Toyota JBL premium sound system not that premium

Heard JBL has lot their touch years ago. Then people want to go with Bose. And Harman, which also makes Infinity and Mark Levinson brands, was in bankruptcy and may be heading back in (must be doing great). So who makes a good speaker these days?

Don't know much about these days and car speakers. For home speakers, I really like the old school full panel electrostatic, only if I could stuff those suckers into the car and have the amps to drive it! My experience with Bose was not good - over priced and bad sound quality, but that was for a home system, not car.

I have friends building up vacuum tube audio systems. I really don't know much about various sound systems or spend time to shop a whole lot. That's why I have the Bose Acoustimass for home. There were cheaper but larger speakers with excellent sounds at the store, but for me it's a good tradeoff with the small cube speakers.