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Been lucky to travel a little with metal detector. Below - 1st pic is Positano, Italy and I detected the beach. Found some coins and a sterling ring. 2nd pic (below) is my 1st ever one ounce gold nugget. Found on the runway at Ganes Creek, Alaska. 3rd pic (below) is from Australia and the hot ground. 4th pic is from Bahamas Detecting England in the early Spring Rains and some of the success from the group trip. Interior of Mexico and the soldiers watching over/protecting the gold Anyone been around old mining should know what this is...MX Lake Tahoe and the rock statues watching the gold. I was able to earn a little yellow heavy metal from Lake Tahoe. Last pic - My CTX-3030 says something metallic in the rock.

Here are some of my haunts.

Wife and I have been prospecting and nugget hunting in this area since the 1980's. We've been fortunate finding wire and leaf gold specimens.

I got back to Montana a week ago and the weather was great until last night. Hahaha! No gold yet since I have been back but I ended my winter in Arizona with an ounce of gold.

Yeah most mornings bare foot is the way to go on the beach.. Thongs/flip-flops come in handy along creeks.. I've also got scuba booties and steel-cap work boots in the back of my 4X4 somewhere.. Like detectors, tools for the job.. I wore my thongs/flip-flops this morning when I found some more oldish coins (1938 - 1943) in the creek below the sand dune in the picture above.. They're in much better nick than their saltwater cousins.. I had to knock-off early because the detector ran out of juice..

Why wait until next gen? XP has done a great job at addressing the issue today AFAIAC. I am able to regularly run the Deus 2 at greater than 90% of max sensitivity with great depth compared to my Nox 800 and 900 that seem to struggle if within visual line of site to known noise sources such as cell/radio towers, transmission lines, Wi-Fi emitters, or even other detectors and pinpointers. So to answer your questions… Yes, I would. Deus 2 seems to deal with it better than any other SMF machine I have used (Nox 800, Nox 900, Legend, Vanquish) but there are still some “grid-connected” houses that challenge even the D2. Just to be clear, EMI encompasses all electromagnetic emitters including WiFi which is just a radio operating at 2.5 and 5 GHz (same frequencies as Cell towers though cell towers have elevated transmitting antennas and powers and Bluetooth audio that transmit at very low powers. Cell phones are somewhere between WiFi routers and cell towers in terms of transmit power and all IT gear, Alexa’s, TVs, Webcams, GoPros, Printers, and even watches have WiFi and/or BT). Then you have high power transmission lines and transformers, other radio frequency emitters (radar, aircraft, terrestrial radio and HDTV transmitters, and satellite commas), electric cattle and dog fences, fluorescent lights, LED power converters, cracked insulation in power boxes, internal combustion engines with alternators and rotating generators, electric vehicles (including e-bikes!) with static electronic motor drives, and even transient natural emitters such as lightning, cosmic rays, and solar flares. Manufacturers can deal with this issue by providing sufficient shielding but the issue is complex. How is the EMI manifesting itself? What type and how is it getting into the detector (i.e., via the coil or via the control box)? (A myriad of different problems with different mitigations/solutions). The mitigations are generally limited by manufacturing cost (providing sufficient shielding) and environmental variables vice technical capability. If a manufacturer is relying solely on an operating frequency shift as a band-aid mitigation, that is woefully inadequate. Furthermore, the issue is exacerbated by the fact that these are sensitive instruments working at sensing micro watts and in a world that is spewing EMI from megawatt sources in many cases. That’s a 1x 10^12 range (a 1 with 12 zeros after it). Not to mention that the detector’s microprocessor electronics self generates EMI that has to be dealt with just like it has to deal with your nearby phone, GMRS radio or GoPro. And if it is a simultaneous multifrequency detector, you must let in a wider bandwidth of The FCC and similar international governing organizations actually try to combat the issue by limiting consumer and industrial users to stringent EMI emissions limits. If manufacturers actually follow those refs and guidelines (beyond just the certification testing) then EMI is greatly mitigated. I suspect the issue is that a lot of shady stuff goes on and bypasses the regulatory certifications resulting in a lot of spurious EMI that is hard to mitigate. It is, but at some point the cure can also mitigate detector performance somewhat, and then there is the R&D investment (huge testing time and cost sink) and the recurring manufacturing cost of implenting physical shielding mitigations. At some point, for a non-safety critical consumer device, it may just not be worth the trip to go above and beyond FCC or CE certification requirements as far as the manufacturers are concerned. So, how do you work with what the manufacturers give you? Here's my approach with a simultaneous multifrequency machine. My basic philosophy is not maximize depth to the extent practical, but to take the depth you get by maximizing signal to noise ratio to the extent practical. 1) If you can avoid EMI laden sites, do so or at least stay as far away as possible from the visible sources of noise such as cell towers or other antennas, transmission lines, electric fences, transformers, motors (e.g., a well or water pump house), or "grid-connected" structures that may have power and wifi. 2) Run the manufacturer's noise cancel routine, which is just a quiet channel frequency scan. If you have near field sources of EMI (cell phone, pinpointer, another detectorist) have them nearby and energized when you run the noise cancel. I honestly do not think the manual sensitivity setting should have any bearing on how a frequency scan is accomplished but the manufacturers are not entirely clear on this aspect, either. 3) Make sure you understand the difference between EMI and ground noise. Ground noise will only manifest if the coil is moving. If all is quiet with the coil not moving but things get unstable when you swing, then the issue is ground noise not EMI. Do a ground balance, cancel out the ground signal with disc or notch, or lower transmit power as necessary. 4) Avoid running at max sensitivity unless you can but reduce sensitivity if you are still getting interference on the "quiet" channel. If that is the case, and you are concerned that you have to lower sensitivity too much, then change modes to a different simultaneous multifrequency profile (avoid high sensitivity modes, if possible, such as high frequency micro gold modes, as they are more susceptible to both EMI and Ground Noise). You may have to re-run the noise cancel (quiet frequency channel) routine as that is typically mode specific. Trial Run SMF modes you would not consider ideal for your environment such as beach modes at a farm site, etc. You never know when some experimentation might reveal a non-obvious solution to the issue and enable to utilize the advantages of SMF. 5) If no simultaneous multifrequency channel achieves an acceptable combination of quiet and sensitivity, then try going to single frequency. Typically middle of the road frequencies do best (8 to 15 khz) against both EMI and ground effects. But again, experimentation is key. 6) Re-run the noise cancel routine as needed. Especially if you get closer to those noise generating sources at the site or if you and your buddy's detectors are interfering with each other. That often cleans the problem right up. HTH

