Outdoor Garage Speakers

The poor neighbors! 

I know. Maybe the Klipsch. The definitive AW5500 rates really good. 

You might want to look at the Polk Atrium 6 (35 near perfect feedbacks at Crutchfield) or the Atrium 8 if you want to spend more and get a little more bass extension. The next step up might be something like the PSB's. I'm not a fan of Klipsch until you get up into the multi-thousand dollar units. All of their inexpensive stuff I ever heard sounded shrill.

Good Luck and Enjoy......

Just play something the neighbors might enjoy occasionally....;) *L*

My take on 'cheap thrills'...  I had 3 pairs of inexpensive Pioneer bookshelf speakers that I mounted into a vertical 'line array' pair.  Think 'concert stack'...

Wired together, they run around 5~6 ohms which makes for a nice load for the receiver that drives them.  They're hung in my shop and have no problem being heard over the various saws and machinery.  Outdoors I'd hang them under the eves if the building had any.  I think I could blow out the garage band that practices occasionally next door (50 yds. away, plays 6, sings 3....).

They're not specifically 'outdoor', but cheap enough that I'd not shed tears over them.  And adding a small shed roof over them wouldn't be a major physical event...

But I 'do' stuff like that....just because I can...*G*

my partner runs some yamaha 570, which weren't much more than a hundred bucks, and i was surprised at how good they sound--more low end than most outdoor speakers + a very wide stage. i'm sure you can spend more and get better, but they were quite impressive.