While the Valentine One does have a slight (and I mean SLIGHT) range advantage over the 9500ix, the V1 STILL does not have GPS or false alert filtration. I've seen a test where a fella tested the 9500ix vs the V1 (both on highway mode) on a road trip. While the V1 would alert him maybe a quarter second faster, it had 112 false alerts (yes, thats one hundred twelve), where as the Escort had only a few. For a detector that will be used in a daily driver, the Escort wins all day every day, in my book.
If my detector alerts me every five minutes of a possible threat, and it turns out to be nothing, it really defeats the purpose of the detector. And eventually, you're going to lose faith in that detector and think a possible threat is just another false alert, when it ends up being a Trooper just around the bend.
