would a 30w speaker be appropriate for an outdoors party?

Just to have background music for people, at say a BBQ?
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this one for example

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It's actually 15W per speaker and they don't specify rms, which implies that 15w is a max, rather than an average.

Best guess, this will be wimpy outside. The speakers seem to be positioned as kitchen or bedroom speakers.
Fwiw, I use 60w rms in a small home office. I would expect my system would sound fine as background music outside; but no one will be dancing.

 

what about something like this?

I know nothing about speakers at all really. I need something that I can plug an Ipod 5 into (and hopefully keep the IPod charged up as well)

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or this?
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The problem with those is they are projecting from one point. So all the sound will be concentrated in one area. If you make it loud enough to hear at a distance it will be shouty up close.

 

I ended up buying this

fuck knows if its loud enough, but I got want something I can use in the house as well. Its supposed to be good other than you have to use an adaptor cos the male port on it is the old style Ipod (v4 and below)

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I haven't heard that specific device; but NAD and PSB make good stuff.