Since there are many members here from different countries and points of the compass, I thought it may be interesting to start a pictorial thread. Show us favourite pics of the countryside you pass through or hunt in for gold and relics. I will kick it off with these from country South Australia. The Flinders Ranges.

May 30 2002 We ended up with 9/10 of an ounce of gold out of yesterday’s work. Jacob was saying that if we are going to bring in an excavator we should just do it now. He didn’t want to wait. I explained to him again that we need to wait for our permit to be approved. As if on cue, while we the crew sat around camp this morning eating breakfast, who decides to show up? The government agent from the Forest Service. He came walking into camp with a fine howdy due and told us we were going to be approved and needed to post our bond. He said the paperwork would be sitting in his office tomorrow, which was Friday and the last of the month. Then he said we’d needed to post our bond. If we wanted to start immediately, we needed to put a CD in place at the bank payable to the Forest Service and we were good to go. Hallelujah, we are in business. When the agent left we all started talking about our plan. Jacob was really excited to mine with some digging equipment. We decided to buy a mid-sized excavator at a lot in town.We had been eyeing it for several weeks. This would put a sizable dent in our gold count but we figured to make up for it in pay gravel volume quickly. So we took the day off from digging and Jim and I went into town to conduct business. When we concluded, I stopped and bought some good whisky and beer for the crew. We had ourselves a big supper and sat around the campfire drinking and talking about the mine and all the gold we were going to get. Before we knew it the time had slipped right past us and it was 1:00 AM. We all headed for our campers. Tomorrow will be a big day for us. TO BE CONTINUED ..................

