How do you properly size a speaker?


I have a 40x2 watt 4 or 8 ohm tube amp. I am very inexperianced when it comes to proper set up. I literally just bought the cheapest vintage speakers I could find with a name I knew they had no ratings i had to find that info later. I noticed some speakers have a span for wattage like 30 to 75 watts for example. I bought a pair of cerwin vega L7s for 50$ I saw that they are rated 75watt and 8ohm, there is no spectrum on the wattage that I could find. Does that mean I am running them under powered with a 40 watt amp? These are like smaller monitor speakers, would it make a difference to run the bigger floor speakers? Seems like I have seen bigger floor speakers with bigger woofers and more tweeters with wattage ratings from 30 and up? Correct me if I'm wrong I'm just curios because I will be buying a home soon and I was thinking about getting some bigger speakers when I have the room for them.
gguy767
I find the room and system depend on my personal taste.

Even though my floor standers are capable I use subwoofers with remote control capability as the loudness button to vary low frequency volume level and their slightly equalized presets for musical genre.

Some recordings simply don't need the low end support, so - subs off.   


How do you properly size a speaker?


Sensitivity. Look for at least a 96.


Like others have stated look for good sensititvy above 94 / 96 at the very least
But also and this is important with any SS amp not only tube amps like yours, the nominal impedance at the very minimum 8 ohms, if 10 ohms even better and 16 ohm you won't find many speakers on this range. Key word BTW is nominal which is the entire impedance including drivers, crossover etc presented to your amp