Your comparing apples and oranges. You could get a pair of 12" type r's for 200$ but l7's will cost you quite a bit more if i remember right. the L7's would be better for spl prolly but here they have bad sq. Personally i love the type r's but i dont think you can compare them to an l7 at all. for a type r type budget also look into RF hx2, PG TI, and prolly some others like adire shiva, ED, RE and the likes.