8500 better than 8500 X50?

[nvr2fast]

Overall performance of the X50 is nothing like the old Escort 8500. Less Ka camera performance, compared to the earlier 8500.

My guess is maybe you have to have POP enabled to get full KA preformance? But that will mean tons of the pop falsing :cry:

No one seems to know how POP affects the X50/RX65:
http://www.radardetector.net/POP-mod...ivity-748t.php

[mauiman84]

Roy, do you know if belscort has tried to address any of these problems to make me want to get another escort or should i just keep having faith in my original 8500?

[Radarboy12312]

I have read in a few places that the original 8500 performs better than the newer X50, has anyone else other than Stealthjamal experienced this?

I have both the first 8500 and the new X50 and the first 8500 was good but the X50 is the better of the two for sure.

In my opinion the first 8500 had real bad instant on time and this is something that the X50 does a much better job at.

Also I think what Escort did was take everything bad about the first 8500 and made it better with the X50. Iam not saying that the First 8500 was a bad detector its just that I feel the X50 is better.

[cjs180]

I had gotten my father an X50 and it has no where near the range of my old 8500. Today I pulled the 8500 from ebay and told him to test them on a radar sign near my house. He is only getting a couple of blocks notice on HYW. mode! Something is wrong with the one he bought, and since I know my old 8500 will pick up this sign at just over 2.5 miles, I told him to test both on the same sign and then get back to me with which one to sell on ebay. I kinda feel I let him down with this, but sh** happens I guess and you can get a lemon; same with cars or anything else. I will report back on which one does better in his test, however I think I know the outcome already.

Chris