Alpine’s or sony

Hey guys, I'm having trouble deciding between two alpine type-e 12's and two sony 12's the sony's are Sony 12" Subwoofer (XSL121P5 they are max power 1200 but i think the alpines will give me better sound and probably better spl at its given wattage... let me know what you guys think.

Alpine all the way. Stay away from Sony.

without even being that familiar with either one of those models, I would say through brand reputation the Alpines are a safer bet.

Sony tends to grossly overrate their products ratings. And Sonys track record in the car stereo business has not been so great either 

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there is nothing to think about....... ALPINE......NO SONY

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Head Unit:Alpine CDA 9835
6.5 MB Quart Pce 210
Amp:JBL 80.4
Amp:JBL 1200.1
Sub:Adire Brahma 12 MKII

Sony???? NOOOOOO!!!!! I've never heard the Type-E's but I'm gonna go out on what I beleave to be a very strong limb and say that they are better than anything Sony has made since their product line Xploded.

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Nik
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Big Dave

ok its easy to see alpine all the way, thats what i was leaning towards in the first place... Does anyone have any experience with the type-e's? alpine guy?

Ok I'm looking at getting the type-e's for $60 a piece or I can pick up the S's for $99... these are from circuit city and they seem to have the best pricing on alpine around here... let me know how you guys feel.

Go with the ALpine subs for sure. That sounds like a pretty good price on those Type Es...you can get two for $89 on crutchfield.com though. I wonder where Alpine guy is... You might try PMing him.

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I've installed a bunch of Type e's. Sealed box, around 300 - 500 watt. The sound is very very good for that price range sub. Reminds me of the old kicker comps. Able to hold the deep deep bass without the noise.

oh and where do I click to piss on Sony?

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Tell the Snap-On guy I'm not here!

Id highly suggest buying online and considering a single Alpine Type R are..beit 10", 12" or 15". VERY GOOD subs that can be had online for around 150 bucks.

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Dave

Pioneer Premier DEH-P660
15" Kicker CVR
Profile AP1000M
It's Loud

The type-e sub is pretty darn good for the price, i personally ran one 10" and one 12" and 3 12" all at separate times, they are pretty good in the SQ department, they suffer in the low end that say a type-r would put out, ,but the type-e has that real tight accurate punch.  I can't seem to blow one of those dang things, had the 10" plugged into the wall for 5 minutes before it got boreing.....

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2003 Chevy Avalanche,Eclipse CD7000,Morel Elate 5,Adire Extremis,Alpine PDX-4.150, 15" TC-3000, 2 Alpine PDX-1.1000, 470Amp HO Alt.

ok it's down to alpines, I've heard both the e's and the s's and the s's actually really impressed me for the money. I still dont know really how i feel, the S's are DVC and they still have the same power rating as the e's... kinda interesting.

The S series just has better venting, and the dvc , thats the only differences.

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2003 Chevy Avalanche,Eclipse CD7000,Morel Elate 5,Adire Extremis,Alpine PDX-4.150, 15" TC-3000, 2 Alpine PDX-1.1000, 470Amp HO Alt.

I have 3 12" Alpine Type R's running from a Phoenix Gold 8.0.1 in parallel and they hit really hard. I had the Type E first , they were OK but  the Type R's are much better.