watts are watts but tube amps dont really create an ear screetching nightmare when they are over driven, they just run out of steam, especially in the bass.
for maggies there is not a tube amp in your budget that i would recommend.
Question about wpc on tube amps
I have been kind of looking at tube amps based on what people seem to think about them.
Here is my question- whenever I look at the wpc, they are remarkably low vs. a solid state amp for the money.
It leaves me scratching my head. Then, somewhere I read that you can't compare a tube amp with a solid state amp . Something along the lines of "10 watts of tube power equals 100 watts in a SS amp".
What? Is this real? Seems unlikely to me.
Are the wildly low power ratings on the tube amps I am looking at simply due to the fact I am looking at $1,000 amps vs the bajillion dollar amps you guys buy?
Would I be better off spending the money on a tube preamp for the "tube" sound I always hear about.
I am running Magnepan . 7's with a Bryston amp. Since the . 7's are power hogs are tubes even a realistic thing for me in my lowish budget?
Thanks!