Alpine Type-R SPR-17LS Car Tweeter

Pros: clear high, fat mids

Cons: bass breaks up at high volume

The Bottom Line: ALpine never failed me yet.

Review: I always loved Alpine car audio, even as a teen. When I upgraded my head unit, the next logical step was to upgrade the speakers. My doors had a nice 6 and a half inch hole, and I was deciding on the type S or the type R speakers. I went around to the ...

Pros: Great midbass at 80HZ+, decently priced, well built

Cons: Poor lower frequency handling, muddy sounding tweeters, mounting depth

Review: These speakers were a good deal, but in retrospect, other speakers would have been chosen instead. While the speaker performs well in the area of midbass punch under its RMS rating, it simply begins to distort when hard-pressed at its RMS rating. The ...