If you buy a lot of equipment over the years you will find out that consumer grade receivers at 100 wpc have trouble keeping up with 25 wpc tube amps. You'll also find some 60 watt amps that kill 100 wpc receivers. The difference is power supplies. Good power supplies provide great experiences. The best way to stay on course is keep away from consumer electronics and buy quality audio from know good specialty manufacturers.
how can low watt tube amps drive speakers with higher power requirements
I am new to hifi and I am super confused about something. Most audio blogs out there ask newbies to stick to amps that output power within the recommended range of the speaker manufacturers. However, on forums, blogs and even some magazine articles, I find pros reviewing tube amps with much lower output power (even in some cases 10-30W below the speaker specs) and find no problems. How can these low power tube amp drive these speakers? For example, the LS 50 metas spec sheet says "Recommended amp power: 40W - 100W) but I have seen posts here and on other forums where people will hook these up to tube amps producing as low as 12W of power at 8 ohms. Am I missing something?