What does clipping sound like?


I have been wondering if the break up distortion I hear with my 60 watt tube amps is because I have insufficient power for my 91db 6 ohm minimal speakers. I do question if that rating of my speakers is correct.
When the music swells, I get break up sound. It is not on low notes or high volume. I do wonder how my speakers would perform with a lot more power. I have always thought that any speaker likes more power.
mglik
"What does clipping sound like?"

It sounds like you’re going to have to spend some money.
+5 for TUBES. I'm certainly not a tube amplifier expert, but with all tube products I have dealt with, "if something is not right" Check or replace the tubes FIRST. I assume your tube preamp is older than the power amp? Start with that. See if you can swap out an entire component, preamp, then power amp to isolate problem.
I think it is mistracking. Miyajima Shalabi wt Triplanar arm. I don’t have this distortion on Netflix, etc.
Waiting on a Lyra Atlas SL.  Hope that is better.
Also distortion on new LPs so not just old, worn record sound.
I have blown a few cheap speakers with clipping in the past :-)

In my case, it sounded like a small hammer hitting the insides of the speaker enclosure, very very quickly followed by tweeter failures.

It may obviously be different for other speakers.