Alpine Type E (SXE1725S)

looking at a pair of SXE1725S for the fronts because i may or may not have put my knee through the passenger side one when the door card was off, sourcing a leak, last week

are these things any good for the <£30 price tag?

i had a pair of Type R component 5.25s in my Celica and rated them for the mid and treble.

depending on my mood they will either have Radio 1 or various flavours of EDM running through them. im not expecting mindblowing audiophile quality from them i just want them as a replacement for the one i bust.

does anyone have them installed and if so how do you rate them?

by the way i'll be running them on a Sony CDX-GT121.

If you consider these as OEM replacements that would be best as the sound quality would be similar.

Generally you get what you pay for, if you can stretch to the £50-£70 you will see a decent improvement in sound quality.

Thanks for your reply Gunzi, my thing is if I stretch to £50-70, I then have to stretch to £50-70 for the rears, that's a slope I don't want to start sliding down

I figured if I throw a pair of £30 drive units in the front of similar quality to the rears then I don't have to 'upgrade' the rears. I'm happy with the system as it is (was), yeah it rattled a little bit on lower bass notes, but the whole car rattles a little bit all over so its as to be expected

Fair enough, although unless you have shifted the balance to the back or sit very far back in the seat I would do the rears, the impact on SQ would be minimal.

Should be fitting these in the next 4 days and maybe put the passenger door card back in on monday (weather permitting)

Arrived yesterday. Build quality is as expected from Alpine, although FIRMLY in the budget range. Don't be thinking these will look swish on display because, although nice, I'll be honest... It's probably best to keep them hidden. Cone wasn't white as I'd expected but quite a nice 'fresh' silver. Suspension ring is concave (which I thought was a nice touch) but where its bonded to the cone its a little (for want of a better word) scruffy, not the clean lines like some of their more premium ranges. Tweeter is mounted solidly and appears to be well constructed, cap is mounted next to the drive unit and almost within the confines of the plastic housing.

Basket is a little flimsy around the mounting edges yet quite solid under the cone and around the Magnet, will be fine once mounted, its plastic, opposed to metal of OEM and Cast aluminium of other ranges... Drive magnet is nothing special either, just a bog standard run of the mill speaker magnet.

Spider, tinsel leads and spade connectors are all 'average' and will be perfectly acceptable for the application.

All in all, although above sounds quite negative (and I'm comparing to a set of Type R components I had a few years ago), I'm impressed. They were <£30 delivered so I am neither expecting nor wanting miracles or big sound from them. Only time will tell how I get on with them once installed.

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