Need help understanding tube wpc


My equipment has always been solid state so bear with me (i'm sure this has been asked before but having trouble finding the threads) . I don't follow the wpc differences between SS and tubes and how to match tube power with speaker efficiency to ensure that they'd be driven okay.

Thanks
facten

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Theoretically, I don't believe there is any electrical difference between a ss watt and a tube watt--a watt's a watt. But lots of people think that, since, among other things, tubes overload more gracefully than transistors, you don't need as many 'tube watts' as you do 'ss watts'. I've never seen anyone state a 'factor' by which you could multipy (or divide) ss watts to get 'equivalent' tube watts,,,but maybe someone here knows.