Everything I've seen about them put it slightly ahead of the Redline EX and about par with the R7 but all three are tier 1 detectors. You did buy direct from Valentine as I don't think they warranty anything from 3rd party vendors, not fully certain on this but worth looking into?
I'm too cheap and was all set on a CR97 or R3 but the OLED's are having burn in issues and since I wanted it for the bike it would be on full bright mode I'm now looking at a Radenso XP. It's definitely a step down but has the best BSD filtering. While still OLED, for some reason don't have the burn in issues. Redline and V1's are the only modern detectors that still use LED.