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They are both really sensitive, even with the filters applied. It may have more to do with the fact that both of us are driving through heavily congested urban areas with lots of things transmitting on the radar band than any weakness in the detector design. They both probably work like a charm in Iowa!
I originally chose an Escort 9500ix because you can theoretically lock out known false signals using the built in GPS receiver. What they don't tell you is that it takes close to twenty minutes for the GPS receiver to lock in the GPS signal if you park your car in a garage overnight (and is there any one of us who doesn't park our very expensive cars in a garage?). That means that most of your daily commute (which is the only time you're really going to be sure that an alert is a false signal) will be without GPS, which makes the 9500 just another dumb detector relying on its own filters to discriminate false signals.
Definitely not an advantage over the Valentine One.
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