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I'll start out with a disclaimer: I don't have a Garrett AT Pro and have never used one. I'm sure it's a good detector as it has a lot of happy users. (Interpretation: I'm not a detector disser.) I do have a Minelab Eqx 800. Although the AT Pro did better in this test, not only does the setup cover a limited part of phase space (coplanar targets with fixed separation, not in the ground, coils swung directly over the objects), but why did he choose Beach 2 mode and those settings? There is such a huge choice of settings for the Eqx. Just showing us one arbitrary set and trying to draw a (negative) conclusion is meaningless. Maybe the AT Pro is better for this kind of masking situation. But the video hasn't shown that. It's shown that for settings A on the AT Pro and settings B on the Eqx that the AT Pro performs better here. This is the reason I don't even bother watching detector comparison videos. There are so many minefields, including/especially the bias of the detectorist.

Was nice day with the t2 going over some sidewalk strips.

My old headphones got all beat up over the summer plowing through the woods so I snagged a pair of Garrett Stow Aways for my Tejon. I was really surprised how good the audio really is on them. They do fit a little tight and are smaller but have a really great range of sound. Now I need to re-learn my sounds. Anyways I didn't spend much time out, maybe half hour or so and left the 10x12 coil which kills me in trashy areas but I did get a nice smooth hit on this little 18k rose gold ear ring with a few diamond chips 0.7g. Was only inch or so deep nothing to brag about.

Madtuna, I know who this person is. So do you. Obviously we cannot name him, and I received a threatening phone call from this grub when I called him out over comments he made on Facebook. He is still involved in his 'tours' to WA, so you best be on the lookout for him next season. He is not only an environmental vandal, but a racist and has left one person that I know of with huge debts over his financial fiascoes. Not at all good for the prospecting scene.

This is the mess left behind here in WA by a well known Eastern states tour company. Crap "reality" shows like Aussie Gold Hunters sure don't help and in fact have caused our station and others no end of problems. That show is so far removed from reality. It seems to attract people who usually don't have two cents to rub together, who think they can get rich quick by picking up nuggets just laying around everywhere. No clue, no grasp of reality, no research, no preparation, no brains and no care taken.

First, the video maker did not just swing over the silver object by itself so that the viewer would know what it sounded like and what target ID number was ideal. Second, the video maker is not swinging the center of the 11" DD coil completely past both sides of the silver object so very poor coil control (on purpose???). Third, those medium-high tones that he is getting along with the zinc penny and almost clad dime/copper penny numerical target IDs 18 to 23 are coming from the silver object. Depending on the quality of the silver, I would expect those big pieces of iron to drag down the silver numerical IDs and tones into the high teens to low 20s when using the Nox 600. I just replicated this test with a 3" Civil War Era square nail and a rusted piece of Civil War Era flat iron about 2" from either side of a mercury dime similar to his target layout. I am not dumb enough to put the recovery speed on 1 in this really tough situation no matter what "everyone on the internet recommends " as said by the video maker. I left recovery speed on my Nox 600 in default setting (3) and tested all six modes with sensitivity on 18. The Nox hit the mercury dime every time on every swing. I would probably assume it was three separate targets with a zinc penny being one of them in real world detecting. Also I use a little background threshold which lets me know a discriminated target is being detected. So in the real world I would have engaged the Horseshoe button and checked for iron in the vicinity. I probably would have dug the target anyway since pinpointing it would have given me three obvious separate targets. Why did he use Beach 2? Presumably he is a beach hunter. However, according to the Nox manual, Beach 2 uses the lowest power setting of all the modes for the transmit signal since it is supposed to be used submerged with conductive salt surrounding the coil not just underneath it. I can relate to his statement that he might not dig the target. I wish the Nox would not give medium-low tone and numerical target ID responses in the low to upper single digits (2 to 10) swinging over iron targets. I have learned to deal with it (by using a little threshold tone for iron nulling) but I wish iron would only false in the extreme high 30s as iron wrap around. Jeff

Just an additional data point, Andy Sabisch (Author of the Equinox Handbook) basically confirmed this forthcoming Equinox update on a recent facebook post, so that gives me high confidence that it is coming soon.

