You have been informed correctly as for Alpines being the best, I run nothing but alpine, i'm running alpine DDDrive but they are top and pricey.
If you just want decent sound quality without going to pricey my advice is jbl or infinity.
You can't go wrong with either, sounds like you just want some fairly decent speakers with out going ott...
I'll put some links up when I get back of some i'd advise.
If you have money to burn, alpine for the win, cause they are soo crisp.
Edit :
infinity mids
Jbl mids