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RE: Can I get by with 2 watts?

For the kind of efficiencies you mentioned, it is a bit "iffy" as to 2 watts working out. It would really depend on how much you are willing to compromise on maximum sound level and accepting some sound quality issues when the music gets modestly loud. Most tube amps are optimistically rated, so something that is supposedly a 2 watt amp will probably be struggling at something a little less than 1 watt.

I own three low-powered tube amps--two are pushpull and one is a parallel single-ended amp. The most powerful is the parallel single-ended amp which is rated at 6.5 watts. For my taste and listening practice, all of them have adequate power. Where power limitations seem to show up the most is with classical, large scale choral works. At crescendos, sometimes the voices seem a little bit muddled and sound levels will peak and not get louder at the rate they should (compression). My speakers are 99 db/w efficient.


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