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You didn't need a special adapter to make the headphones work or were those headphones the ones that came with the 600? I'm going to be getting some that work with the WM08 soon. Mitchel PS I hang my processing stuff off the back of a baseball cap without attachments.

What has been the experience here with noise cancelling phones? I had some hardwire ones I loved. I bought them originally for the plane and they had a battery power but I used them with great success on my GPX and SE Pro. Mitchel

Norm, Did you post somewhere else the reason for having it repaired? Was it dropped or something? Mitchel

dwg, This is a challenging site. It takes a lot of experience to tame a sensitive machine down. Steve suggested that people new to the Nox not take it out for a stroll in a nail bed. There is good reason for this but one of the reasons is to be able to hear the good sounds and control the coil around all the junk. It is there. Have you seen Steve's last couple of posts? He has 'notched out' or rejected everything in the low range. He has been using the Nox the longest on this forum by far so we should emulate his settings in trash. An observation I have is if you are looking for 'smooth and stable' in an area like where you were hunting you will have to go a few hundred feet away from the trash and set yourself up. Now return to the scene of the crime and find those noisy good targets. Mitchel

As much as I liked these headphones in the beginning I have used them so much now that I have the 'peeling effect' with these also. What is the 'peeling effect?' It is when you are ready to take your headphones off and the pain of doing it makes you want to keep them on. You feel like you are peeling them off. Ouch! What can be worse is when you feel them start to hurt in the middle of a session and you begin to adjust them on your head. Nothing will make them comfortable again for long. I'll be searching for a larger, over the ear backup or replacement before I would buy another pair of these. Mitchel

School, Well done. At first I thought you were describing a portion of a beach as a cellar hole and I had never heard that term. I found gold within my first couple of hunts at the beach also. It gets better if you have targets. Well done. Mitchel

Wow! I am just about opposite you. Relic hunting has to have the most trash of all metal detecting. Beach trash can be seen with a CTX and you don't dig it. Most trash is seen with a Nox and you dig some of it. The two main culprits are caps and bobby pins. You get some lead and other stuff but you also get the good stuff. The best detectorists I know at the beach use PIs and they dig everything wet and dry but they know where to go and they would have it no other way because they go DEEP. Mitchel

Nice band! Mitchel

The only sighting of a 6” coil I am aware of is this Facebook video with a peek at the new 6” coil That equals 'nada tester' to me so we are now parsing slang. Still

In a previous thread Steve said: Posted Saturday at 07:09 PM “Ha, ha, never hurts to fish for information Mitchel! The only sighting of a 6” coil I am aware of is this Facebook video with a peek at the new 6” coil near the end...“

Well done sir Walker!

Steve has said 'nada' just a few days ago but things change ...

Thanks. What is the difference between that and the bottle caps?

I can't get this video to play properly. Can someone explain what he does?

I have had many hunts where I get the coil wet but I have not submerged the detector. I haven't hunted the trough at the California beaches. Our waves lately are not moving objects like they have in past years. When I first got my Nox I experimented with the recovery speed. One night when I was new with it I found good objects by making the sounds longer with lower recovery speed. Now I have 'caught up' a bit to the machine and can hear targets better at higher recovery speeds. I'll vary my pattern when water walking to zig zag to look for patches. Some can be parallel to the beach and the best ones are just large areas with objects high and low. Sometimes I'll look at the black sand layer and walk it and other times I'll cross it to find my first couple of objects. Other times I just go to a certain part of the beach that produces and just grid. Settings sometimes don't matter. I can't find what is not there. Mitchel

Very good finds in any language! You show and we enjoy. Thank you. Mitchel

Flak, There are some beaches in Southern California that are very wide and sandy. They have filled in over the last hundred years rather than disappear as some say. In these areas I have started using the field mode and really like it. The day before this hunt when I was using it I found a 1953 'wheat at the beach!' I had heard so many others use it and I had done some testing in a park and it works. I haven't used it on the waterline much as I do use the beach modes there. Mitchel

I go to a local beach this afternoon and I head straight away for my normal pattern which is the waterline. This is what I am familiar with as it is new territory on a receding tide. That was the plan and I stuck with it in one direction of about 2 miles. At the end of that walk I had about 3 cents! Nothing, nada at the top or bottom of the beach slope. I'm using beach 1 just about default. Time to switch the pattern. Too many people on the blanket line so it is time to split the difference between blanket and parking lot. Finally a few targets. Coins here and there and I just plod along in the soft sand which I dislike. The wind is picking up and I'm about half way back to my starting spot and I see another detectorist out in front of some houses. He could be on the wet also but today is a day to stay dry. A few hundred yards further I come about a culvert which is directing the wind. One side the sand is holding and the other it is blowing away. That is when I saw my first crumb. I was swinging and had gotten a couple of coins and then I looked down and saw a dime and 2 pennies with all the sand blown away from them! Wow ... no one has been here recently. I continue on in field 1 in this little area and I hear another target (18-19). I can see the edge of a coin, no ... I know what that is because I've found them before in the surf. It is a bus token. I reach down and pick it up without using a scoop. This one is in excellent shape. Now it is time to grid the 20x40 ft area. In less than 3 minutes I get a 9 and I look at my coil and I see the edge of a ring. I see the portion of the cross. I wish now that I had a camera to take a picture as I first saw it. I don't so I quickly grab it. It's 4.5g and feels good. I finish gridding the area and work another trashy area nearby. I pull out a few coins from the muck and I'm on my way back. These coins, token and ring could have been found with ANY detector but I was swinging an 800. It 'challenged' me to find that trashy spot and use it and instead I went near and found a spot I might not have gone to with my CTX. Coincidence? Luck? I found some clues and acted upon them. Sometimes the detector doesn't matter. Mitchel

Doc and Rob are experts on all things booster. I'd contact them. I don't think Bill sells them. Mitchel

I put both the booster and the WM12 on the back of my baseball cap. It keeps both units the greatest distance from the coil. I can't remain hardwired to a detector any more. The booster allows for the 7000 audio enhancements to be on lower power and then you are amplifying a clear signal. I used the 7000 without a booster for a long time and even had the booster for many months and didn't attach it. I wish I would have used it from the beginning. When you read JP's use of detectors and adjustments he is always using one. It is for good reason. Mitchel

There have been updates provided to my CTX and 7000 by ML and many search programs can be downloaded for the CTX. Mitchel

I have an 8" diameter beach scoop. I get about half way down on a normal dig. I use it with my left hand and left foot while I swing with my right hand. When I see all the arrows in the depth indication then I know I'll have to take a couple of scoops and it will still be in the hole. It is 'relatively' accurate for all the coins I dig at the beach. Once understood it is consistent on coin objects and inaccurate on especially small targets. Mitchel

I am waiting for the larger coil also. I feel like CTX/17 is the only setup that can compete with the standard 800 right now. It has coverage and a depth advantage over a normal CTX that made me take off that coil and not put it back on. One thing I dislike about all these coils has been the ears. They have broken off and I've had to purchase aftermarket fixes. Mitchel

Cal, nice hunt as has been said. I'm from down Jacksonville way so I can understand your videos pretty good too. One thing I have to ask about is that name, Cobra ... how did you get that? Mitchel

I would like the answer also ... and $50+ from the park is darn good. Mitchel