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There is no such thing as highest quality speakers. There are at least 40 manufacturers that build "highest quality speakers" and that in the mobile audio area only, and excluding manufacturers like Sony, Clarion, Kenwood which manufacture let's say middle class speakers, at least in the low end-low price segment.
Now, a very short list of highest quality car speaker manufacturers, apart from Focal and BA, which I see they come very highly recomended from everybody, (kidding of course, they are very good, but extremely expensive), should include Harman Kardon, Becker, Mark Levinson and Infinity, not to mention JBL, from Harman International Industries, Precision Power, Orion, and a/d/s from the Directed Electronics group (Viper audio and Directed audio by the way are not as good as the first three), Phase Linear, Magnat and MacAudio from the Recoton group, Cerwin Vega, MB Quart, Oz Audio, KEF, Dynaudio, Rockford Fosgate, JL Audio, Audiobahn, Alpine, Kicker and so many others.
So as you see it's not about who makes the highest quality speakers, but more about which speakers do you like more from the sound point of view ( the best test possible is to be able to listen to them in the same enviroment prefferably in the car they'll be installed in, but if that is not possible, at least in the same room and of course mounted on a rack not held in hand) and of course here comes the affordability matter.
It's very easy to say "take BA, they're the best" ok, maybe they're among the best but can you afford or more likely are you willing to pay 300 USD - MSRP for the entry level RC520 from Boston Acoustics? I can assure you that if you're not an extreme audiophile you won't even notice the difference between these speakers and another entry level of one of the good companies I listed above, let's say the Discus series from MB Quart which comes at nearly half that price.
And by the way all these speakers need power, and I don't mean here the sorry 12W that the average head unit can provide. You need amplifiers, otherwise it would be like having at home a pair of Bose, Jamo, Tannoy or you name the speakers and powering them with a Discman.
So instead of trying to buy the world's most expensive speakers you should try to build a more equilibrated system bearing in mind that you would need amplifiers, speakers and a good head unit with at least two line outs capable of minimum 3Volts.
5.25 speakers work only if you have power windows, otherwise don't even think about it, it's hard enough to fit 4" with round masks in the front cutouts of the 240 with manual windows, because the window handle barely passes the masks, with 5.25"'s and spacers that becomes impossible.
A better handling of the issue is to install like I did a pair of 4" midranges with tweeters, in the front and possibly in the rear doors (in the rear door panels there are cutouts prepared, you just have to cut the panel material, and a good subwoofer in the trunk.
There is a secondary alternative that allows you to install even 6.5" speakers, and is even better for the general imaging of sound since it increases the distance between the ear and the speakers, allowing the soundwave to reach the ear almost simultaneously from left and right speaker which in this car is a big problem in the actual location of the speakers unless you have some kind of electronic delaying device that are found on the new generation high class head units. The alternative is buying or building kick panels.
By the way coaxes are not as bad as you would think since the best sound imaging is obtained by having the midrange and tweeter nearby.
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1991 Volvo 245; 1979 Volvo 244
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