[16M4]

Originally Posted by E92_SID

If I win I am going to buy as many Pho restaurants as I can and destroy them!!!!

Originally Posted by forza1976

+1 LOL

HATERS!!!!

[Xander_Reigns]

You guys are funny! My car gets here on Friday, so we're gonna have to meet up somewhere this weekend. I need to meet you dudes. I need some lessons on police-friendly driving.

[16M4]

I'm down for a meet this weekend.

[airshane]

Can't this weekend ... Headed to Sante Fe for a get-away ... Got a free hilton certificate that is going to expire, and I've not been to NM ... so why not ... After this, only two more states until I've been to all 50 ... Now I need a reason to go to SD and ND.

[Bimmer This]

Originally Posted by Alfred

HATERS!!!!

+1.

[Xiaofeng]

@Xander: Welcome to the forums! Sorry, been AWOL from this place recently because of work up to my eyeballs.

Unfortunately, I don't have any recommendations on custom radar installation places, but I do have experience with both the Valentine One and the Escort 9500ix.

V1
Pros:

• Extremely sensitive
• Dual front/rear facing receivers
• Bogey counter
• Patented arrow indicators
• Less expensive than 9500ix

Cons:

• Lots of false signals
• Some difficulty discerning between X and K band audible alerts
• Lots of false signals
• No GPS functionality
• Lots of false signals

9500ix
Pros:

• GPS location marking and filtering
• Automatic false signal learning
• Built-in red light camera and speed trap database
• Spoken voice audible warning
• Auto-volume and auto-brightness settings

Cons:

• Much less laser (LIDAR) sensitivity compared to V1
• No arrow location indicators
• More expensive than V1

All in all, I find that both units have their uses and drawbacks. Around town, I prefer the 9500ix and its filtering and false signal learning features. On long distance road trips, I prefer the uber-sensitivity of the V1.

When driving around town with the V1, I found myself getting so used to the false signals and the constant chattering that I was becoming desensitized to the unit, which effectively rendered it useless (except when the laser siren triggered). Compared to the V1, the 9500ix is eerily quiet. For the first couple of weeks or so of driving around with it, it picks up pretty much everything the V1 did, but as you start making the trips over and over, it starts to learn each signal and marks their location. Once it's marked, you won't hear it again. Now, my common trips are completely silent unless there's a real signal. However, the one thing I do miss on the 9500ix is the laser sensitivity of the V1. Sure, by the time I get tagged by laser, the piggy already has my speed, but I would still want to know I got tagged instead of guessing if I did or not.

If Escort managed to raise the sensitivity of their detector to V1 levels, or if V1 implemented the GPS functionality of the 9500ix, then that, in my opinion, would be the perfect detector.

Hope that helps! (Or confuses the bejeebers out of you!)

Originally Posted by E92_SID

If I win I am going to buy as many Pho restaurants as I can and destroy them!!!!

What's wrong with pho?!? Just because you couldn't stomach it....

[Bimmer This]

pho is sooooo yummy

[forza1976]

V1 FTW

[IN54NITY]

Xiaofeng, you might have sold me on both detectors. I have a fairly new Escort 8500.

[16M4]

Originally Posted by Bimmer This

pho is sooooo yummy

I've heard the new Pho (by safeway on 120th) is really good. Have you tried it?

[Bimmer This]

Nope. My friend use to own that shop when it was pho 120.