I looked at the Vid. My thought: By having the sensitivity turned all the way up to 25 AND keeping the coil right on top of the targets, he is overdriving the electronics. I have never heard of anyone being able to hunt at "25" in ground or water [but there is most likely someone who can] . It would of been nice to see results held 6" above those targets, or at 22 sensitivity. Dave

I've heard some doubts as to the veracity of me finding over 6,000 bits of gold with high frequency VLF detectors in the past few years, so I put up a slideshow on the channel too:

Nice! Looks like the ground you hunted is nice and green. Is that from sprinklers or have you had a wet September? I found a curb strip yesterday I definitely will hit, but it's been so dry here I would make a real mess digging. I hope when I get around to it that I'll have as good of results as you.

The trash in National Forest campsites is particularly noticeable and annoying. Glass, cans, paper,.... You can see it without digging and if you dare turn on your detector to hope to find a few coins you really get an ear full. But these sites are frequented by lots more than just detectorists/prospectors. What get's my goat the worst are the target practice idiots shooting up anything in site and leaving their shells laying on top of the ground. At a GPAA claim in the NF outside of Idaho Springs, CO, I was finding plastic pigeons (disks). For the most part the GPAA claims I've been on are pretty well taken care of, with a few exceptions, of course. Northern Nevada deserts have some unfilled holes, usually large&deep as if either the excavator was PO'ed he didn't find anything or too tired to fill it back in. Not making excuses for them. I fill theirs in as much as I can without spending too much of my time doing their cleanup. One surprising postive experience I had in one of the mountain towns outside of Denver. I was detecting a city park finding old coins a few ring-and-beavertail pulltabs, and old rusty crown caps. I found almost no square tabs nor fresh c-caps. I suppose it could be park employees going around cleaning up but I suspect that in this particular area people are more respectful of shared land. Not enough of that in this world, that's for sure.

Just be careful. There are much worse things than having your personal property stolen/destroyed. You're obviously not dealing with anyone with a conscience/morals/respect for others.

Went to San Francisco and met my friend Joe. Next day we have been invited by Wes Dering to detect on one of his claims in the Iowa Hill area. On the way we stopped at Citrus Hills visiting Larry at Big Valley Metal detectors who let me try different headphones with my SDC2300. I settled for the Sunray Pro Gold which felt most comfortable and best sounding to me. Thank’s Larry it was a real pleasure to meet you! From there we went to meet Wes. He sold a very nice light and rugged pick to me before which he mailed to my friend’s house. Meeting him he showed us around the claim and off we went with lots of big dreams. I have to say that I come from Germany and have never found a square nail before. So I was wishing to find one square nail and lots of Gold. It seems like the Good Lord listened to just one part….I found a bunch of square nails but no Gold. I was lucky to assist Wes unearthing 3 nice nuggets from the same hole. He was using the GPZ7000 I was running my SDC2300. Putting 1 nugget (approx 2 grams) back in the hole and running the machines over there wasn’t any signal to be heard from the SDC but the 7000 sounded off real nice. Big difference between those 2 machines. Big difference in price also! Wes suggested to run the SDC in sensitivity 4 instead of 2 as the signals are more distinct. The machine kept stable so I ran it in 4. We had a great day and lots of fun. I was using my Equinox 800 as well. Gold 1 setting / Iron to 0 / swing speed 6-7 / sensitivity around 18-20 / nothing out -9-8-7 / ground tracking / small coil it was stable, ground balanced well but did not find gold either. Bits and pieces of lead and wire, 22 casings and square nails. With both machines I found some insane small stuff. Next day we went to a claim on the N Yuba and camped out for some days. Panning some nice flakes, snorkeling looking for crevices, using the vacuum cleaner on the bedrock and metal detector. My total take from panning is 1.2 grams. I finally found a good signal in bedrock. That had to be Gold – finally!!!!! Breaking the bedrock a small piece of very thin wire came to daylight…..grrrrrrr!!!!!! However it got in there???? Going to some other places finding many items including an old tobacco can (I was hoping for some gold coins or nuggets inside but there weren’t any) but no Gold. Second last day I finally got lucky. My SDC2300 rang up on two little pieces. They looked just like rock but weren’t magnetic. Checking them with my Equinox 800 in Gold 1 the smaller piece showed a clean +1 the bigger piece a +2. I did not believe it was Gold but took them home. Being at home now I checked them under the microscope and they are specimen containing Gold. Finally!!! yeah yeah yeah!!!! It is really sick how small of a gold these machines picked up. On my last day we went to Roaring Camp (if you haven’t been there you are missing something) where I panned a little bit of Gold from the day pile (just 10 pans or so) and found a .38 bullet which sounded off real nice with my SDC2300 – no nuggets (they are there for sure). I would like to thank my friend Joe who made all this possible, Larry from Big Valley Metal Detectors, Wes Dering for a very nice pick, a great day on his claim and some nice gold he gave to me as a present to take home, Gregg and Mike, Kim from Roaring Camp, Steve Herschbach for his advice how to run the Equinox on hot ground and some nice folks who’s names I forgot who made it possible to prospect on the N Yuba and Kanaka creek. One of the best pieces of Equipment I invested in is my 2 liter water bladder for my backpack (Camel bag) but for the next rip I will get me a 3 liter. 2 liters is just not enough fluid for a whole day in +100 F. Folks, don’t get dehydrated this is a very serious issue.

