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  1. The GPZ is like fine wine, it's only improved with age. ? it's disappointing they're competing with themselves. All it does is pushes up the price, inhibits development, slows product releases and restricts products as they don't need to compete. Competition supercharges development. They're losing their crown with VLF's quickly if it's not gone already, now competition needs to come into the gold detector market the same way, I'm probably dreaming but it'd be beneficial for everybody but them. ZVT is at the infancy, there would have to be so much more they can do with it. PI, not so much.
  2. I'm sure with time I'll come around a bit, I do like it, it's just not going to take the crown as easily for me as it has for some others, and I doubt it ever will as I've pointed out I hunt in quite bad EMI areas, why use a DD on the 6000 when I can use my normal coils on my 7000 and not be troubled by the EMI and retain my full performance, there are plenty of reasons I prefer the 7000. Really looking forward to some more coils for it though, one less thing to worry about failing too with the number of faulty stock coils a little aftermarket will give a bit more assurance there plus I like a few of the sizes available from the aftermarket guys over the 11" round. What it does do is point out people have different needs in different places and as we always say, no one detector does it all. if I lived in the USA I'd likely think it's the right choice for me though, just look at Steve's gold and the gold some others have posted, beautiful stuff and obviously some of that stuff is the GPZ's weak spot. Our water worn little lumps are no trouble for the GPZ, although it appears quite a few are trouble for the previous GPX 5000/4500. I think everyone should just be happy with their own choices, and they likely have reasons for them and enjoy whatever detector they're using. Steve was a straight shooter on the 6000 from the start and for that I'm very appreciative, I just didn't like missing out but I'll give my 6000 plenty of use, it's so light it can tag along in my backpack especially with a smaller coil on it. We all like certain detectors for certain reasons, not all of our reasons are the same.
  3. The only association with King I have with it is the Burger King Whopper! ? Just kidding, it's a decent detector but not promoted to King in my kingdom yet even as someone that chases the smaller gold which it's known as being so good for, we'll see how it goes with time, more use and some aftermarket coils! Ps, that ugly whopper may contain cabbage instead of lettuce if you're in Australia ?
  4. So it's the ground causing it and not the nugget? I had it happen once with the GPZ and put a video on here at the time showing it but I'd already thrown the nugget in the collection by the time I did the post and had no idea which one it was so I wasn't able to replicate it again. I never tested the nugget once out of the hole so I didn't know what caused it, I assumed something odd with the nugget not the ground.
  5. You should video and put on YouTube that nugget going over the coil in an air test at various depths, it'll be interesting to see what happens. Unfortunately once you got it out of the soil it never went near the coil, it's a very unusual thing to happen with the inverted signal.
  6. It's very easy for me to compare depth on deep targets, we have a lot of deep coins around here and I can assure you in my soil the 10x5" is nowhere near as deep as the 11" coil, but I wouldn't expect it to be, that'd be expecting miracles. The 11" maintains ID's to a much greater depth. A guy in NZ at the moment is trying to sell his Coiltek 15' coil for half retail price and only a few months old, it's oh so temping to buy it as I do mostly only hunt deeper targets but I've never seen a good review on it other than those done by Coiltek associates. A friend took about 8 months to sell his 14x9" Nox coil and had to take under half what he paid for it to sell it. The other two sizes are the lemon's, the 10x5" is a great little coil.
  7. I've taken a bit of a renewed liking the to my GPX 5000 at the moment, it's threshold is music to my ears after listening to the death metal rock concert the GPX 6000 produces and now it's winter the beaches are devoid of people and prime for the picking. Our beaches don't have all that much junk other than the targets like bottle tops and pull tabs that I'd be digging anyway with a VLF if I was chasing rings so using a PI on the beach here isn't such a bad idea for the superior depth and beaches being easy digging, I've walked over 200 meters up and down a beach a few times in the second biggest city in the South Island and the spot was only a few km's from the city center and not hit one target at all, the beaches are just not covered in trash like some places so a GPX is a good choice of detector. it's about the only reason I have a small regret of getting rid of my QED, it was a decent light weight beach PI that could use GPX coils. This is why this Detech Concentric seems worth the investment, it's only one decent not even good ring find to pay for itself. We also have a lot of black sand beaches and more mineralisation on the beaches than we do on land in most cases even the beaches around here without going to the west coast's near pure black sand beaches are more tricky to deal with for a detector than the gold areas nearby so using the GPX makes a lot of sense. This 18" Detech is much cheaper to buy from Bulgaria which is cool, even though it's got a long ride to get here it's significantly cheaper and being so light for it's size should make a decent beach coil.
