What is the speaker quality?

[tucsoncarol]

I'm looking to install a stereo in my unit, and I must admit I've been looking high end (don't ya' know). It then occurred to me that there is no point spending BIG bucks on a radio/cd player if the speakers aren't so good. If the speakers are trash, what does anyone replace them with? If they sound solid, has anyone bought a player that overtaxed the speakers? What about a sub-woofer? Is that overkill?

In the days of my youth, I was (yes, indeed) a stereo snob. When cds replaced vinyl, I lost interest in some of that. It seems that all media and methods are temporary now.

I had to convince my son this Christmas that an I-pod wasn't worth the money (whew) when, in his short life, the storage methods had changed a couple of times and he would live to see them change much more. Just how many times can you replace a music collection?