Totally agree with Busho, about the idiots who wreck it for all, then go on to attack and rubbish so called 'greenies', for the negative public reaction to the mess they themselves have left. In Australia we have a certain number of 'prospectors' who believe they have the God given right to do as they please in the bush.

Congrats on the finds! I would have to think there's more around there to. Good luck and HH!

Walking back and retrieving my back pack with pan, 1/4” screen, pick and such, I decided to sample this cut bank. Filling a pan with screened material from this top grey layer and washing it out at the river turned up a nice flat flake and a few, smaller, pepper sized pieces of gold. Feeling pretty tired from hunting adventure, I screened out and panned two 5 gallon buckets filled only 1/2 full. Total of about 5 gallons of material. From this 5 gallons of the top grey layer I panned out .54 gram of gold. I didn’t get into the red sand or bottom original layers. Yet! I too am getting a little old for such hard hunting and prospecting oldmancoyote1, so I just relaxed the following day and returned home with the venison and a little gold the next day. I guess what I’m getting at is: gold in this Northern California area, with the tremendous amounts of rain we get, can be throughout a gravel bar or concentrated in these layers. In your smaller creek it may be more productive to concentrate on the edges of the stream where the layers are more evident and accessible. Obstructions to the flow of the creek such as outcrops, sharp bends, drop offs and the like should be checked out. I take off on another deer hunting trip with my sons in the mountains downstream of Happy Camp tomorrow. I’m sure I’ll have time for a little prospecting too. Good prospecting oldmancoyote1, Mike

I forced myself to lean and only use 50 tones, because I figured if one focused on the audio, they would learn nuances and clues. Still plenty to learn, but I mainly hunt by tones, although there are certainly patterns I enjoy seeing on the TID display as well. I've seen, and recorded silver dimes ringing up anywhere from 23 - 32, that's a big spread, but they were all depths, angles, orientations, some holed, some holed multiple times, etc., and they all had one thing in common, a tinkly dig me audio characteristic. So while the TID# may not always be the same, the audio is usually telling. Certain sites seem to bring the TID#'s up or down, mineralization, depth, types of dimes (thin seateds vs meaty barbers and mercs?), tough sites with heavy alkali or other mineralization can skew the numbers in any number of ways.

I have had my 800 since the end of April. I have to admit I was a little skeptical of all the hype but after using it a lot I the last 3 months or so , I am very impressed. This past Friday I was at a new site and when I picked up the detector to take it out of the truck the coil fell off. Both the mounting tabs were broken. I am pretty particular with my equipment so I really don’t think it was anything I did. I emailed the repair center and has been my experience in the past, they were prompt in their response and had shipping instructions to me that same day. They said the coil would be replaced under warranty but would take a few days because the service center had run out of coils and they were currently on backorder. This leads me to believe their must be a lot of people who have had the same issue. It will be interesting to see if this new batch of coils has beefed up the mounting tabs. They really are kind of flimsy when compared to the Explorer series of coils. I don’t mind the wait, it gives me a chance to get to know my 6 in. coil.

I just received a new to me SDC2300 and wanted to verify it using the Minelab security check on their website. I did not receive the viewer that was originally included with the detector so what worked for me was a coolant leak detector flashlight ( black light or UV light) It works well enough for me to read the hidden code and I was able to verify my machine.

