Customer Reviews

Cobra XRS-9730 12-Band Radar/Laser Detector

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I've found the Cobra brand to be the best "reasonably" priced detectors out there. This one consistantly picks up our friends in uniform about 1/2 to a mile away. Not too many false signals. If you want LASR warning.... forget it. It's always too late no matter what you buy.

This is my second radar detector from Cobra, the first one I had worked fine but within a year the speaker blew in it. I hope this one does not do the same. This radar detector is nice I really like the compass feature. My only complaint is that you get false alerts, not alot but enough to bother me, but when it is supposed to alert me it DOES, so I'm not complaining too much. I bought my wife a cheaper one by Whisler and it works great, no false reads, but it doesn't have a compass :-(
All and all this is not a bad detector.

EASY INSTALLATION. GREAT PRODUCT FOR THE PRICE. INSTALLED UNIT LAST NIGHT...SAVED ME TWICE TODAY! UNIT IS A BIT SENSITIVE, HOWEVER, EASY TO DIFFER FALSE ALARMS.

I travel on the Atlanta area freeways frequently and it has already saved me a couple of times.

POP mode(LCD display and voice activated)goes off when not always in use by police radar. Confusing and inaccurate.

I have had this detector for just a month and its already saved my butt for sure at least twice. Specifically once when I was speeding a considerable amount and a ticket would have been guaranteed.

It works well with lasers, I can confirm this just today. Also the Emergency Vehicle feature works well to my surprise. Its kind of useless to me, but very cool nonetheless.

I went from a cheapo whistler unit that was stolen to this one and I couldn't be happier. It is very customizable and over time, once you've figured out which frequencies are usually bogus, you can set it up so you will have almost zero false [radar] alarms.

The only thing that really bugs me is that it is very sensitive to POP, and if I leave it on, I get tons of false POP warnings. I've still yet to get a POP warning from a cop so Ill probably disable POP.


This detector is certainly worth the money and more. If you can get it for under $100, you have my full support.

Bought this radar detector after my Bel radar detector bit the dust after 10 years. I've had this detector for about a month now and found it to be useless. Lots of false alarms on all bands, especially on K and Ka. I have yet to see a police car with radar after the alarms go off. I had to turn off the radar detector "detector" features (VG-2 and Spectre) as they would go off for no reason. An example: sitting in a driveway of a rural subdivision and the VG-2 alarm going off non-stop, and I live in a state (Wisconsin) that doesn't even use these types of detectors. Voice alert got annoying after awhile so I turned that off too. My old Bel detector was always on the mark with detecting police radar and rarely had false alarms. I would not recommend this product to anyone - waste of money.

This radar detector is the probably the best detector i ever owned, the range is great i live in raleigh north carolina and i do lots of highway driving and this thing saved me at least 50 times from a speeding tickets and the compass is amazing and everything on it, the only dislike is out of know where it will display pop mode when theres no cops insight, like i will be in my driveway and the detector will go off like crazy. But other then that great detector i recommend it to all my friends and family.

Product works great... the only gripe i have is that the power cord is very elastic and pulled the detector off my dash a few times. Other than that the product is excellent

Nice looking unit purchased in time for a 3,500 mile trip. Spent time traveling to Iowa from New Hampshire with the compass reading E instead of W...very frustrating..I had a magnetic compass in the car and the readings varied widely. Re-calibrated the unit probably 20 times, all to no avail. Just before item returned, it read N while parked in front of my apt. while car was actually facing S.
Further, it gave me virtually no warning time on approaching police vehicles. It would finally pick up the radar, but only after the police unit was in full view. I know radar was more prevalent due to traffic stops I saw on the trip, including one car in front of me picked up by radar, cop turned around, and my unit didn't pick it up until he was in back of me and passing to get the speeder in front of me
Totally unacceptable, worst radar unit I've ever owned.