I am TORN between Tube power amp and SS power amp.

My 91db speakers sounded fabulous and played plenty loud and clear with a Dennis Had 12 watt (or maybe 17 watts...not sure) per side amp, but I switched to 99db Klipsch Heresy IIIs mostly to keep Almarg happy, as I deign to avoid his ire. 

:-)

Best regards,
-- Al

If the 91dB mentioned above is the sensitivity, then all that speaker needs is 1 watt to produce 91dB sound level at 1 meter. So there's no surprise that a 12 wpc amp can and will sound loud (clear is a subjective term) enough in a moderately small room. Other factors, which one could argue that are more important, are the speaker's efficiency as well as the way its impedance behaves across its frequency spectrum. Throw a piece of content with wide dynamic range and lots of transients, something like a large orchestral western classical music content, and the weaknesses become glaringly clear. Vocals, single instrumentals, and small bands like jazz trios, etc., not so much. 

Thank you very much for your informative replies. Especially to you #almarg and #kalali. You are very helpful guys! I really appreciate your feedback.

Cheers!🙂

I run both a solid state phono stage generally viewed as one of the best ever made, and a tube phono stage (CJ Premier 15).  Both give satisfaction.

Suggest that you seek out a good sounding phono stage and not worry about what the internals are.