Alpine Type-R blowing up

[albarran9 10+ year member]

I'm all ready on my second pair of type r comps. they seem to be built strong with the heavy basket, but the spider is not very well held down which is causing them to blow. or so it seems to me. has any one else had this problem? only reason I keep on coming back to them is the fact that they can go from 35-20 on the freq responce which gives good midbass and I love silk tweeters. and for 150 its a good price, but I'm gonna stay away from them from now on.

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[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

20-35hz for comps?

 

[albarran9 10+ year member]

no 30Hz-35kHz

 

[jluv 10+ year member]

no 30Hz-35kHz

LOL!

If you are trying to give anywhere near 30 hz to your components, then that's why they're blowing. I wouldn't send them anything lower than 80hz, and a lot of components don't like it that low with a lot of power. Also, anything over 20k hz is inaudible to the human ear. I doubt that's the actual frequency range of those speakers.

 

[fnzpntz 10+ year member]

I woudl send mine 125 at the lowest shit son, your clipping the shit outa the,.

 

[Hybrid90accord 10+ year member]

i have had the same problem with my type Rs i just built an enclosure for them in my doors and it solved the problem, but ive since went with some some rockford old school fanatic Q component which i like better .

 

[mattmcss 10+ year member]

Gains set correctly ?

 

[albarran9 10+ year member]

no, I dont set my comps that low on the freq responce, but that what the spec say on the box that they can reproduce 30Hz-35KHz. and my gain is not turned all the way up. the spider just seems to be weakly held together.

 

[Hybrid90accord 10+ year member]

the spiders are weak, i had mine running off a alpine v-power 4 channel with 40 watts going to them and the gain all the way down, and they went out on me in 3 weeks. After getting new ones and making a glassed enclosure in my door, it didnt happen again after. I guess they dont like free-air usage alot.

 

[jujumantb 10+ year member]

no, I dont set my comps that low on the freq responce, but that what the spec say on the box that they can reproduce 30Hz-35KHz. and my gain is not turned all the way up. the spider just seems to be weakly held together.

Dont ever look at the 'frequency response' specs of components... worthless. Whether they can really play that low depends entirely on the install... its just marketting gimmicks so people like you will keep going back to them because you think they are somehow superior to other components based on that "spec"... I guess it works huh?

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

with the gains set correctly, my alpine mids will start to distort if i dont hp at 80hz at high volume.

 

[albarran9 10+ year member]

the spiders are weak, i had mine running off a alpine v-power 4 channel with 40 watts going to them and the gain all the way down, and they went out on me in 3 weeks. After getting new ones and making a glassed enclosure in my door, it didnt happen again after. I guess they dont like free-air usage alot.

I sounddeadend my doors and made sure to seal off the door so that no air would leak and they still blewout. I'm not buying any more alpine comps any more, but for the $150 that I paid for my pair I cant complain cuz they did sound ok for my first set of comps:crazy:

 

[Hybrid90accord 10+ year member]

even though you have sealed off the doors, like subs every speaker need a optimal airspace to work correctly. just like putting a sub in a box that is too big, it will perform like its in a free air enviroment, and the suspension will be over worked and damage will occur