Deep Dive Review: Valentine One with V1connection, PART VI Filtering versus Muting Some background and how the Valentine One compares and contrasts to other manufacturers’ models Filtering techniques and muting–whether automatic or manual–while different in execution, accomplish a similar outcome: a detector which does not alert to a detected signal. As I have already covered …
Category: Valentine Research Radar Detectors
Sep 13
Review: Valentine One V1connection for iPhone or Android with Custom Sweeps, PART V
Valentine One Review with V1 connection, Part V The King of Kings of Driving Experience How the Valentine One compares and contrasts to other manufacturers’ models If you’ve ever read reviews of the Valentine One, their marketing literature, or get into discussions about it, things tend to center around the V1’s unique use of arrows. …
Jul 19
Deep Dive Review: Valentine One V1connection for iPhone or Android with Custom Sweeps, PART IV
Deep Dive Review: Valentine One V1 connection, Part IV Valentine 1 v3.894, V1 Connection LE, Custom Sweeps Detection Performance The Value of Band Segmentation to Improve Alerting Performance A little more than six years ago when was road-testing the first M3-based Beltronics STi-R remote radar detector, I first discovered and published what may turn out …
Jul 12
Deep Dive Review: Valentine One V1 connection for iPhone or Android with Custom Sweeps, PART III
Deep Dive Valentine One Review V1connection, Part III Valentine One Front View I would like to profile some of the extant capabilities and incipient ones, beginning with the V1’s multiple antennae, use of directional arrows, and their interrelated capabilities. Arrows What can I say about the V1’s arrows that have not already been said for …
Jul 08
Deep Dive Review: Valentine One v3.893 with V1connection for iPhone or Android with Custom Sweeps, PART II
Deep Dive Review: Valentine One V1 connection, Part II Introduction Let’s start with a very brief introduction of yours truly. I’m a passionate Oenophile, which in lay terms means I’m lover of fine wine (as is Robert Rosania). While I have found past iterations of the V1 to be quaffable, they haven’t quite been transcendent. …
Jul 06
Deep Dive Review: Valentine One v3.893 with V1connection for iPhone or Android with Custom Sweeps, PART I
Deep Dive Valentine One Review (Summary Conclusion), Part I Updated: 4-27-15* Part I of this series represents my review summation in just three short words, the conclusion of the full deep-dive review to follow. But, I have received some pushback online, from those who have misinterpreted my brief summation (as an ad) which, up until …
Apr 10
Valentine Research: Does the next decade belong to Mike Valentine?
Updated: 1721Z-5, 12 Apr 14, By Veil Guy Not so long ago, I proclaimed that the last decade belonged to Escort and for good reason. In that span of time the combined organizations of Beltronics and Escort gave us the first (fully realized) GPS-enabled game-changing radar detector (Passport 9500i), the first RDD undetectable radar detector …
May 26
How (I Think, in Part) my BEL STi Drivers Occasionally Outperform my V1s in RADAR (not LIDAR) Reception
I continue to notice, that on occasion, my Beltronics STi Drivers outperform my Valentines and I believe I have formulated a possible reason for this that may go beyond simple model to model variance that is inevitable in production. While my V1s tend to consistently outperform my STi Drivers from the rear and extreme sides …
May 24
My Valentine 1 (v3.826) Was in Need of a ‘Tune-Up.” Does Yours?
As it turns out my Valentine 1 was in need of a “tune-up.” For the sake of saving some time and for our drive back home from Ohio, my wife and I decided to purchase their latest V1 (v3.861) [bringing our total ownership to four V1s over 15 years] instead of paying $85 and having …
May 20
Does my particular Valentine 1 have an issue?
As part of continuing series of driving with the top-of-the-line radar detectors, while out in Ohio, I managed to hook up with Steve (co-founder of GoL). He rode shut gun as we compared the relative performance of my particular models of the V1 (v3.826) versus his (v3.861) and my STi Driver versus his STi driver …
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