I went out today for a couple hours to a school not visited previously. The old wood chip tot lot was the target area. All I ended up finding were 4 quarters, 2 nickels, 7 pennies, a small button off something, a rivet off some clothing or a shoe, and a strange metal piece that showed up in the foil range. There were indeed some junk items today but not in the picture (can slaw, a zipper, foil, a few pencil tops). I had the feeling someone else had been at this spot before because it was really quiet. Well they didn't get these! It's getting more and more difficult in these places and the finds are more difficult to pull. All the other counties around us where there are probably good things located within school grounds have a strict "KEEP OUT" policy and don't allow any kind of public activity on school grounds.

Hi guys. In the last couple of years I've noticed where I live an increase, visible and noticable, of gold detectorists doing the wrong thing. Leaving all their holes unfilled, rubbish from camps and even their actual crap and crap paper just lying there in plain site. Some even digging on tracks leaving pot holes to drive over. Yeah, there are plenty that do the right thing but the pigs are now increasing. A while ago I went to Castlemaine in Vic, you gotta be kidding me, I must have been greeted by about 100 holes and scrapes unfilled and actual crap and the paper on the walk track! Just saw similar at Avoca with a big dug up, raked area, unfilled holes and the rest. A while ago at Dunolly the same and again at Stuart Mill. Is it any wonder they want to shut people out of the bush here these days. Im getting sick of seeing it. Whats it like in the US?

I wanted something lighter than the ms-2's and something i can hear around me as some parts are pretty rough out here. Yes those are the ones I got. I might replace my MS-2's with them later on as those are pretty beat up and I already patched the wires. MS-2's are really comfortable and light weight but I'm finding the full size is too much in the summers. I can't compare sounds between them as they are on 2 different detectors. I can't justify buying a nice pair of Ghosts so they get trashed as I stumble through the woods. Maybe if I was in the fields and parks they would be great The earring/charm broke just around the nickel range. Is nice to find especially since I was hitting only trash earlier, not even a zinc penny!

That is the same as I have heard about FBS. 2 at a time. Might as well stay with ET.

Jeff.... on edge it depends on which angle the MEET of the coin crosses the coil. One angle you get more for it to read.

My favourite coil for general use, would be my Cors Scout. I find it a good compromise (?) of coverage, weight, balance, sensitivity & accuracy in pinpointing. Other coils in my collection are Teknetics 5", great in hard stubble & trashy sites, 8x6 SEF, good in softer stubble & taller grass etc, Cors Cannon, a tad on the heavy side, but for cruising pasture land, ideal. Kinda hit & miss on pinpointing though. Had a Detech Ultimate 13" for a while, but it gradually "faded away", as in it lost it's effectivenes over a period of time. I didn't realise there was a problem until one frosty day. I used the Ultimate in the morning, didn't dig much, then swapped to the 8x6 SEF at lunchtime. Immediately the field came to life. Walked over the same patch as I'd walked earlier, and within a few minutes I'd dug a couple of musket balls and a Bullhead Sixpence. Later checked the screw connector for loose/broken wires, but couldn't find any faults there, so assumed i must be an issue within the coil itself. Great coil I thought, but the reliability concerned me. No one seemed willing to attempt a repair, so it got binned. Replaced with the Cannon. Bought the T2 used, and found it rather noisy........................... Turned out the stock coil was goosed. That was when I got the Ultimate.

Gerry, I hope you will have a good training session. The very interesting part was that on the Friday when I got up the 2.37g nugget was my first target. After my travels later on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (I needed to see what I was researching) I spent the night in the Eugenes. I didn't find anything there from sun up until 9 AM so I took off for the burn barrel again. My first target when I got there (near where I found the other nugget but on the other side of the road) was that little nugget. I started Thursday with Lunk's settings with some adjustment to the sensitivity. I didn't detect on the training hill but places near and also not on 20. I kept those settings for most of Friday also. The Monday nugget was found with low smoothing. I was beginning to experiment with Locate Patch on and normal/difficult because there were a couple of places with ground groan. I was willing to let a little more noise get into my headphones as time went on. Maybe I should have done that in Australia as well. Mitchel

The last 523 bits on the slideshow were with the 24K, but not including 20 more with 7 found yesterday (see pic)...the bottom 5 on the scales are bits off the Welcome Stranger 😁

Sorry to hear Jason, If I get back out that way, I will keep an eye out. I know the feeling, had my travel trailer burned down, everything stolen, and my storage in Dolan Springs broke into 2 times. Meth heads getting crazy out there... Dave

Detect-Ed has recognized this flaw and markets some alternative inserts to mitigate coil ear wear. Check it out.

