Powerful Tube Amp for SF Strads?

Wow! Thanks for the quick responses! Appreciate the advice. Have also received from direct emails from fellow A'goners looking to help...thanks to you as well.

I have been invited to audition Wavac MD805s. I will try to find place that carries VTL, CAT and VAC (in London UK).

As for Pass, i've seen many A'Goners like Pass with SF's. Personally, i do love the earlier SF speakers (Electa Amator, Extrema) with SS like Krell...OTOH Guarneri, Amati and Strad i somehow associate with tubes. Given Ackman00's recommendations, i will keep an open mind...SS with the extreme palpability of a great tube could be perfect! Thanks again to all.

...oh and Cary & Wolcott of course! Thanks, Audiograils and Unsound.

I would think a VAC Phi 300.1 or two would do the job nicely.

Cheers,
John

CAT JL2 or 3 for sure, I think they can handle most any load and with 100 watts of Class A, Triode power they avoid what Raquel alludes to regarding high-power tube amps, they tend not to sound as good as their lower-power bretheren (assuming the lower power remains sufficient power to drive the speakers).

I must say that is quite a challange. A tube amp with moderately resistive speakers but not near the tubes output impedance, instead it drops precipitously and creating a worsened output mismatch and less power.
Hmmm.
There is an easy fix. Simply buy the tube amp with a monster power supply and if possible an output coupler. In common terms this means get a tube amp with the biggest transformers you can and ignore total or rms wpc. Those watts mean nothing. My 60 wpc Jadis DA-60 just doesn't clip although I haven't tried to make it explode it handles everything I want it to. Also The Kilovolt power trannie 211 or 845 PP amps provide plenty of foundation. Honestly That is where the music is -in the trannies once the major obstacles are met then subtleties can come in and do their thing.
Thus I congratulate you on the wisdom of thinking Wavac and LLam. Those are perfectly good examples of "transformers make the music."