HiFi installed

Nice review Vortex. Me likey. ;)

The speaker is the same size as the Belscort one, right? My center console has a perfect spot for it. Now if I only got shot more often so I could justify the expenditure.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by radargeek

Nice review Vortex. Me likey. ;)

The speaker is the same size as the Belscort one, right? My center console has a perfect spot for it. Now if I only got shot more often so I could justify the expenditure.

---

That's a "be careful what you wish for" if ever I heard one

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by radargeek

The speaker is the same size as the Belscort one, right? My center console has a perfect spot for it. Now if I only got shot more often so I could justify the expenditure.

---

It's been quite a while since I've had one of the Belscort speakers, but I do believe it's right around the same size. It's thinner front to back than top to bottom, so it's not perfectly a cube. This actually helped so I was able to turn it to squeeze it past obstructions to get it where I wanted it, then rotate to point the direction I wanted the sound to project.

I know what you mean about wanting to get shot more often. I get shot extremely rarely and still have yet to get a single encounter with it. :congratulatory:

I'm tempted to get an ALP so I can play with it and see how I can interface my autokill to it. I'm just not up to tearing my car apart again to yank the LI and install it. And after I do a new install, I end up going years before being shot. It took 3 years from my initial LI install to get shot. I got shot 3 times in 2013, then I bought a new car and reinstalled the LI, and have had *zero* shots in 2014. Will I have to wait until 2017? If I get ALP, I'll go another 3 years.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by radargeek

I'm tempted to get an ALP so I can play with it and see how I can interface my autokill to it. I'm just not up to tearing my car apart again to yank the LI and install it. And after I do a new install, I end up going years before being shot. It took 3 years from my initial LI install to get shot. I got shot 3 times in 2013, then I bought a new car and reinstalled the LI, and have had *zero* shots in 2014. Will I have to wait until 2017? If I get ALP, I'll go another 3 years.

---

Yeah, having something fun to experiment with, learn, and play with in the meantime definitely helps if you don't actually get to use it for its intended purpose much. The peace of mind of having it while driving certainly helps, but it's definitely fun to toy around and tinker during ownership so that things stay fresh and enjoyable. That's one of the reasons I like playing with radar guns actually. It's something new that I haven't already played with, read about, and discussed endlessly.

Great demo Vortex , as usual ! with a radiophonic voice as bonus.

Should be sticky :popcorn:

If all goes fine i should recieve mine tomorrow ...my target time was for 2014 ...just in time.

HiFi increases tenfold the awareness :whoo:

I :thumbs2: your suggestion for the menu button turning to receive only.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Vortex

Just got my HiFi module installed and it works great. Here's a demo of the unit in action announcing guns with the female voice, JTK'ing, comparing to the original control pad, and my initial impressions of the unit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wih6J6ubNHI

A couple notes.

The speaker is definitely loud. Even with the speaker tucked IN my dash behind plastic panels and driving on the highway with the top down, I can STILL hear the gun IDs which is very impressive. With my music blasting I can't hear the ALP speaker, so hooking up the stereo mute wire would definitely be a good idea and a straightforward solution.

I like the way the ALP handles brief lidar detections better than the way my HP-905's did. If the Blinders picked up a very very brief burst of lidar, say either scatter or a false, I would get no gun announcement and wouldn't know what it picked up. Even with the quickest shots possible from my PL3 and my lidar simulator, the ALP would announce the gun ID each and every time. I really love this feature.

When you start your car and the ALP boots up, instead of the beeps, you get the word "Active" announced, even if you choose the silent power up option. I would like to see that announcement go away so it's truly quiet upon startup.

Another thing I do wish was different was what the Menu button on the right does. I never really knew since generic beeps are kinda cryptic. With the voices now I know it adjusts the foglight settings. That's part of an accessory that's more common in Europe, IIRC, and I'd love to see that button switched to setting your jammers to receive mode. As I mention in the video, I loved being able to do this with my Blinders and KBJ, kill my jammers when spotting a LEO so that they don't jam when I get shot. Putting them in receive mode rather than killing the power altogether like you'd have to do with LI's, you could still tell if you got shot, for how long, what gun you got shot with, etc. A very useful feature. The menu button on the control pad changes the foglights settings and I'd like to see it set to changing between jam, receive only, and perhaps parking sensor only mode. It wouldn't be as obvious what setting you're on as it was with the Blinder control switch, and it's possible to do it accidentally and not realize it, so if it would change over for, say 30 or 60 seconds and then revert back to jamming mode automatically afterwards, that would be awesome.

Speaking of JTK'ing, I do some JTK's on video and if you JTK really quickly, you won't get the gun announcement as radargeek mentioned above. Having the ALP continue to announce the gun would be ideal. A different beep is definitely a good idea so we know the jammers have been set to receive only, but it's definitely possible to miss the initial announcement for whatever reason. Music's too loud at first and you don't have the stereo mute cable hooked up, etc.

Minor niggles aside, having the clear voices and loud speaker is definitely a nice upgrade over the normal control pad and I'd highly recommend it!

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by radargeek

Nice review Vortex. Me likey. ;)

The speaker is the same size as the Belscort one, right? My center console has a perfect spot for it. Now if I only got shot more often so I could justify the expenditure.

---

radargeek
I have one of each speaker in front of me.
They look and measure exactly alike.
The only way to tell them apart is the brand name on the speaker grill and the wiring.
They measure 2-1/4" square by 2" deep (at center)

Would you like a photo?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Tman

:thumbs2: your suggestion for the menu button turning to receive only.

---

http://radarandlaserforum.com/showth...ll=1#post42922 from last week.

Too much wine ...i missed this one.

Soon we will need an encyclopedia to keep track of all the options\updates\features :smiley-laughing:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by BestRadarDetectors

http://radarandlaserforum.com/showth...ll=1#post42922 from last week.

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Tman

Too much wine ...i missed this one.

Soon we will need an encyclopedia to keep track of all the options\updates\features :smiley-laughing:

---

You know, the ALP has a lot of the qualities of YaV1 that make me love them both:

Very quick updates and fixes, the coolest all-around product you can get, lots of great features, excellent customer service, we as enthusiasts get to provide suggestions which (when they're good) actually get implemented in the product, etc. It makes the whole experience of owning and using the product that much more fun.