of wanting ear splitting loud but to just have the power if needed,  I've always felt that it's better to have and not need over need the power and not have it.  Obviously a 125w tube amp is no match to the power that Parasound puts out. 

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@russ69 

No I get what you're saying,    and you basically answered my question earlier about the Maggie's, I've heard they are power hogs before.  And I was worried about under powering them and overheating the M-125's  I do know ML ESL11's have a sub amp built in, but the ESL 9's do not, so stick with the 11's.   But regardless I was thinking about possibly using a separate sub so that wouldn't matter.  Overall it seems most everyone that has answered so far believes a 125 watt would be good on a ML but not so much on a Maggie. Unless anyone has other suggestions on speakers under 5K. 🤔

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