Bigboy,
Saka is just having some fun with you. Actually, watts are watts -- in that context there is no difference between tube and SS watts. People sometimes say that a tube amp of a given rating will play/sound as loud as a SS amp of twice its wattage rating. This is because tube amps generally clip more softly and gracefully than SS amps and many can be driven into sustained high levels of distortion without self destructing. Most SS amps, when overdriven will not only sound obviously bad, but will often oscillate and eventually fail, sometimes frying a tweeter or two in the process. And remember, the difference in volume level when doubling the power (wattage) is only 3 dB anyway.