  8. We had a couple of acres in Brisbane / Australia and all the houses surrounding us also had a few acres of land, we also had a big reserve bushland area across the road at the front and often had kangaroo's in our backyard usually after 4pm they would show up. One thing we always did is made sure our little dog was inside as he was a little Maltese terrier and felt the need to act tough and chase them around, the big red ones were a bit more bold and would try attack him so once we learnt that we had to keep him locked inside whenever they were around, we were well fenced but that means nothing they hop right on over even a 6 foot fence. The little dog turned into a bit of a nightmare there as he was always chasing down wildlife, had a few close encounters with snakes too with once him carrying one inside that he caught and eventually it was a spider that bit him that sent him to doggy hospital for 9 days. He ended up losing his dog door and we had to control his outdoor movements, I guess its what inspired getting rid of that house, as I said everything in Australia wants to kill you!
  9. I'd say history was the reason, how many people wanted to use the DD on the older GPX series? I just went straight to aftermarket mono's with my GPX. I'd ordered the Coiltek 10x5" Joey before my GPX even arrived ? The DD's vastly improve the 6000's EMI handling though, and the 14" DD was a real surprise with how sensitive it is on the small gold. A bit of market research will show the manufacturers DD's would be in high demand for the 6000.
  10. The heel and toe are more sensitive as the windings come closer together, it's the same with all elliptical coils, but then for outright depth on larger targets the center of the coil is the deepest, it's only on small targets the heel and toe are deeper. For the 6" the most sensitive spot is always the very middle of the coil regardless of target size. For gold prospecting the elliptical is very beneficial if you can't get the center of the 6" over the target due to rocks or bushes. I think both coils are very good, each have their strong points. For outright small gold sensitivity the 6" seems best though.
  11. Yep, $423 AUD for the coil and $31.60 AUD for shipping. I bought my Detech Arrow from them, they use quick shipping too. Thanks for the tip.
  12. Convinced me too ? Should have known, it seems the share many of the GPZ Concentric characteristics. I'm betting it's better in EMI too? They're certainly a good price. http://phasetechnical.com.au/product/detech-18-concentric-coil/ They might make a really good beach coil too. I've only got so many purchases I can get past the boss at a time and a few other coils are necessary at the moment but would you be willing to ship one of these babies to NZ at some point in the near future Nenad?
  13. The middle is not as sensitive as the heel and toe on tiny targets nor as deep, as the targets get bigger the middle becomes the most sensitive and certainly the deepest part of the coil on bigger targets, as someone intending to use it for coin type targets this will not be an issue with you and in fact it's a benefit of the Coiltek to those who use it to hunt small gold having the really hot heel and toe. I haven't used mine for coin type hunting as I require the most depth possible so little coils serve no purpose for my coin hunts and if in a real junky area it makes more sense to put the 6" on rather than the 10x5" as the footprint is smaller, less chance of two targets under the coil at once. These are the sorts of things you've got to weigh up when you decide which to buy, both work really well, never seen someone break the ears off a 6" so it's likely just a problem with the bigger coils maybe sometimes due to people leaning on the detector getting up from a dig causing fractures with the bigger coils. Never seen someone break the Coiltek ears. Either way you cant' go wrong, both are good coils.
  14. If you popped out a 10x5" DD coil that would be a great seller. The 6000's pretty rubbish where there is much EMI about without using the DD coil and the 14" is too big for every occasion so just one single smaller DD could would make the world of difference. I'd most certainly be a buyer. I'll be sure to get a small DD somehow.
