XP Deus from France

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Ik think the DEUS is a beautiful machine and I salute XP for daring to think outside the box.
I also love the adjustability of the machine and I'm sure in some area's it will be a lot better than the GMP.
I think anyone buying the DEUS will get their money's worth, but for me it's like Roger said;
I personally don't need the extra frequencies and I would eventually use it as a GMP ; 18 kHz.

The only things I will miss in the GMP is the even higher recoveryspeed and the audioresponse of the DEUS.
Although I must say that from looking at all the video's; the superhigh recovery does not give me the clear audio ID I would like.
And here we come to my main concern.

Think about it:
To unmask as many targets as possible, you would have to select recoveryspeed 5 all the time.
This in turn would mean a significant loss in depth performance.
So what you would gain horizontally, you loose vertically.
As far as I know, there is no way of knowing how bad masking is before you start your search.
So what to select....

Unless you would search a field first with a high recovery for masking followed by a low recovery for depth you wouldn't know.
But if you think about it; you would also have to do this again with every of the 4 frequencies to get all possible targets from a field.
This is probably why a field always produces some finds, even when it's been detected on for decades;
Every machine is set-up differently and so finds some targets for which it is optimally set up.
So a real innovation would be a machine that covers a range of frequencies an a range of recovery speeds all at once and this all at the same time.
That machine is not (yet) on the market.

If you do a side by side comparison of the DEUS with the GMP, the DEUS would always win in the end.
Why? Because if you know the conditions in advance ( say you bury a gold coin with some rusty nails) there is just more settings to choose from in the DEUS.
Does this make it a better detector?
Yes and No.
Yes for sure in a test, because you know the conditions in advance and you get more depth wit 4kHz and superlow recovery, or more unmasking if you select the opposite.
No in the real world, or at best maybe if you are lucky enough to set it up just right for the actual conditions.
You can construct a personal program; select this frequency and that recovery setting but it would just be another compromise and you can only hope it's the right one for the conditions.

What attracts me in the GMP, is the good audio ID, a wireless headphone, an 18 kHz frequency and a recoveryspeed that is just right for my liking.
Also it strikes me as being more sturdy, but that's subjective and not based on any experience ( as is my whole story by the way).
The Stem and carbon fibre coil of the DEUS are maybe even better, but the remote and headphones in my view are not.

Still, there is more potential in a DEUS that's without a doubt in my mind and that is what you pay for, fair and square.
No, I don't think it's overpriced and I'm not concerned by a few niggles here and there.
If my search locations were more varied, I would certainly buy one.

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