Would it be fair to say the White's MX5 is .......

White's answer to Garrett's AT Pro detector? I know the At Pro sales have been high. I've never owned or run either machine. So which one is better overall ?? i.e. unmasking, depth, EMI handling, abilities in mineralized ground, etc

I have also heard that if you cherry pick with the MX5, it don,t loose much deepth when set to coins only. Maybe Keith or someone can test that for us also. At the end of a long day, i need to quit digging to much trash as i have a bad back and just can,t keep up with the guys i hunt with. I use the MXT most of the time and they don,t beat me till i get to hurting i can dig as much. Any help on this would be nice. Thanks Flintstone

Flintstone Wrote:
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> I have also heard that if you cherry pick with the
> MX5, it don,t loose much deepth when set to coins
> only. Maybe Keith or someone can test that for us
> also. At the end of a long day, i need to quit
> digging to much trash as i have a bad back and
> just can,t keep up with the guys i hunt with. I
> use the MXT most of the time and they don,t beat
> me till i get to hurting i can dig as much. Any
> help on this would be nice. Thanks Flintstone

This reply is from someone who has used the MX5 in the dirt for over 30 hours, I do not compare detectors with air tests.

..I run my MX5 with no discrimination in the Coin Mode using the 2 tone option. With the MX5 set up this way... it reports on all the metal in the ground, ferrous targets like nails are Low Tone, Zero is the number that the break point for non-ferrous targets come in at with a High Tone. I have dug up old .22 short casings at 5" deep with a VDI reading of about(5) jumping around several numbers, this way I can avoid those targets at the old places I hunt at. When the iron nails get too thick I will use the One Tone option with the first 3 iron segments notched out, it unmasks in the iron much better and has a quicker recovery speed.
...Until I read your post, I hadn't thought of using more discrimination but with the MX5 and it's 20 segment notch Disc. system it is easy to just notch in coins only. So today, in my 15 year old coin garden, I set my MX5 Disc.with -95 through +10 notched out then +11 through +25 notched in to accept nickels it did OK on the the buried buffalo nickels at 6". I also had +26 through +60 notched out with +61 through +95 accepted and it did real well on my silver coins including my 8" silver dime and my buried Indian head pennies at 7". I was using the 6½" 5.3 Eclipse coil using 8 out of 10 bars of sensitivity, the MX5 does well in the iron trash and goes deep with this coil.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/19/2014 10:35PM by Hombre.

Thanks Hombre, That was what i was looking for. Now i know i can knot out all trash and still get good depth on coins. Some detectors just almost stop working if you set discrimination to high. I think i will start looking at getting a new MX5. Thanks again, Flintstone

Seems to me you would be comparing Whites mid-line and Garretts top line......Both make good units and back them up so to each his own.....

Whites does list them as "weatherproof" or something like that. Kinda makes you think theyre targeting the pro. Can't help but wonder how she'd do with a 13" Ultimate or 10x12 SEF.

The mx5 with a sef 10x12 is incredible! Very good combo. Didnt try the 13" ultimate but i bet its better.

basstrackerman Wrote:
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> The mx5 with a sef 10x12 is incredible! Very good
> combo. Didnt try the 13" ultimate but i bet its
> better.

I'm sure the bigger DD coils would be deeper in fairly clean areas but in some of the places I hunt at, it would not work.

At a lot of the old houses I hunt at, with such a big coil, there would be a ½ dozen targets (ferrous& non ferrous) under the coil at one time.

With the 5.3 Eclipse, I can slow walk it in the thickest trash imaginable, it is a precision coil that is almost surgical in the small ferrous trash.

basstrackerman Wrote:
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> The mx5 with a sef 10x12 is incredible! Very good
> combo. Didnt try the 13" ultimate but i bet its
> better.


I found on an explorer the ultimate gets about 1-1 1/2" more depth on a copper penny in mild dirt. Also seems to ID deep nails quite accurately. Cant beat that 10x12 for seperation AND depth though!