Thanks Jeff, as you know the video was filmed to show the Vanquish was operating at a higher gain more stable than the Nox in that particular EMI environment and I was wondering at the time if it was due to it's elliptical coils. The video clearly shows the noise cancel at the point I started the video working as the EMI is crazy with ID numbers going wild, the noise cancel completes and that stops, no more false ID numbers, just slight EMI blips, I then move on testing other modes to try find one as stable as the Vanquish. It was filmed 3 years ago or something and the intended purpose was not to suit Digalicious's argument that noise cancel does not work or I would have focused more on proving it does work in the video, but a side effect of that video was it shows for a short time that noise cancel did indeed stop the Target ID falsing. If I wanted to prove it does work I could go and film it now, but I know it does so there is little point, I'm not wasting my time doing that video for someone that is intent on believing it doesn't' work. Noise cancel works fantastic on detectors like the GPZ and even older 4500 too. The Manticore noise cancel appears to work very well.

Like Chase mentioned, I would rather detect than make a video and suffer the consequences of having someone critique it the way Simon's was above. I am not seeing anything wrong with Simon's videos by the way. They do show a noticeable reduction in audible and visible effects of EMI. Thank you Simon for posting them.

Easy-peasy, I took the liberty of starting the video right at a spot showing noise cancel on the Nox working. It's an old video I did some years ago showing the Vanquish working better in high EMI than the Nox, so you could go from the start if you wanted also, it's only a short video. Noise cancel is also highly effective on the older GPX series detectors and the GPZ and I can easily be demonstrated working on them. I still think frequency shift on older single frequency detectors like my T2 works best.

Took my new/used CTX out for its first hunt. This was a 1935 site I hit hard last Fall with a Nox 600. I was impressed with how the CTX rooted out coins-on-edge and those buried amongst the trash. '16 dime, '46 dime, '44 quarter, and 21 pennies. The '46 dime completed my collection of Canadian silver dimes from '38 to '68. I used the "User" button to cycle between the factory "coin" program (50 tones) and a custom program (5 tones, combined). The soil was wet, full of bottle caps and iron bits. Auto Sensitivity (+3) reduced the number of false signals. Response: "Normal". Target Separation: "Ferrous/coin". I didn't find the CTX's weight overly taxing on my old body. If anything, it encouraged me to slow my swing-rate a bit. Not a bad thing....

I think competition was the reason behind the releases more so than shareholders. The competitors have them spooked.

I borrow a tinny every now and then to get to spots where weekend boaties go to shore for picnics.. Yesterday I was at Youngs Bay, got stuck in the mud at low tide but did find an old picnic spot where I scored a 1928 florin and a few pennies.. I'm the only detectorist left on the island, the other boys gave up because they weren't finding anything.. They blame me for getting up early everyday and hogging the place.. 😄 And yeah mate, I'm keeping a very close eye on your beach.. I follow the creeks which flow into the 'lagoon' looking for those sort of spots.. During the wet season when creeks are flowing there's always people popping up in the most unlikely places.. There's some great secluded swimming holes on the island where I often find bits of jewellery and coins.. Detecting around creeks and swimming holes always make a nice change from saltwater/beach hunting..

My little girl with her first nugget

One of the best things about metal detecting is the places it can take you.... Alaska Arizona Australia California England Hawaii Nevada

Okay, figured it out. Some of the country I like to roll around in. - Dave

Here's my playgrounds.... High mtn lake and snow pic same mtn 5 miles from the shack.... Kinda neat to see everybody's areas!

I can't put any up of exact locations I'm doing the prospecting not to reveal where I am going which is a shame but a few photos going to places along the way to my missions. I have to take this road to get to every spot. If only I could show the actual prospecting locations, they are generally very nice spots but these give you an idea of the area.

