Category: Radar Detector Reviews

Preview/Review: Uniden R3 & Uniden R1 Radar Detectors

Preview/Review: Uniden R1 and Uniden R3 Radar Detectors Hold on to your hats, boys and girls, the storm has arrived! Uniden R3/Uniden R1 Radar Detectors The last several years have been a momentous time for competition in the radar detector industry. Just like our past Presidential election and BREXIT, 2017 seems to be the year …

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Radenso SP Review: Radenso XP sans GPS for $150 Less

Radenso SP Review: Radenso XP sans GPS for $150 less Radenso SP Radar Detector Review Radenso, the innovative new radar detector manufacturer, has recently released their new Radenso SP. The Radenso SP, is essentially a Radenso XP without built-in GPS capabilities.  The SP retails for $249, which is $150 less than the GPS enabled XP, …

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Veil Guy’s in-depth Escort iX Radar Detector Review

Veil Guy’s in-depth Escort iX Radar Detector Review Escort iX It’s been long in the making, but Escort has finally performed a proper makeover of their best selling radar detector of all time, the Passport 9500ix. While the Passport 9500ix was their most widely popular radar detector, it did come with some shortcomings. Fortunately for …

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Veil Guy’s Escort iX Review/Preview

Escort iX Review/Preview Escort’s Passport 9500ix finally passes the baton to a proper successor, the Escort iXBy Veil Guy — July 27, 2016 Escort iX After nearly eight years–one of the longest product runs years for Escort–the Escort Passport 9500ix is passing the baton to its proper successor, the all new Escort iX. It’s interesting …

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FULL REVIEW: Escort Max 360 Radar Detector Review by Veil Guy

Escort Max 360 Review By Veil Guy — November 16, 2015 In-depth Escort Max 360 Review It’s been decades in the making but Escort has finally given us a radar detector with the capability of threat-source identification (ie; directional arrows).  Often discounted by some vendors (who couldn’t sell the V1) as an unnecessary feature, the …

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FULL REVIEW: Beltronics GT-7 Radar Detector Review by Veil Guy

FULL REVIEW: Beltronics GT-7 Radar Detector Full Review: Beltronics GT-7 Radar Detector I’ve had the pleasure of spending some serious seat time driving with the new Beltronics GT-7 radar detector throughout a multi-state trip for the purposes of writing this in-depth full review. While some may think of the Beltronics GT-7 as simply a rebadged …

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Beltronics GT-7 Review/Preview: Finally Beltronics Gets Some TLC

Beltronics GT-7 Review/Preview Beltronics radar detectors finally get a face lift. Beltronics GT-7 Review After years of “neglect,” Beltronics will be offering some fresh new radar detectors in the coming months.  I couldn’t be happier.  The first new product is the Beltronics GT-7 radar detector. The Beltronics GT-7 radar detector, while not particularly “low-key” in …

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Escort Max 360 Review/Preview: Escort Ups its Game!

Escort Max 360 Review/Preview Watch out Valentine, the new Escort Max 360 has arrows! Escort Max 360 Today is a big day for those of us in the radar detector and countermeasure industry. A really big day. Over the last several decades, Escort has produced some really spectacular and innovative radar detectors.  There have been …

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Cobra DSP 9200 BT Radar Detector Review by the Veil Guy

Cobra DSP 9200 BT Radar Detector Review Published 9/20/2015 Cobra DSP-9200BT Radar Detector We recently test drove the new Cobra DSP 9200 BT radar detector to determine if this Cobra radar detector lives up to its billing and its heady price tag. The Cobra DSP 9200 BT replaces the Cobra SPX-7800BT as the new top-of-the-line …

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Cobra SPX 7800BT Review: Cobra’s best windshield mount detector yet.

Cobra SPX 7800BT Review Cobra SPX 7800BT Budget priced Cobras have often been the butt of jokes by the online radar detector enthusiast community as far back as I can remember.  Those feelings were not entirely without merit as Cobra has had a history of producing radar detectors with marginal detection abilities which would cause …

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