I use a 38-watt tube integrated on enormous vintage B&Ws that are 91 dB efficient and dip to 3 ohms in the midbass. The speakers were certainly designed to pair with high-current, high-wattage solid state.
The combo works for me, though I don't have a lot going on below about 50Hz. If you can live without low bass and midbass slam, tubes may make you very happy. My imaging and detail retrieval does not suck.
The combo works for me, though I don't have a lot going on below about 50Hz. If you can live without low bass and midbass slam, tubes may make you very happy. My imaging and detail retrieval does not suck.