I tested the top radar detectors under $300 and the Cobra RAD 700i ($259) is the best pick for most drivers. It beats the Uniden R3 on filtering and costs $70 less. I also cover the Escort Max 3, Uniden DFR7, and Whistler CR93, including why some options aren’t worth the money anymore.
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Whistler has just released the new Titan ($349 $369). This is the first Whistler radar detector that can truly compete with the big dogs. Thanks to its all new DSP platform, it offers improved signal analysis giving us both longer range and fewer false alerts. The Titan is a long range detector like the Uniden …
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Cobra makes many affordable radar detectors. You can easily find them in the $50 range or so on Amazon. However, are they any good? Are they worth the money? and perhaps most importantly, will a Cobra radar detector help protect you from speeding tickets?
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In areas where radar detectors are illegal, police commonly use radar detector detectors (RDD’s) to locate drivers who are running radar detectors. How do they work? How easily can they spot radar detector users? How effective are “undetectable” radar detectors at avoiding detection from a radar detector detector? Let’s take a look and cover everything …
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Whistler is going to be introducing two new radar detectors that will be successors to their current top of the line radar detectors, the Whistler CR88 and Whistler CR93.
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Whistler’s detectors haven’t been particularly popular among enthusiasts these days yet many people have had good experiences with them and have been saved many times thanks to them. Whistler makes some very affordable radar detectors plus. Even their top of the line detectors are very inexpensive. (The CR93 is currently just $166, for example.) The …
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This weekend I tested out a bunch of radar detectors against the Spectre Elite, the latest and greatest version of the Spectre radar detector detector. Radar Detectors Tested: Radenso XP Uniden DFR7 Escort Max360 Escort Passport Max2 Radenso Pro Radenso Pro SE Valentine One Cobra DSP9200BT Cobra XRS 9930 V8 (Cheap Chinese $10 detector) Escort …
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Uniden R8w ($799)
Best Performing GPS Radar Detector
Escort Redline 360c ($799)
Aggressive Filtering, Easy to Use
Valentine 1 Gen2 ($599)
Best for Radar Detector Enthusiasts
Uniden R7 ($549)
Awesome w/ Third Party Firmware
Uniden R4w
($429)
Best Non-Arrow Detector
Cobra RAD 700i ($259)
Best under $300
Radenso XP ($189)
Best under $200
AntiLaser Priority ($1339 Dual, $2039 Triple TX BT HiFi)
The best performing and top laser jammer on the market
Stinger Fibers ($2307 Dual, $2956 Triple)
Tiny heads for stealthy installs, great for exotic cars, expensive, poor track record of updates
Adaptiv TPX ($999 Triple)
Best affordable laser jammer (Save 10% with coupon “Vortex”)
Uniden R9w
($3,999, radar and laser)
High performance radar detector & laser jammer combo
Escort Redline Ci 360c ($4,299, radar and laser)
Quiet filtering, smaller laser jammer heads