Got home from work today and had the urge to hit a park I've been hunting for four years. Only having an hour and a half to get it done I grabbed my 800 with my new Steve's 3 piece shaft and six inch coil and headed out. I parked the truck turned on the 800 and realized I needed to pair my headphones due to my factory reset. I got it done and walked across the driveway took one swing and got a really nice tone (32) ID. It sounded like a silver dollar but I get fooled sometimes. Shovel in and a little pinpointer action and a finger scrape and the goodness showed itself. It was a 1950 Franklin half dollar with a giant nail next to it. I figured it couldn't get any better so I continued to make my way around the big old cherry tree to see what else was there. A hand full of clad and my time closing in, I made it back within 15 feet of where I found the Franklin. I got another really great tone with the same 32 ID. I was wondering what the chances of finding two silver half's in the same day. Well I would say 100% when out came the second Franklin a 1962. It was an amazing feeling knowing I have not dug one of those let alone two in very very long time. Oddly I dig a lot of silver half's but rarely these. Today was apparently a day when the detecting gods pointed me in the right direction.

There has been quite a bit of discussion about the Deus audio and how target TID can differ from target audio. In my effort to learn the D2 more thoroughly, I've been trying to learn the sounds and diferences between Tones vs Pitch vs Full Tones and PWM vs Square audio. I came from a square tone world so working in PWM has taken some getting use to, but I am finally starting to get the hang of it. I still like Square audio and really like Pitch tones, but have forced myself to use Full Tones in PWM to train my ears. One of the main advantages I am learning with PWM is that it gives more subtle audio information that can help with identifying targets. I was reminded of this again last weekend when I was invited by a detecting buddy to help out on a Ring Rescue mission. He is the consummate jewelry detectorist and a member of Ring Finders. So I met up with him a tiny house to look for a lost wedding ring set in a small gravel covered yard. It was a short hunt and we both covered the area with no luck. Since we still had an hour or two to kill and some sunshine to burn, we decided to hit a small park that I had never been to. This is when the D2 decided to teach me another lesson. I decided to start off in the Silver Slayer program (Fast, Notch to 40, No upper Notch, Pitch in Square audio) to cover more area in the short time we had. I had only travelled a short way across the field glancing at every good sounding TID looking for nickel and dime to quarter range signals when I noticed a recurring 57 number popping up. That's usually a junk target in my parks, but as the D2 would explain, not always. That's when I stopped and changed back to my Fast Full Tone program with PWM audio and retraced my steps. I could hear a familiar wavy/scratchy with iron bump sound with most of the 57s but one sang out hard and round. I dug all the 57s and I'm glad I did, because the really good sounding one turned out to be a 10K gold ring with a heart shaped Fire Opal two small diamonds! The D2 reminded me to stick with the lesson program and complete my training and I will, although I'll happily accept more lessons like that! 😎 To recap the lesson plan: See with Your Ears...

The thing is they (Minelab) don’t really think they are in a mess. Despite distributors and dealers grousing or taking their ball and going home, ML are still selling Nox 700 and 900’s, Manticores, and now Xterra Pro’s like hotcakes to the hobbiests and still have a huge PI market share in Africa with the legacy GPX and GPX 6000. The drowning Nox and ML downplaying that issue seems like a faint memory with zero permanent damage to their rep. As long as the detectorists are still buying the latest and greatest ML toy whether they need it or not (see the Xterra Pro pretzel logic on these forums) and are willing to go to the Dark Side to do so while abandoning their long term relationships with dealers so they can get their Manticores off Cabelas because they “just gotta have it right now”, then ML’s Dr. Evil approach is working just fine. Who needs relationships and friends when you can just be rich. Gordon Gecko was right, “Greed is good!” at least as far as ML is concerned. Will there be any long term consequences? Doubtful unless someone comes up with a treasure machine that is truly innovative and not just a clone or iteration of the original Nox. XP is sort of marching to the beat of their own drum to a certain extent, but when it comes down to it, at the heart of things essentially what you have with the Deus 2 is just the alternative to the Manticore. Nokta and Quest are just cloning ML while refining the wheel with bells and whistles and a little price pressure and dealing with lawsuits from…ML. Garrett has made some hay with the Axiom but is falling behind on the hobbiest front. And FT is just lost in the wilderness.