Don't forget to point out all the dogs that have died this summer from swimming in algae. Get the dog lovers riled up and you'll see some action.

Your dead right Reg. It dumbfounds me at times. I even know, not here say, of a prominent PMAV member who actually had manufactured and sold hookup (illegal) behind 4wd scraper blades to pull out the scrub. And the hide of them, they all in it know about them, to say they "fight for our Aussie right to prospect" what a joke! They're part of the reason the powers hate it!

Get those bastards Jason!

In Aust. it is the fortune hunters thinking with no experience that they are going to get rich quick, that leave a mess behind including those illegal prospector that have access to earth moving equipment. Most hobby and full time prospectors try to keep things as they were, even if it is to prevent claim jumpers knowing where they are.

Was a loyal Whites guy for a long time and finally had it. Loved the TDI SL but they refused to make the factory modifications to the unit that eventually I (with an electrician friend of mine) found a way to "scab in" myself. Talked with Tom about it for over a year and he said just be patient; "improvements to the SL are coming soon"...........nada. Most every time I would call up there wanting to just talk, I would get nothing but attitude. One particular lady in customer service was exceptionally aloof and abrasive . I'd had about enough of these people. Then earlier this year an event took place that made it easy for me to say good by to Sweet Home forever. New coils came out for the Minlab SDC 2300, a unit I'd been wanting to buy for a long time but kept putting it off in my long patient wait for the Whites "promised" TDI upgrades. Thats it.......I'm out! Bought the SDC and loving it, spent the last 6 months selling off all my Whites detectors. Done all I could do to stay with this American detector company but eventually felt abandon by it, suppose I'm a Minlab guy now. Decided to keep my Sierra Gold Trac though in honor of Jimmy Sierra. He and I had many conversations.......great guy and another loss to this company. My hunch is Tom B began to feel the ship he was sailing on is headed for the reef. Time to get the hell off and move on. Innovate or evaporate the old saying goes, Tesoro may have some company soon. Hope I'm wrong but I think I hear the death rattle.

Wanted to add a note: The black sinkers are lead that have come in contact with hydrogen sulphide. Had to look that up because usually sinkers oxidize and turn white. I believe in this particular pond the houses around it are using high phosphate fertilizers causing algae blooms which then deplete the oxygen.... yadda yadda. Anyways off to another crusade and see if i can get the town to crack down on the type of fertilizer these people are using. That pond used to be crystal clear good dozen years ago and you could see the bottom 15+ ft down. Now it's murky.

Phrunt, Have you put in an order? Mitchel

Let me catch up on a couple of nugget pictures. That is the bigger one weighed. It is a nice little chunk and that is the other side of it. The second nugget I found was after traveling a few hundred miles, a couple of nights away and going back to the same general area where I found the first one. I got out of the car and walked about 40 feet and heard a target. It was this little nugget. I gridded this area for the next three hours before the wind got me and didn't find any more. That's it for the nuggets. I'll include more about this trip and I have a couple of other threads I want to start or add to. This is a little nugget of something I found. I'm going to get someone to shoot it with a XRF and see for sure. It was found at a site that had both gold and silver. I didn't find any gold.

Great points and questions Harry. There is a tremendous amount of gold all along the Klamath River. Within these large and small gravel bars, both deep and shallow, are numerous flood layers along with the layers from the original dredging and hydraulic operations. With close observation and experience they become quite apparent and predictable. Each or all can be surfaces for migrating gold to come to rest. Sample, sample, sample. The year before last I met my sons over in Trinity County for some deer hunting. They hiked into the high country wilderness while I stayed in the lower elevations. One of them killed a nice buck and left for home the following day. As I had taken a week off from work, I stayed camping and hunting. Naturally the day after they left I killed a modest buck which required a difficult drag back to the closest road. This, with hanging it and skinning it that evening left this old guy pretty darn tired. With about 5 more days to my vacation I decided to drive to Happy Camp and hang the buck in the Kingfisher Markets cooler until I headed for home. Actually I had them cut, wrap and freeze the venison so I could stay longer. Any way, getting back on track, I set up camp in a local Forest Service campground, right along the Klamath River, not far from Happy Camp, for a little R & R. Next morning, with a cup of coffee in hand, I took a walk along the river. As I walked along a large gravel bar I noticed a cut bank about 3 feet high on the land side of the bar. Within this cut bank were 3 distinct layers of material deposited by past events. The bottom layer was ancient compacted stream bed cobble which I believe had never been worked. This layer is a rather pale yellowish, brown with black coated cobble. On top of this is a very distinct layer of coarse red sand which most likely was washed downstream from old timers dredging or hydrolic operations. The top layer was a grey mixed size cobble, from suitcase size rocks right on down to sand. I think this top layer was created by the 1964 flood. Truly a 100 year flood. Opps, time to go to work. About a 45 minute drive up the Smith River canyon here in Nortthern California.