The sef isnt the same on all machines..on f75se its no better than stock.. But on whites machines it does very good..separation is amazing... Never really cared for the 5.3 coil. The sef 8x6 would be my choice... Its crazy good for separation and depth...

yeah! was thinkin' about snaggin' the sef 6x8 for my mx-5!
kellyco has 'em for 20% off right now!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

5.3 looks like the overall best, i see.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/08/2016 01:22PM by pinpointer999.

tnsharpshooter Wrote:
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> White's answer to Garrett's AT Pro detector? I
> know the At Pro sales have been high. I've never
> owned or run either machine. So which one is
> better overall ?? i.e. unmasking, depth, EMI
> handling, abilities in mineralized ground, etc


get the mx-5 you won't be disappointed!
damn sleeper for sure!,especially with the 5.3 eclipse coil

(h.h.!)
j.t.

Hombre Wrote:
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> basstrackerman Wrote:
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> > The mx5 with a sef 10x12 is incredible! Very
> good
> > combo. Didnt try the 13" ultimate but i bet its
> > better.
>
> I'm sure the bigger DD coils would be deeper in
> fairly clean areas but in some of the places I
> hunt at, it would not work.
>
> At a lot of the old houses I hunt at, with such a
> big coil, there would be a ½ dozen targets
> (ferrous& non ferrous) under the coil at one
> time.
>
> With the 5.3 Eclipse, I can slow walk it in the
> thickest trash imaginable, it is a precision coil
> that is almost surgical in the small ferrous
> trash.


the 5.3 coil is a monster in the junk. detector will match up with any other
machine on the market in the crap! as randy states,two tone set up with
a slow sweep gets it done. detector needs to be "tried" to realize just how good
it really is with both the 9" concentric ,and 5.3 coils.

(h.h.!)
j.t.

OK.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/08/2016 01:10PM by pinpointer999.

Is the MX5 any better than the MXT? My MXT with the 5.3 is darned good in the trash too.

The At pro is top of the line and can go in the water...I had one in Virginia at a civil war site it hit mini balls at about 9 inches that was really deep...if your a coin hunter not a relic hunter and you are at parks with trash then maybe a whites would be better. Depends on the coil size and the recovery rate and how it does in trash and maybe a mix of some iron trash..

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Can anyone on this forum tell me if they can hit a quarter buried 8" in the ground with the mx5 and the stock 9" concentric spider coil?

In my mild ground I was able to get one at 9" or a bit better.

tnsharpshooter Wrote:
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> White's answer to Garrett's AT Pro detector? I
> know the At Pro sales have been high. I've never
> owned or run either machine. So which one is
> better overall ?? i.e. unmasking, depth, EMI
> handling, abilities in mineralized ground, etc


The MX Sport is their answer to the AT Pro. MX5 I would put more in line with mid level land only units like F44, ACE400, Gamma, Omega, F5, that sort of thing.



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detectingMO Wrote:
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> tnsharpshooter Wrote:
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> > White's answer to Garrett's AT Pro detector?
> I
> > know the At Pro sales have been high. I've
> never
> > owned or run either machine. So which one is
> > better overall ?? i.e. unmasking, depth, EMI
> > handling, abilities in mineralized ground, etc
>
>
> The MX Sport is their answer to the AT Pro. MX5 I
> would put more in line with mid level land only
> units like F44, ACE400, Gamma, Omega, F5, that
> sort of thing.


Yeah we know this now,,look when this thread was started-- no such animal as MX sport.

wayfarer Wrote:
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> Is the MX5 any better than the MXT? My MXT with
> the 5.3 is darned good in the trash too.


Hi Darren, sent you a PM

regards.......Randy

wjs Wrote:
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> Can anyone on this forum tell me if they can hit a
> quarter buried 8" in the ground with the mx5 and
> the stock 9" concentric spider coil?
>
> In my mild ground I was able to get one at 9" or a
> bit better.

Thanks for the reply. I thought my results were a bit worrisome.
The 5.3 may be better. I will give it a try.

Thanks and HH



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/08/2016 01:20PM by pinpointer999.

pinpointer999......what setting were you using on the MX5? I run mine in 2 tone or 1 tone in the Coin mode using very little to no Disc. I run the Sens. as high as long it remains stable (8 or 9). Using the 6½" 5.3 Eclipse coin, have nabbed 8" silver dimes with it. First and foremost, a person need to establish a good ground balance by finding a clean piece of ground... to do that... I put the machine in pinpoint mode and find a spot. The depth reading in pinpoint mode will read 12" on a clean spot, then put it back in Coin mode and pump the coil till you get a sputtery, crappy sounding Threshold, this doesn't seem right but that is how the Threshold sounds when a good ground balance is achieved. It is a completely different machine when tuned up 'just' right, my 2¢....