[rjlloyd]

generally speaking, to get the warmth and depth to the sound you need big speakers, this is why all the old school speakers had at least an 8 inch woofer in them, the bigger the cone, the more air you move. From reading your post I gather you are looking for that old school sound which you will get with any reasonable quality stereo speakers providing they have large woofers. many of the newer home theater speakers with multiple small woofers (say 4 to 6 inch) do an admirable job, but are designed to run with a sub to get down to somewhere near 20 to 30 Hz, subs never really existed when record players were around hence the speakers had large woofers, you should be able to get some good quality old speakers eg Richard Allen or Mordaunt Short for a song on Ebay as nobody seems to want these any more