9500i quiet?

**mikecronis** · 07-25-2007, 02:36 AM

Just installed the 9500i in my Elise. I've been a big fan of Bel over the years (Whistler just falsed too darn much for my tastes). I went to areas I knew were false K-band signals but the detector did not go off whereas the Bel 985 used to, which is a bit concerning.

I bought the 9500i online through eBay for $370. It -seems- to work fine but I can't get a false signal. Should I reset the unit?

**peachtreecity** · 07-25-2007, 06:58 AM

It is a very quiet detector. Were you in Auto/City/Highway mode? What speed were you going when you were at the usual false alarm areas? Any bands locked out, i.e., in the setup, did the previous owner set it to not respond to X or K band?

**sethy** · 07-25-2007, 10:09 AM

it is very very quiet. it is the quietest detector I had ever owned- and that was in highway mode too

**CJR238** · 07-25-2007, 10:55 AM

It was a false alert, there for it usually won’t go off. If it was a real threat it will notify you.
It’s as simple as that.
The 9500I has by far the best filtering in any detector ever made but it will take time to get use to the quiet again.

**thestaton** · 07-25-2007, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by sethy

it is very very quiet. it is the quietest detector I had ever owned- and that was in highway mode too

x2. it's crazy quiet. sometimes too quiet.

**MEM-TEK** · 07-25-2007, 11:28 AM

*****

**BLK_BNZ** · 07-25-2007, 11:44 AM

True that! Its super quit, sometimes I forget I have one in the car! for me, I live and work in the same city so I blocked all the known false alerts since I never go over the speed limit until I get on the highway anyways, so my daily drive is pretty quite.

**RanEnRui** · 07-25-2007, 12:41 PM

Yup, with my experiences with it it really was uber quiet. I had many drives without a single alert while passing numerous "false" areas (that I didn't lock out).

**focalcivic** · 07-25-2007, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by thestaton

Originally Posted by sethy

it is very very quiet. it is the quietest detector I had ever owned- and that was in highway mode too

x2. it's crazy quiet. sometimes too quiet.

You can't win either a detector is too noisy or it is too quiet LOL.

I think people worry when a radar detector is too quiet, V1 guys are so used falsing that if they ever got a quiet detector they would lose their minds =)

**Hawaii50** · 07-25-2007, 07:34 PM

It was on ebay because the 9500i is worse than the 8500 X50 and it doesn't work like it is supposed to.

Originally Posted by CJR238

It was a false alert, there for it usually won’t go off. If it was a real threat it will notify you.
It’s as simple as that.
The 9500I has by far the best filtering in any detector ever made but it will take time to get use to the quiet again.

This is what people say when their detector lacks in sensitivity. Wow, my 9500i was super quiet when I got pulled over by a cop because it blocked out police radar. Wow, my STi was super quiet on 33.8 Ka band and it has the best filtering because the cop told me it was the quietest detector while he wrote me a ticket.