  15. The way I see it is the 6000 is sensitive enough to small gold with the 11" coil, you really don't need more small gold sensitivity than the 11" coil gives. The GPZ was not sensitive enough with small gold which is why it greatly benefited from small coils turning it into an entirely different detector. With the 6000 being already great on the small gold with the 11" there are two reasons I wanted a smaller coil for it, obviously the key one being to get the coil into places an 11" coil is just too big and awkward and the other one is giving the 6000 some more depth on the smaller bits as that's where it's a bit lacking at the moment compared to the GPZ and small coil. If by putting a 10x5" or another brands smaller coil on it I can get some extra depth on those smaller bits I'll be happy. This would normally be the case the smaller the coil the more depth on small gold so I'm hoping that holds true also for the 6000. What I do know already is the 17" coil on the 6000 is nowhere near as deep on small gold as the 11" and this is from actual in field finds that JW and I did side by side comparison on, this bodes well for the 10x5" being deeper than the 11" on the really small bits.
  16. I broke my shaft on my GPZ pretty quickly, one of those little clips you've reinforced with glue cracked and when it failed the other clip also cracked pretty quickly, this was using my little coils in long grass, I guess I was a bit too aggressive with it, I do use it to flatten down grass a lot. Minelab service were excellent and replaced the clips for me. X-coils also made a 26" mono coil for the GPX series when they were making GPX coils, it was only sold within their country where they often hunt for bigger deeper targets. I can imagine a coil that size you'd need your shaft extended to full length just to keep the thing from bashing into your legs when swinging and it'd require a good quality shaft ? I would imagine your 26" CC will weigh less than the GPZ 19" Stock coil anyway.
  17. I just put two and two together, they're your videos ? Thanks for taking the time to do them, all videos with information are appreciated.
  18. Towards the end of the video he finds some smaller bits that were reasonably impressive on size alone more so than his depths. On the other bits I'd get double of triple the depth he's finding them at even with his bigger dig holes just with the standard coil and without over digging my holes ? Many times it's impossible to over dig holes here as we have quite shallow bedrock and that's where the gold sits so you know the actual depth when you hit the bedrock and then you're getting the gold off the bedrock, or alternatively the gold is in the bedrock and I'm breaking it out so I have a really good idea the depth I can find bits of gold, there is no doubt about depth in those situations. Yes, they're not intending to make 6000 coils for public sale at the moment, it's just not cost effective to ship them. Anyway veering off track for a Coiltek thread. I think judging by the few little nuggets at the end of the video the Coiltek 10x5" seems like a coil I'd like to have. The guy should really consider taking his watch and ring off when detecting though ?
  19. This guy marketing the Coiltek coils inadvertently captured exactly what I've been saying with the GPX 6000. It screams on small targets close to the coil yet they can completely disappear in your dig out pile as the signal rapidly drops off with some depth. All the other prior digs in the video you just see the recovered target with him saying it was "insert inches here" deep but its obvious the way he digs the holes were likely much deeper than the nuggets actually were and in this case he decided to film a dig from the start rather than just showing a big hole and a little bit of gold, the reason for it is he dug a hole far deeper than the gold was and piled the soil on top of the nugget then he scans over his dig out pile and the nugget has disappeared so he flattens it out to find it. The nugget was actually near the surface which is why it was at the bottom of his dug out dirt. I linked the video to start at the right place to see what I mean. I am planning on getting the 10x5" Coiltek though and I think although it's hard to know the Coiltek coils seemed to run a little more stable on the detector based off that video and I'm sure in my milder soils the results will be more impressive to me than that video was. I'm actually really looking forward to getting one of these smaller coils for it, the 10x5" seems the pick of the bunch for me from Coiltek.
