Sonus Faber Auditor with 20 tube watts?


The auditors aren't super efficient (88db) and they have a lowish impedence (4 ohm). I've got a Primaluna Dialogue 1 integrated and prefer triode mode which is something like 18 watts. Fortunately I have a small room so volume has never been a problem with my current Paradigm Signature S2s.

Will the Sonus Faber's be a sufficient match? Does anyone have experience with lower output tube amps and this speaker? Will the load be too difficult?
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Showing 1 response by larryi

My guess is maybe. In a small room, you wouldn't want to crank any speaker up because the room would overload too readily. Twenty watts is a whole lot, provided you don't demand extreme volume and expect movie sound effects kind of bass.

I've heard quite a number of smaller, supposedly not high efficient speakers play at reasonable levels in small rooms with no difficulty driven by anything from 5 watts to 18 (single ended and pushpull amps).