Skull diver

You're damn right

I'm happy reading your words on this subject. Not having mine here cause I want a 9" not available and with a few hours with the one I tested, I was wondering what will be possible to squeeze from it with all the filters... It seems will be an easy job indeed, looking only for stability or...An acceptable noise.

I'm waiting to push it to the extreme trying to use beach sens Instead... Even if the salt sensitivity filter will be a forced option, I want an higher frequency at work downthere. Signals are scarce now in my area cause of a lot of competition around. I'm lucky to find some gold only cause I always check for seabed conditions, otherwise there's always some stranger at work in the weekend. Using the Ctx with no filters at all and detuning it, I'm obtaining some success...Which is exactly where the D2 machine needs to be worked on. The less falsing I'll have when on the seabed with high sensitivity and with 40kHz, the better..We'll see. As for now, there's no trace of a shipment tracking. March can be the true arrival time for my 9" baby.

Must be another high frequency based tuning... You might want to check without to modify anything, all the values starting from reactivity, notches, volumes etc... Initially when I was testing the unit, I thought it was bad to lose all settings as soon as the instrument was turned off, but to find all like it was before to touch things is actually a relief😂. Save a program only when it works and You're satisfied with proof in Your hands.

How I solved😁

I found this content really useful...Especially If someone likes to dive with the machine and wants a short setup like me.......

Can I bet You're planning to raise the 2021 threshold with 20 to 30 more pieces?😂

Loved the diplomacy of the message. In these days, waiting for the unit arrival, we all need to hope and listen to other's people reviews. Thanks for this content.

Ok...I'm editing myself what I stated and I want to add something on it... The only way to explain this filter in my mind is this: considering low frequency, susceptible to emi and high frequency susceptible to ground, the salt sensitivity matches a lower frequency bias on 9 and an higher frequency bias on 1... A crossed filter... Feel free to throw rocks on me, but I swear this is the only reasonable way I have to figure it out.😂

Unluckily I think everyone will do at his own expense a personal test and related conclusions. Too much variables, starting from ground, settings, volumes, tones and kind of tones...The list is longer, You know what I mean. I also remember on the Nox, as well on other machines, that discrimination under the 0 level can help in some occasions. Salt sensitivity still is a doubt filter, considering that days ago someone said the manual reports slightly less foil/gold/low conductors detection with higher level at 9... I think the opposite thing and I might be wrong. (I still have the manual, not the machine) F..K😑

I'm scared even more, cause I still wait for mine and now I can't wait to check. By the way I tested an 11" unit and worked extremely well in my 4 hours with it...I loved it even if I'm not a wetsand guy.

You're damn right Steve...And I fallen again like a child. Just curious to personally check the silence on the seabed 😂

As for my experience on the Ctx, broken stuff can appear on the screen with a slightly higher ferrous ID.The use of an high discrimination can be a problem in that case. Still doesn't justify the poor detection depth🥲

I'd rather think to a faulty coil too🤔.. I'm subscribed to a channel already appeared here and the 9" is killing anything under the path...Gold too.

Just be patient.... This is only the result of a strong and long wave's/wind direction towards the shore in a front position. You might expect to be more productive on the wetsand among high and low tide marks in these days, instead being underwater on the desert... Despite the impression of a firm seabed, usually You're in presence of almost 50cm more of sand, with weeds buried in between, with aluminium to enjoy until the death. Let it to relax back down and soon the rocks will appear.

I suppose you've found where to camp for the next few months😂

During a Nox test years ago, I've been on a rare place where wet sand was almost gone at all and a reddish clay under the coil was balancing at 8 in manual. So You can expect no numbers at all and barely alternating noise.As Midalake said, to not confuse with emi.

I know the feeling...Can You believe I already prepaid my 9" unit and don't know when it will be in my hands? I think the D2 is available near You especially cause of the prospectors major number against a lower beach crowd... Here, with gold dust as the best size in the northern area, exactly the opposite thing😑

I can't say one word in comparison with D1, cause after a CZ21, and an Excal, 9 years ago I bought a Ctx due to my salty life.To buy again another Excal, a Tdi BH and a D.Pro underwater... On the D2 I tested, the mono program was my greatest curiosity and partially I can say this: it makes no sense to use mono frequency on the beach, unless You want to try a check for a ground reaction/limit on every single KHz and filters that can be added. The price is high, losing not only the ID stability but gaining enough noise to prefer multi in few minutes. On the other hand, there's the raw power hiding below this "special key" useful if You're a lone wolf, without competition around, plenty of time to double/triple check for elusive signals. Inland, especially in high EMI locations, there's obviously the advantage to find the sweetspot for less noise, but still paying a useless screen factor. It's a dig it all mode... My 2 cents.

Waiting for a storm and a change in the seabed, a few days ago I went scouting along the coast that I reach more easily. Like me, far too many locals have abused the place and signals have become rare. Even if they came from the wrong direction, the waves still made a fair leveling, barely visible from the shore. I was not very inspired by what I saw, but I was still willing to use new settings and test the behavior of the detector. In almost two hours of session, despite having found a good balance with the instrument, I had no reference points on the ground for an ideal area to start from. On the verge of leaving the area, already satisfied for the test but without decent targets , one last signal caught my attention .... and this is the result ... Happy hunting everyone. https://youtu.be/IH1ZcQjzE70

I suppose must be the clip over the remote to keep the antenna's cable firm on it. Another one is used to keep the other side on the coil.

B.c. headphones is the only thing You need to buy. In the package there's the antenna's cable with clips ready to use. I was also waiting for the RC version cause I don't need wireless headphones, but apparently now only the full is available. I'm yet late cause of the 9" coil I want. A few 11" units are already running around Italy.

I'm editing my statement cause actually something is different now...Maybe the user manual is to be corrected... The salt sensitivity level at 9 is the higher and at 1 the minimum... So going down on this value, the machine will react towards the sability on the 1 and to falsing to the 9...

It seems You're alone doing the cleaning there... I won't think high discrimination can avoid to dig such pieces. You're maybe in a virgin land..What a dream.

Jeez...You're confirming my fear for another straight shaft project I was expecting to be involved with...😑