If you had actually looked through the forum or tried to use our often overlooked search function you might have eventually run across this thread. It just happens to be a stickied thread dedicated purely to Alpine's Type R subwoofer and currently has over 2,600 replies.Is The New Type R Sub A Good Or Bad Sub Or Even Okay?
He's right, I've seen it happen ...it is the best speaker ever thought. it is a gift from the car audio gods, it can turn saw dust into raw DB's, just as god turned water into wine.
a TS-W3004/2SPL can be had for the same price on eBay. I hear it has better SQ and gets almost as loud as the Hype-RI like mine. Put in a right ported enclosure they def hit. I dont think for the price there is a better sub really