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Different strokes. Pick your favorites I am not offended. I just know I have upped my gold rings with the 800 and found more silver in the last three months than maybe ever (8 years!).
It is deeper, I have a really good feel for what's there before I dig and it pinpoints like a laser. I've owned most of the top detectors and like this the best. My CTX and Excals sit home like spins
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I watched an old guy with a high end ML PI dig an 18 inch nickel in dry sand a while back and thought it was way too much work for a nickel! Doing that on trash? Life is too short and discrimination is too vague. A couple inches more ok, but 10? Who has the discipline to cut down the sensitivity? I guess I could get an excavator if not for the cost of permits...
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Hey its the 21st century already. I vote with Slick on the 'Nox. As close to a complete do all as I have found. Makro Kruser is a worthy second place. I have some CZ3Ds I'll let go cheap if that what you want.
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I gotta admit I was not thinking water, though everything seems to be getting more and more waterproof... Someone will resolve the transmission problem eventually as well, something the military is using maybe?
I am not a cover fan.
I am rooting for Fisher to bring out a killer unit.
I have a pair of custom built UW 'phones for my 800 I am VERY happy with. I always made my own for
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If the Manta or any detector, for that matter, can light it up over gold and not aluminium, slaw, etc. they can ask what they like and sell all they can make- IMHO!
My Equinox gets pretty excited over micro foil even at an impressive depth. If they could do a software update to make a setting that was gold only (no cheap imitations) I'd pony up another grand and not bat an eye. I have a R
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I dunno, there are a couple guys that started a computer company in a garage that seems to have made it. And this guy has actually worked designing/engineering detectors for decades and many of them you would recognize and may have owned! We don't know what he has done or not, or what his plans are but again he is the real deal with a prototype that looks and works really well!
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I am pretty sure this is the same guy I met on the beach several months ago. I wrote to NASA Tom about him as he said they worked at Los Banos at the same time several years ago. Tom vouched that he remembered him. He is the real deal. His unit hit in the wet salt better than my CTX and Excal. Certainly not a thorough testing, but it did bang targets better that day. We did silver, gold and
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For my money (literally) only custom made units are acceptable. Just like with the Excaliburs. I made my own with the Ex but I had an extremely skilled friend do the ones for the 'nox and it was worth every penny.
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I agree about the clock except the one on my CTX is so small I'd need a magnifying glass to read it! I am pleased that the Equinox has larger more legible read outs.
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> The equinox is the only detector I know of that has to be carried upside down.
Well, it comes from Australia, does it not?
Bottom line is it is a mid range priced detector that runs with the big dogs. It is not perfect, but I don't know of one that is at any price.
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It compares very well. All are good machines and will find rings and coins and lots of 'other' things (trash). I believe the 800 is as good as any and in some ways better than the ones you listed (in some ways anyway). It's lighter, faster easy to understand and very adjustable to conditions. It does take some learning, but I don't know of any that don't. I've h
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I too have several Excals and a CTX that has not seen action since the 800 arrived so... I just don't know what to make about it being over priced- that is why I suggested a $650 600. I think the 600 may well be the best bang for the buck going today. My Makro Racer 2 and Gold were about the same price as the 800 and while they came with extra coils, the 800 did include a very nice wirele
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First impressions can be wrong.
This is a machine that runs very well at factory settings but is tremendously adjustable. I think this may be the first time I saw over priced as an issue. Get a 600?
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Classic example of detector subjectivity! There will always be fans and foes for every device. Fisher/First Texas is a top manufacturer and makes very good stuff in my opinion (subjective, true). Nothing wrong with an F44. There are also a ton of other units that will work well, some better than others. Most people are strongly influenced by finds and much of that is dependent on what they s
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Looks like they pulled it off the web site. I get 404 errors with the links and no joy on the home page links. Could be a short reset, but I'd think its a pull back. Any one else able to see it now?
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My post was a generic rant and not tied to the original link beyond a mild grouse that an academic article would have a 'Hollywood' photo over it. I seem to have had a small reserve of Adrenalin triggered from 'fake news' overload.
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Thanks, guys. OK, I got my order in. It was not that long ago I called Bart and and some others and no one had a clue. Now at least I have a pre-order and am experiencing 800 deja vu.
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I feel like I can and do filter pretty well and I prefer letting people say what they think. But I find that reading the negative and/or hostile posts just drains the life out of me and I start looking to avoid it as I am approaching 70 and while that may seem young to some here, it reminds me that life is too short to waste on some things. This is still my favorite forum, but I find myself spe
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Come on, we live in an age of fake news and a side of it is people make money by having people open pages not telling truth. Using a fake image to set up interest in a story is mild today. How often do we get a total fake out like a story on recently deceased actors headed with a picture of someone who is not dead and people read the whole thing to see what happened only to get to the end and n
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Mr. tboykin, your quote is great but it was spoken before my wife was born. There really are people you can never please and it seems many like to detect metal. There seemed to be a rather unsettling piling on over the preview of Whites new offering. While chucking rocks is fun, its better done at inert targets than indigenous wildlife (IMO). Time will allow a reasonable test of the forthcomi
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Just back from an anniversary (46) celebration trip to Las Vegas (NV) where I spent 46 minutes hunting at 111 degrees and found 2 nickels and an old Ford key. The wife can't grasp why I was not seeing it as a waste of time. Well: A) How many go to Vegas and come back with 2 nickels to rub together? I've done worse. C) I lived to hunt another day. D) I didn't break or lose any
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