I don't like how metal detector companies have used the words Noise Cancel for a process that at best is only Noise Reduction. I have owned single frequency VLF detectors that operate at 15 kHz or less that were absolutely unusable at some local sites even 10 years ago. These detectors only had very slight frequency shifts which helped very little. Using them now would be a joke. The same goes for all of the pulse induction detectors that I have ever owned. If you think EMI is bad using a VLF at a site, try using a pulse induction detector with a mono coil at that same site. The only recourse is to try an Anti Interference DD coil which will significantly reduce EMI interference but also overall sensitivity too. I have used all of the Vanquish models, the Equinox models, the Legend and Deus 2 at the same sites I referenced in the previous paragraph. If I insist on running them at maximum sensitivity, I won't be able to distinguish between random EMI audio responses/target IDs and actual target responses no matter how many times I do a noise cancel (reduction). I can switch to 20 or 40 kHz single frequency and crank up the sensitivity some BUT due to ground mineralization, I will lose a ton of depth and target ID accuracy. So, instead of freaking out or thinking a bunch of negative thoughts, I just lower the sensitivity and stay in the most quiet simultaneous multi frequency mode available that I can find and start detecting.

Nice detective work Erik ! I knew you were talking footwear , the alternative would have been just too unthinkable ! No no no no no ! 😵 Careful what you wish for people !!!!!!!!! Erik might have to deal with a waiting line of women 😍 😍😍😍 all offering gold rings at the next beach ? Now , seriously ? I don't think you'd all want him to suffer like that would ya ?

I must point out that this is the only spot on the island the D2 does this.. I've used it around a huge telecommunications tower which drove the Nox crazy but not the D2.. Maybe the hostel's got an extra large WIFI transmitter to beam down to their private beach? It's weird that it only happens here but I know for sure that when their WIFI is turned off both the Nox and D2 behave themselves..

Gotta say I second Chase's comments on the Deus 2, I don't know if the D1 had such EMI mitigation, but I've never really had a problem with EMI unless I was right over buried power (I'd probably not want to dig so that's a good thing), or directly under power lines. Everywhere else I've been able to shut it out almost completely and can find the D2 wide open. One day I found that Rattlehead's Silver Slayer program dealt well with harmonics, I was right under some really noisy power lines, switched to his program on a whim, and wham - gone. Really freaked me out. I haven't used anywhere near as many detectors as y'all have, but I bless the fact that I bought a Deus 2 just about every time I'm out. Not saying you need one or anything 😏 🤣 I love my Equinox 600, I can usually bypass most EMI with single frequency but the D2 is a whole 'nother thing. 🙂

I have a feeling that it's more than just WiFi that is a problem. The airwaves are more congested than a Friday rush hour in LA and getting more congested by the day. As our exploding populations spend more and more of their lives on their wireless devices the demand for bandwidth rises exponentially and Wifi, Cellular, Radio, Microwave and other wireless device manufaturers increasingly battle for more bandwidth usage and this is just the private commercial sector. We live in a soup of man-made EMI transmissions and that soup is thickening to a paste. So enjoy what usage we can get with the newest detectors while we can. At some point we may have to go back to closed system hard-wired detectors with massive shielding just to find an irradiated zinc penny laying on the surface of the ground in our electro-magnetic shielded hazmat detecting suits. Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. 😏

May 29 2002 The morning warmed up quickly and I think it was a hot day for mining. We got 1.3 ounces of gold from yesterday’s work. We headed up to the trench around 9:00 AM. Jacob was saying that this might be the start of the heat but it was a bit early in the season. We will find out that come June things start to get more difficult according to him. If we could just get our permits it wouldn’t be bad for us but as of now there is still no word. We wait as usual. For now, we dig and work the claim by hand just like the old crew did. I sort of take it as a challenge. Can modern man, pampered by equipment to do his work, compete with the old timers who worked so hard to get their gold? I suppose we will find out if our permits don’t come soon. By noon I felt exhausted and was starting to feel the dry, 90 degree day sap my strength. I drank water like crazy to keep up with the fluids draining out of me. None of us had much of an appetite for lunch but we ate a little and hurried back to work. I think stopping was the worst thing to do as it was hard to get back into a rhythm for digging. We stayed with it until nearly 8:00 PM. Even Jacob had got down in the pit with us for a spell. We ended with 15 yards of gravel being washed. The heat had definitely taken its toll on us today. TO BE CONTINUED ..................

