Alpine Type-E Subwoofers?

[chartman18 10+ year member]

I currently have somewhat-poopy Rockford Fosgate P1 Dual 12" Subwoofers in a 1.25 sealed for each sub in a dual 12" enclosure, and I was wondering how much better would 2 Alpine Type-E 12" subwoofers would sound compared to the P1's? And whats a good amplifier to power the Type-E's? I thought about 1 Type-R, but Im not sure if it will be better than 2 P1's? And plus, if I get a Type-R, I'd have to get a custom box made, and I dont have the slightest clue to doing the tuning with the hz, and how to find cubic feets.

Any help would be highly appreciated, thank you!

Ok, I kinda looked around reviews for the Type-E, and some people say its nothing. So I started to look at the Type-S. And it seems ok, I just dont know a good amplifier to power with it, and it supposedly works fine in a sealed enclosure like mine, it says: sealed box volume: 0.85-1.5 cubic feet, and mine is 1.25. Im hoping someone can tell me if I paired it with a Hifonics amplifier (I really want to try one of them) if it will be ok, or an Alpine amp, and help me out a little bit?

Thanks.

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[MBrock4u 10+ year member]

Lets take it from someone who actually runs type E's Type E's sound damm good. I originally went with those because I had a hatchback at the time. They have good sq. I now have a Hundi 4 door Elantra so I'm upgrading to type R. They won't blow your brains out or anything like that but the will sound good. I ran them off a directed 2 channel 600 watt amp. Ugraded amp to to a Alpine as well. They don't need a tremedous amount of power to sound good. Hope that helps.

 

[MisterGrubbs 5,000+ posts]

I once ran three type E 10's, and for 300w's on them they got sufficiently loud, an sounded pretty **** nice

I personally think that you'll like them over the P1's, but that's just me

Give them 200w-250w RMS and they'll be fine, and you'll be happy

SQ = superior, output is probably very similar