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Yes, The Magnetic Ground control should be set to accept. If set in reject>>> this will seriously affect detection of small gold.

Law of averages says. no. Hearing fine points between iron wrap-around and deep faint targets, multiple close targets the headphone will win hands down over time. It will not even be close.

Never. Also, would NEVER even consider it. No one hunting a beach without headphones will EVER beat someone with headphones.

Not only in the water but the wet sand too. Unless your beaches are snow white you should be in those beach modes. Reactivity almost has zero effect on depth up to 3 [never used much past that] But one really needs to watch their swing speed with a higher reactivity and smaller coil. Salt Sensitivity, kind of Meh. Run that 7-9 and have no worries. Be more concerned about Black Sand accept/reject. I would always run a D2 at the beach with Black Sand Accept. In the end>>>>Only use diving if you have to [it is not the greatest on gold] and control everything else with sensitivity. After many years on this machine with moving salt water I would say if you are hunting with a 90 sensitivity and above don't worry too much.

I could not agree more!! These are all starting points and then further discussion, and site-specific issues are important. It was slightly painful to let my D2 go but in the end, it was not the right machine for my location. Just a little sad it took me over two years to figure that out. 🙄. Still love my Equinox on that moderate Black sand beach. This season I will be comparing the 800 to 900. Not sure I will see much difference. If all works well might have a surprise for all the listeners too. 😎 HH

Nice Finds That is how Mexican coins are dispersed from banks. The small denominations are taped in groups of 5.

My love/hate relationship is over. I sold just my D2. After a few years of back and forth, it just does not handle my moderate Black sand environment like the Equinox 800 does. There were almost no days where I could beat the Equinox on targets found, meaning over weeks, months and years of hunting my daily targets finds were much less in items, and I saw no advantage to smaller items. Eom.

Wow, never had a piece of gold come in that high.

That is one heck of a haul. Nice work!

VERY>>>>>NICE! What did that chunk TDI at???

Nice finds!!!

I did watch your video and several others; they all have some merit. Even in your test though, [which had bad EMI] When the coil position was completed there was very little sound-off. Now someone in scuba could hunt with a pretty flat coil, but I am guessing like most beach users they have their stuff locked down pretty tight for no coil movement. I really wonder how much could be coil wire? Would be nice to see a few tests with fiberglass. In fact, I have one and might try myself. right now I am only sporting the Equinox, my D2 is sold.

Also.....How are you taking care of all that coil wire??? Do you have it taped TIGHT straight away, and all the wraps near the pod???? Which would be preferred.