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Originally Posted by SouthArk370Z
While the Bose system sounds decent (not great, if you're into hi-fi, but you ain't gonna get hi-fi in a car), I can't imagine the speakers sounding very good with a different HU. YMMV
I prefer a car system with rear speakers but everyone's ears are different. If you like rear speakers, go for it. If not (eg, you are used to a two-speaker home system), why bother?
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True, but a two-speaker home system with very high quality speakers, preamps, and amps creates a soundstage that fills your room. Generally the speakers are directly in front of you and bounce sound off of the walls behind you to give a space-filling sound. Door panel speakers are at a disadvantage when trying to create a soundstage because of their positioning. I may just go for the up front replacement first and if I don't feel it's full enough for my liking then getting rears installed. I supposed I could end up getting surprised. I don't really have experience building systems for cars and they're such a unique challenge.
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 Listening to different speakers is a great idea. You can get an idea of relative quality and weed out the lower-quality speakers. Just keep in mind that what you hear in the store will not be what you hear in the car.
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This is true, but it's also a scary way for me to blow my budget extremely fast. I almost financed a pair of $20,000 loudspeakers for my home after hearing them before I smacked myself in the face to snap out of it. haha!
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I have my vinyl in storage. I kinda miss the ritual of inspecting the LP, cleaning it, dropping the needle, &c, but popping in a CD and hitting Play is sooooo much easier. 
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It is way easier, yes. For certain things (classical music is one big example) it's much better to have it on CD. Finding pristine vinyl copies of classical works is tough and even then theres usually some background noise. With music so dynamic, clicks and pops ruin it. With a lot of the jazz albums I have, many of them have never been issued on CD, so vinyl is the only option.