Best speakers for classic radio

[tintintin]

Just got myself a really nice Blaupunkt Emden AU. Will be fitting my Ipod to it.

Question:

Apart from the radio I'll be trying to hide everything else and I want to run a set of top quality speakers from it. I'm guessing the more sensitive the better for the power the radio will put out but I don't know ?

Not interested in amps and bass boxes just a real good set of speakers that will sound good?
Thinking Boston Acoustics but don't know much about it.

Suggestions welcome

 

[K@rlos]

Will, i've got a set FLI 6x9 speakers in the doors of mine. Their max output is 375 watt and for the money £37.95 i can't fault them, if i turn the volume up high they don't get crackley or anything. Got a other set of them to go in along with a set of component speakers and a Clarion head unit with a 6 disc changer that i've picked up cheap

Just gotta get a good sub and an amp, then i'm set :mrgreen:

 

[Dean]

With 375 watts, if you turned it up to much wouldn't it blow the output channels in the system without running it through an amp first?

 

[stagger lee]

speakers themselves don't/can't give you any extra output. people often think if they fit 100watt speakers, they have 100watts of audio power. not physical. the wattage on a speaker is it's maximum rating and largely rated speakers will need more power to drive them due to heavier coils etc. so a small wattage classic radio, which will be small wattage, realistically less than ten doesn't want massively rated speakers attached. offcourse it's got to be rated of you put through an amplifier etc.

also alot of power ratings is b.s from the company. they often quote peak music power or instantaneous power which is meaningless. true power and only power that means anyhitng is r.m.s; root mean square. so even with amps, some hundreds of watts amplifier will really only give out some tens maybe of true power. the numerous hundreds quoted is a non-physical calculated power.

true r.m.s audio power of several watts is realistically loud enough for a large room let alone a vehicle. a quality stero amp of say 25 true rms watts will be too loud to stand even at half volume.

just my tuppence worth?