Took me 11 years hunting a small grassy resting spot from the 1870’s to find my first and only gold nugget 5.1 gram with the Deus2 at 6-7 inches deep. The closest mines are in Coarsegold California.

Abandoned cabin made entirely of dinosaur bones, near the site which would become the first place to really bring fossils into the public mainstream in the 1800's. It has fallen into disrepair and it appears someone is digging it up and trying to move it somewhere else now. Looks like they might have tried and failed and now its sorta sitting there semi-askew with a big hole under it. A lot of Wyoming is semi abandoned relics of the past. This is an old abandoned uranium mining company town, the whole town was for sale for $200k when I was a kid. By the 90's it was a true modern ghost town, empty of people but still with paved streets/sidewalks, a big school, restaurants/bars, post office, houses, stores, etc. A lot of people my age are in Wyoming because our dads originally came to work at these now abandoned sorts of places, old mining and oil towns. Some people are back there now. An artist bought the old gas station to live in, he sells pottery and apparently now also soup.

Good thread, yes often the diggings areas are not the best to look at, but the scenery on the way can be great.

Early spring out in the Colorado Desert, CA. Out looking in the sand for opalite, and nearby for jasper, agate and petrified fossil and wood pebbles left behind by the Colorado river in its ancient exposed channels. Some of our goldfields are in places that generally look like this in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree, Randsburg, and Barstow, CA.

🤣 I never heard that term before but it's fairly self-explanatory if you conjure up a mental image, as well as from context. (I did look it up anyway.) It's applicable here for more than just (some of) the X-Terra Pro purchase justification threads. Except from reading (and interpreting) the Codan periodic investor reports, we get at best indirect, sparse evidence as to who is buying what and how that compares to the past. For example, was the Manticore release much different (quantitatively and temporally) than the Equinox's five years ago? Were the Equinox's accessory coils released any sooner then than they seem to be (as still promised) for the Manticore today? Are we any smarter / better informed when we post our opinions, speculations, and hypotheses now than 5 years ago?? 🤔

In fact, if you think about seriously starting a dredging operation, the minimum power is at least 5 horsepower.Although sand is easily sucked up, just the stones in the middle and any heavier material, remain on the search bed otherwise. I got decent results with a 6.5 horsepower and an inexpensive motor pump, but when I think about the bulky pipes,the weight of transport and the cost...I wouldn't do it again. You'll soon forget the suction and tend to the boost, maybe spend on a dpv for some ground leveling. Be cautios (laws involved⚠️)

i purchased My X Pointer Max from Andy and Charlene Sabisch I had Charlene to verify what I was indeed going to receive was the new 2023 model which plainly states on the box the X Pointer Max comes in, (Magic Holster), you can also tell by the Holster that comes with the Pointer has a small sown on cloth tab that reads Magic Holster, the first X Pointer Max has the same exact holster but the small tab is not present on the Holster and it does not state on the box either, other than what I have stated there is no way of telling the difference, the older version looks identical to the new version you can tell if the pointer you receive is the new version by taking a small magnet and putting the magnet against the main housing, on either side of the power and settings buttons of the X Pointer max, if you do as I stated and its a new version X Pointer Max it will put the pointer in stand by the older version X Pointer max will not do this

I was detecting in a yard where the house was built in 1890 late last week with the Deus 2 and I found a mix of modern and semi old items, but nothing from when the house was new. I think the coolest find of the day was a modern Memorial cent that was struck about 90% off center:

I've been telling people that ask me what detector they should start with, and even though I've never used one I recommend the Legend over the base model of another detector. 👍 I wouldn't say that is "not much", and I really like the photo of your Predator hand digger. 🙂

I just went out in my backyard and confirmed this. I have 3 high power lines running parallel to the back of my yard. I set up a custom program that notched out everything below silver/copper. In no disc, ground disc, or ferrous disc mode, the detector was noisy with a jumpy ID. I switched to that custom mode which notched out everything below copper/silver, and the EMI noise was gone.

Some USB cables are charge only and only have 2 wires, they don't have the -D and +D data wires just the VCC and ground. Try another cable.

