yes as said below, the position of the volume knob is a red herring w.r.t. amp power ... it really doesn’t have much to do with when the amp will start to exhaust its power reserves and start to clip - input sensitivity and gain of the input tubes account for that rotary position as much as speaker sensitivity
i agree with what others have stated... stick w what you have... i think the 2 tubes per channel models would if anything, sound a touch cleaner than the 4 tube/channel models... that has been my experience with audio research amps... a minute very subtle difference that can become significant as tubes age and matched sets grow apart - the pl amps have auto bias so this may be somewhat minimized but it is still a consideration
my experience with my hp amp is that rolling the two middle 12au7’s can alter the sound character a good bit, as well as, of course, the power tubes ... pl amps give the user a lot to do (triode / ul too) - fun amp to own