Thanks everyone for your likes. You know who you are. 😊 Ok, I got blown off of Rye Patch today about noon to one sort of thing. This was after finding another little one of .26g before the wind started. I had a chance to weigh the first one and it is 2.37g. It's late because a semi truck went over the side of the road north of Hawthorne/Walker Lake and we had to sit and wait for 3 hours! More on that and other parts of the trip when I return.

Man, that is a small bracelet. But its GOLD!!!! any day with gold in the pouch is a GOOD day. HH Mike

My guess is a common stone with a weathering rind.

Just my opinion Steve, but I would have it documented and keep it unaltered. It has to be worth far more, historically and financially, as is than turned into something else. If you really wanted a ring make a replica then alter that.

Forget the obsessing over detector models and “depth”. The real game is to have a detector appropriate for the task, know it inside and out, put yourself on good locations, and put in LOTS of hours. Don’t look for reasons not to dig, look for reasons to dig. To be successful you need to be metal digging, not metal detecting. Most of all, enjoy what you are doing, or find something else to do!

My experience with Coil Knocking on the EQ-800 is this. The detector coil knocks much easier than most other detectors I have used. But at the same time, it also finds more too. The large 15" coil is by far the worst and when I use it to hunt in the gold fields I am running a SENS around 17. With the stock coil the bump knock is not as bad and I run my SENS usually around 19. As Steve mentioned, the small 6" coil is much more stable with not as much bump knock and I can run higher SENS. Now a couple of my Field Staff run as close to 25 SENS and just deal with the bump knock. We all find gold so not sure who is doing it best or right wrong. I'll try Chase's knowledge of the Ground Balance and see what happens for me at my sites.

A lot is good!

A lot. I don’t have any way to quantify that, it’s just been my experience using the smaller coil.

Yep, auto ground balanced and tracking on in gold mode, auto ground balanced in park mode. Sensitivity has little effect. I've lowered it to under 10 and the knocking didn't go away. I assumed dealing with the knocking was the better choice.

My experience is that knock sensitivity occurs if the manual or auto GB reading is high. I first noticed then when I started using the Equinox in highly mineralized ground that forced the GB number high (you can't necessarily make a direct correlation to the GB number and the level of mineralization, but in this case, I knew that the ground was mineralized). Anyway, I noticed coil bump sensitivity whenever I hit a corn stalk. In fact, I could just shake the coil in the air and get noise due to the coil vibration. I thought I had a coil problem, but when I switched to a mode that had GB at the 0 default setting the bump sensitivity went away. I lowered the GB setting manually on the mode I was using (I believe it was Field 2) and the bump sensitivity went away. I subsequently noticed that the "2" modes (Park 2/Field 2) and Gold mode were most sensitive to this phenomenon, which makes sense because these are the "hottest" (most powerful) modes, also. So, similar to what phrunt was driving at, see if lowering the GB setting makes a difference. Unfortunately, if you need to keep GB set where it is for optimal GB you may be stuck, but perhaps you can try running at default GB (in Multi IQ) of 0 or at least a manually set lower GB setting and see what happens because the Equinox in Multi IQ is pretty good at compensating for a less than ideal ground balance. HTH

Definitely do dig them Phrunt!! My last two gold rings were a pull tab signal and a zinc penny signal. Both were in places I’ve detected before and can almost guarantee that I passed them because it was hot and I’d already dug my share of similar ID junk targets.

I think all of the companies have waded into the Marketing Malarkey at one time or another. White's once advertised the DFX as running 6 frequencies. Garrett once claimed the Infinium was 99 frequencies, though that one gave me a chuckle as it was clearly a tongue-in-cheek poke at Minelab. Recently, FTP marketing was wanting to make some kind of weird technical claim about the upcoming Impulse/Manta, but (hopefully) I shot that one down. If a product is good, you shouldn't have to lie about it. And if you do have to lie about a product, it means a lot of other things have gone wrong.