APTX-LL Headphones, Earbuds, and Receiver/Transmitters that work with APTX-LL compatible detectors (ML Vanquish; ML Nox 600/800; Nokta Legend). Note that the Receiver/Transmitters can be plugged into the headphone jacks of many detectors that lack APTX-LL transmitters (including the new ML Xterra Pro; Nox 700/900 and Manticore detectors that use Bluetooth LE with no third party wireless headphones available) so you can use these BT APTX-LL headphones and earbuds with them. Earbuds (note that "true wireless" APTX-LL earbuds and APTX-LL wireless bone conduction phones appear to be unobtanium right now): Legacy Buds style slightly Aukey B80 Phones are available here: https://www.ebay.com/p/12040445991 These are expensive but high quality: https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Aurvana-Trio-Wireless-Noise-Isolating/dp/B0868G7Q4P/ These are reasonably priced and have good audio, I have the silver ones but only green are still available for purchase though they are currently out of stock: https://www.amazon.com/Glazata-Bluetooth-Headphones-Neckbands-Earphones/dp/B08JTVC1JH/ Finally, in budget category there is the following - I have not actually verified that these will pair up in APTX-LL mode with the Nox 800 but they should work based on the explicit APTX-LL specifications listed. I also have no idea on actual sound quality. But at $20 plus a 40% off coupon. It's hard to go wrong with these (pick up a second pair for backup) if they pair up in LL mode AND have half way decent fidelity. https://www.amazon.com/HomeSpot-Bluetooth-Headphones-Qualcomm®-Compatible/dp/B09P4WQRH6?ref_=ast_sto_dp My personal favorite are the following - but they are more bulky because they have a loudspeaker to create a personal sound space near you head without the earbuds, but you can also shift to earbud mode if desired. They have AMAZING audio quality and stereo separation in both loudspeaker mode and bud mode. Note that they are not water resistant and need to be protected from direct water impingement. But that's the beauty of wireless, if its raining, you can hide these under your rain gear easily and they will still work well. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y56W9XQ Headphones: Paww Dual Sound 2 earbuds. They are APTX-LL and do pair with the Equinox 800 and 600. They are getting hard to find but here's a used set on Ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/295567843524 Creative Jam V2's on the Ear Phones - Best Deal for Headphones: New: https://a.co/d/dK8G46h $40 "Renewed" (for half price): https://a.co/d/7AM6o0F $20 Avantree: https://a.co/d/gE1bW4a $130 https://a.co/d/7AM6o0F $90 https://a.co/d/3yfYuvv $70 Ankbit/Lavales (appear to be clones): https://a.co/d/09TWNEd $99 https://a.co/d/4m1KdW2 $99 August: https://a.co/d/29pcgJl $57 MEE: https://a.co/d/feCwWVn $98 Here are some APTX-LL receiver/transmitters: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B84NDTZB/ https://www.amazon.com/YMOO-Bluetooth-Transmitter-Simultaneously-Headphones/dp/B0BBZZXQTL/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B4W40VC/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XLTPTSD/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08G8Q7NXZ/ HTH

Much nicer than calling it Legend II and selling it to people as an entirely new machine 🙂

As soon as this crappy weather stops and finally starts getting warm to the point we can get up to and work our claims, then I can start pulling out some serious gold.

Not sure we're we going to end up. We did make it into Nevada today but it took some doing. Six and half hour trip took ten hours. Out flow air pipe to the intercooler blew apart climbing over the Owehyes mtn. Wired it together and head back towards Nampa. No luck at Napa auto. All the way back to a Ford dealer. They had one. Now camped on a old side road. Gold tomorrow?

Beautiful diversity in everyone's photos. Mine are Idaho and Nevada. Must be some sort of pin pointer. Just dig right under it and to find...

Wow Great shots from some special spots! Heres a few from the last couple years poking around the western states of USA.. AZ AZ Yuba River CA Harts Pass, WA Greaterville, AZ Gold Basin AZ All I want to do is pack up the truck and keep goin.......

Camping on the gold fields at Tibooburra Somehow the search for yellow was a secondary pursuit.

Cant go past my favourite road sign in Western Australia.