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I think the guy on the left is “American Detection.” He puts out videos on First Texas Products. The guy in the back is “RAM Detecting.” He swings a Time Ranger Pro. That’s what it looks like the way the coil connects, except there’s a rag or something hanging off the other side. The guy on the right is “Finding Alabama.” F75. You can even see the knob on top. The new coils have a fatter connector which makes it look different.

Kind of funny but it’s just a bad picture. The one in the back is probably a Time Ranger Pro. The one on the right is probably an F75. Because they do YouTube, they probably have additional audio devices plugged in giving a different silhouette.

Personally, I think the coil-lockout trend is a mistake. You can’t move up or down because that’s a whole new set of coils. The coil supply lags the release. Coil compatibility puts a big lock on many segments. Encourage third-party manufacturers because that increases your bandwidth. I’m taking a step backwards because the coils I want to test aren’t there. I can’t try a different model variation if I have to buy a new set of coils. If the coils I think I need to use do the job, then goodbye to Minelab, Nokta and XP.

I think it was the Legend. They could kind of hang around below the Nox and Deus without doing anything. Nokta took that space. Now they’ve filled every nook and cranny.

Anybody interested, make them an offer. Might even go less.

FirstTexasProducts on ebay. 5 and 11 coil. Got an offer and took it. I did it because of coil options.

“Yond Nokta has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous”

A fairly newcomer amongst experts, how’s that going to turn out? Unless you’re 78 years old, then you might favor analyzation over digging. Sound analysis is used to tell when bearings need to be replaced. When they couldn’t find a vein in my arm, they brought in a sound machine with a display and found it. None of that translates into metal detecting but may warrant further investigation. Like I say, all I’m trying to do is make some noise holping for further experimentation. But I doubt the money is there. Most of the sales go to low-end machines. Medical and industrial use is very expensive.

True, but some does translate to the field. Not identical, mass density. Put a gold ring in an aluminum cap and another above. Put steel caps above and below. Test with and without the ring. You can easily tell there’s a small dense target in there. ID won’t be good. How well that translates to field is another story.

> they do a very poor job at distinguishing aluminum trash from gold Put a gold ring and a tab down. Swing over and over both. Easy to tell the difference. The density of the target is in the sound. But can you hold the tone difference in your head and pick it out of all the noise in the lower band? Electronics isn’t going much further. Don’t have a Manti, but apparently you can do more with signal analysis. Medical and industry use sound analysis, but we ignore? I tutted this horn long enough. Basically, just trying to make some noise hopping someone in the MD business would at least do some experimentation. First guy wins the prize. I’m a real old timer. I do a massive amount of sound experimentation because I don’t want to dig unless I am sure there’s a strong possibility.

This is an Amazon only detector. If you look up “metal detector” on Amazon, it’s mostly Chinese brands. Bounty Hunter TK4 holding strong. ACE 300 a little ways down. Interestingly, having “13” as the lead is good for another hundred bucks. The MINELAB X-TERRA VOYAGER is doing well. It worked for Minelab, Nokta trying to move up that list. Hundreds of units a month, thousand if you get to the top. Everybody wondering what First Texas is doing, they’re shoving 1,000 Tracker 4s out the door every month. What, me worry?

Electronics has gone about as far as it can. Signal analysis used to some extent. Sound wave analysis, used in medical and industry, ignored. Might be worth at least a little look. I could be all wrong, but it’s used to tell the life of a bearing. I think it has strong possibilities.

Got to love a company that keeps innovating. They’re taking on all comers, including China. Obviously targeted for Amazon.

It’s been used in the medical field for a long time. If you swing over a tab and a gold ring, you can clearly hear the difference. So, there’s density and target size information in the tone. Sound analysis is being used all over the place except where all we have is sound and an ID that may get pulled one way or the other. Basically, we have a PalmPilot now. Need to move forward.

The current state of the art is replacing knobs with a computer version. If sound is the most important thing, how come my detector doesn’t display a full screen color analysis of the sound? A few decades behind the times?