Chase Goldman

Thanks, Joe. Yep 9 or 10 seems ideal in the water. I like Manticore's low profile 9", even if I am just swingling in wash.

even better

Gary is now brand independent and reviews various machines and teaches how to navigate and set them up and dispenses generic detecting skill school advice instead of tying it solely to XP devices.

Still confused, none of those coil sizes he mentioned match Manti and he also said "...with the 8 may as well use a Manticore or excal" I think he was referring to something other than the GM2K, Manti, or Excal. Possibly some sort of beach going PI.

Especially if the coils are neutrally buoyant and not corks.

Confused. The stock and only available (so far) coil on the GM2000 is 5" round not 12.5".

It does look like a really functional harness. Shame it needs a harness in the first place. But I guess you can't make coils out of balsa wood and sewing thread. I know this beast needs more power, but wish they could have leveraged some of the latest innovations in battery tech to lighten things up all around, that back end looks beefier than necessary. Perhaps it doesn't matter with that coil design, though, as you have to have something to counterbalance.

FWIW - If you want to really see ID numbers on D2 it has a big number setting option that enables TIDs to pop up and take up the full screen when a target is acquired. It lingers for awhile after the hit. D2 IDs are generally pretty stable.

I'm talking wading out knee deep or deeper. The coil is waterproof, I believe. The head unit is not. If it runs stable, detecting in the surf wash should be fine. Which is where it seems you spend a lot of time if the surf is rough.

Correct.

Not sure whether or not Gold Seeker realized it was a beach test. But it is an interesting question regardless. Part of the reason chains are even harder to hit at a wet salt beach is because beach mode on Nox, Manticore, and other "post-Nox" simultaneous multi-frequency (SMF) detectors is that they use their SMF capability to cancel salt and the frequency profile used is less sensitive to salt. That naturally weakens their response to chains and other micro-gold jewelry targets as a result and also explains why gold sensitive SMF profiles associated with the Gold modes on Nox, Manticore, Deus, Legend etc are unstable on wet salt sand or in salt water. It would be interesting to see if GM2K operated in conductive ground mode could cancel salt (wet saturated salt sand), be stable (or more stable than Nox/Manticore in gold mode), yet still be sensitive to small gold like a salt water Pulse Induction machine. Obviously, you can't take it in the water, but it would be eye opening, nonetheless.

Well you were doing the tests at the beach - so...I just thought I would ask. Otherwise, yeah, the GM2K should hit that chain just fine.

Can you even run a GM 2000 stable on wet salt sand without reducing sens? You can’t run a Manticore or Nox in gold mode that way. Maybe Minelab’s GM 2000 conductive soil setting would allow it?

Multiprocessing does not automatically mean stereo. You can control the stereo imaging from 2ch mono to wide stereo separation using the channel pan bar slider. There are also stereo FX chorus settings but those are not normally invoked for the default Multiprocessing menus. I believe this is all set up so you can take advantage of Multprocessing to a certain extent even with mono headphones once 4.1 is released. I am pretty sure 4.1 won’t be released without some public run time to reveal any further bugs or UI enhancements so they can be addressed in 4.1. Regaring the WSA-ST phones/puck, it is pretty much the same as the WSA puck except it has three audio out pin/contacts to accommodate the 3-wire stereo backphones. It has no audio out jack. However, just like with the original WSA-II’s you can purchase a clip-on headphone jack adapter, but for the WSA-ST the adapter jack is wired in stereo.

There is a big semantic difference between profit margin or EBITDA "increased to" and "increased by". You keep using the term "increased to" which implies the net profit margin/EBITDA as a percentage of total revenue. But what you are describing is the Year-to-Year percentage by which profit margin/EBITDA increased by in whole dollars. YtY EBITDA increased by 45% from $83.3M to $120.5M (i.e., (120.5-83.3)/83.3 = 45%). The profit margin/EBITDA described as a percentage of total revenue (which is what people typically think about when talking about profit) increased to $120.5M/$393.5M or 31% of total 2025 revenue from $83.3/$305.6M or 27% of total 2024 revenue. Isn't math fun?