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People swinging the Deus seem to do just fine finding targets. Sometimes you need to stop worrying and just hunt. A target on top of a nail during a full moon on a Friday. Meanwhile finding places to hunt is the key to success in the hobby.
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The TRX has a loyal base of which I am one. I like it much better than anything offered by Garrett.
Hmmmmm...if only we had access to a winning design that would sell and make money. Brainstorming!
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I have no ambition to trim other people's property. Call me lazy. Mowing my own grass is a pain. Maybe you retirees just got too much energy and time.
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A constant monitoring of EMI and adjusting channels automatically in the background can only be a positive. I really can't see anything negative about the removal of EMI. In fact I see potential for more gain instead of having to back it down. And to be honest some EMI is not noticeable to the ears. You don't know what signals you are not hearing.
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Well Tom depth seems to he at a stand still as far as technology advancement. More gain seems to be headlights in the fog. Work needs to be done on the reception end as well as transmission of the signal.
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EMI - 2 years ago
I raised the point on another forum. Really a question. We have tracking for ground minerals and soil conditions. We have auto sensitivity going back to FBS units. Will we see the day when the noise cancel feature is replaced or enhanced to a constant monitoring and adjusting of EMI?
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The waterproof part will probably be better than Equinox. The balance issue has to be better than the Equinox. They are finally going Bluetooth and dropping that silly color coded headphone fiasco. That is a plus. The price I will guess here and say cheaper than the Equinox. So now what I need is sensitivity to gold. Something the Equinox has on FBS machines of the past including FBS 2 and the CT
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When I was young and hunting with my dad I was digging up coins that I had no idea what they were. V nickels, Walkers, Barbers, and others. Oh that was fun times. Especially doing it with dad.
One thing that I thought would save the hobby was the introduction of high value coins. Like 5 dollar coins. Paper money never held well and I would gladly dig up dollar and 5 dollar coins. But the worl
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Well I am not Tom, but I would like to offer my opinion.
I have been detecting since I'm 12 years old. It took both hands to swing my Whites blue box detector. I am now 59. So yeah I have seen pretty much. My detector had no discrimination and was not really deep. But I would hit the old schools in my area and consistently come home with 5 to 10 silvers every hunt.
In my opinion
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So it will be a direct competitor to the Equinox 800.
It will be in the Simplex housing.
It will have a high enough frequency for gold prospecting.
It will be Bluetooth for the headphones.
Everything sounds good. I look forward to it. It will be what the Anfibio should have been.
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I agree with the OP. The 6 inch coil makes the problem worse. I stopped using it all together. The only way I can get close to being able to tell nails from good is by circling the target. Listening and watching the bouncing numbers. Combine that with the horseshoe button and I can usually tell. I still dig some. As mentioned when I start digging and the target is off to the side...well then I pr
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Garrett will not compete against themselves with the Whites brand name. Any technology breakthroughs will have a Garrett name on the label. Tesoro is gone. First Texas? Well just the posts on this forum alone over the last 5 years from some of their most loyal customers are a sign of concern.
Makro
Minelab
Garrett
XP
The rest need to step up and show the people in the hobby something w
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> Makro has always listened,and took action. I'm ass
> uming your talking about another company?
The number of companies is dwindling. I'll guess Makro multi frequency machine.
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The day that digging gold becomes 99 percent accurate is the day that the competition from people that never held a detector before becomes a reality. Digging pulltabs is hobby security.
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I use the Equinox stock coil only. It pretty much does it all. One of the best if not the best coils I have used during many years in the hobby.
The Vanquish I have never used. So I really don't know much about the performance. I like the ability to adjust the iron bias on the Nox down to zero. I would miss that.
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The price went up. The electronic industry is seeing quite a bottleneck in the availability of supply. The world is crazy right now. I bought a new bicycle this weekend. Well I put the money down. I get it in February maybe. Try to haggle down a car salesman right now. The ball is in their court.
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If you were to ask people to name the top three under 3 grand the Equinox would be on an incredible amount of those lists. I have said it many times on these forums. The Equinox was a game changer that set the bar for the future of the hobby. Price vs performance. My own personal opinion is that it is the best I have ever used. I realize my dirt is different and I have not used them all. But the
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I realize some Equinox users out there like the idea of the 10 x 5 coil. Especially if they used a similar coil in the past on other models. So I do see the appeal of the one coil. But I have yet to see any real benefits posted regarding these new coils. The stock coil will do the job on every situation I have encountered during my hunts. People have mentioned hunting between rocks and around met
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I just dont see any significant leaps in depth. The depth of detectors has been stagnant for decades. Unmasking has made strides. Those iron patches I ran from with my Eagle Spectrum I revisited many times with better detectors for the job. The CTX to be honest was not the best I have used for that purpose. It is bells a whistles designed to help ID targets at average depth. At extreme depth that
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The CTX is a fine detector. I had two of them through the years. But as I have said here before....in my opinion way over priced. Minelab proved that themselves with the Equinox.
Any new detector will need depth or unmasking ability that we have never seen before. That is the only way to justify the price. We shall see. I hope they release something crazy.
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My opinion...I have found small low conductors in the wet sand with the Equinox that I don't believe any FBS machine would have hit. That includes small gold like a girls gold ring.
Through the years large bands and class rings were easier plucking. But it would be nice to find the bling.
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I have hunted with what I would call heavy detectors. The E Trac and CTX come to mind. Using those detectors never made my arm hurt the way the Equinox did. The Equinox out of the box is a poorly balanced machine. The wobble was secondary to the just plain miserable design of the stock configuration. Steve's staff and with a counterweight is the only reason I still swing an Equinox. So I wa
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Well you are making news across a few forums with your new coil. Anything Equinox related usually does. Thanks for your opinion. I beach hunt, and during those hunts I usually end up in the splash zone. I don't like a large coil in the water for pinpointing reasons. A difference in a few seconds can mean the difference in my opinion.
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Yeah I haven't seen too many videos on this detector so I really don't have an opinion. He says he is new to it. I just wonder if it does discriminate iron. I really didn't see anything a cheaper PI can't do.
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Tom..I personally found the Deus with a wireless coil to be more influenced by EMI at a few of my sites. A great detector. I'm not bashing it. But I would have to drop the frequency and sensitivity to make sense of the signals. One reason I never showed interest in the High frequency coil.
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