  20. My links should let you install it if you know how to install APK files. https://www.lifewire.com/install-apk-on-android-4177185
  21. Yup, 5000 would likely miss that in any timing and if you were in an area with a lot of that type of gold then yes, the 5000 isn't the best choice. VLF's love that type of gold though and the 6000 is meant to be better on it than the 5000. I think the GPZ is better on it too, I don't need to worry so much about gold like that as we don't seem to have it here. Just yesterday out of interest I tested my latest 12 nugget finds on my GPX 5000 with 10" X-coil, I used that coil as it's the most sensitive coil I own being the smallest fully spiral wound coil I have for the GPX 5000. The nuggets were all 0.067 of a gram (1.03 grain) and smaller, down as low as 0.036 of a gram (0.55 of a grain) which is the one that has to touch the coil on the 5000, I guess I should clarify what I mean by touching the coil too. It means I doubt I'd find it in the wild as the smallest thing like some small gravel on the ground or grass on the soil would prevent the coil getting close enough to get a good enough hit on it that would make me find it, it'd have to be on pretty flat bedrock to find it. The interesting thing was the GPX 5000 hit the smallest nugget fine with quite good depth on most the nuggets I thought, it was some of the mid size ones it didn't hit at all or needed them touching the coil. Out of the 12 nuggets (flakes I guess some would say) the GPX 5000 hit 8 of them. The smallest nugget of the lot the GPX 5000 hits when it touches the coil at 0.036 of a gram or 0.055 of a grain. Interestingly the 3 the GPX 5000 misses are some of the larger size of them all, the one on the left very is 0.069 or a gram and the one on the far right is 0.067 of a gram, both around the 1 grain mark. This would be a demonstration of that ground balance gap that makes the GPX 5000 miss some gold more so than other detectors like the GPX 6000 and GPZ 7000 that appear to have a smaller gap of missed targets. All of these nuggets were found with the GPZ 7000 except a couple which were GPX 6000 nuggets, either way both the GPX 6000 and GPZ hit them all, overall the GPZ hits them all deeper in air tests by using the 8" coil on it. It's hard to believe the GPX 5000 completely misses this one even touching the coil when it hits well on far smaller nuggets like the one pictured below it gets a few inches on I'd not used the older GPX models in ages now and I was in fact surprised how well the 5000 with 10" coil did on this really small gold. It's inspired me to take the time to compare it to the 6000 on some small gold in the near future and just see how much better the 6000 really is on this small stuff. I might do some video when the weather improves, we've just had our biggest snow storm in decades a few days ago. The 6000's target response is certainly louder/more agressive but the 5000 appeared to get some good depth on the really small ones too. My 5000 settings were sensitive extra, gain of 20, audio boost and the rest on default from memory, I should check that.
  22. Well Avantree Support was very good, they contacted me back in the time frame they said they would, unfortunately they can't fix the crackling popping sounds when connected with aptX LL. Some people may not even notice them I'm just very fussy with audio, the crackling sounds drive me crazy. Here was their reply. Sara (Avantree Support) Jun 14, 2022, 22:42 PDT Hi Simon, Sorry to let you waiting a long time. We are so sorry that we still can't fix this now. We'd love to to make a part refund for you if you will keep the Torus. If that is OK for you, please provide us your order No. Or you could return it to amazon if you don't want to keep it. Apology again for such a case. Take Care! Sara Avantree Support ========================= Find Your Product's Video Guides, Troubleshooting Tips, FAQs or Simply Book a Call Not happy? Escalate to T2 Support I'll just keep the things and use them for something else, hopefully they come out with a firmware update in the future to improve the aptX LL support on them, I previously asked if it was just my ones doing it and they said no it is a known problem. Their tech support is very good and they're obviously honest not trying to hide the problem, I guess they knew replacing them for me wasn't going to resolve it. They have awesome sound quality when connected with other codecs, it's just aptX Low Latency that has the problem. So if anyone's thinking of buying them for their 6000 it's something to be aware of, as I said on a noisy threshold like the GPX 6000 some may not even notice it so much and it just blend in as part of the threshold. For me I'd rather use the headphones and I hate headphones. They may have been pulled for sale from Amazon Australia, it seems yesterday they went to out of stock and not sure if they're coming back again, they were sold on Amazon direct from Avantree. https://www.amazon.com.au/Avantree-Wearable-Wireless-Bluetooth-Retractable/dp/B07Y56W9XQ Avantree have agreed to giving me a reasonable partial refund if I will keep them so I've accepted their offer.
  23. Thanks Gerry, yep, I've already discussed buying it with my dealer, we probably will get them first. I intend to get one of each of the brands to work out which I prefer using. Yup, I know exactly what you mean about smaller coils finding stuff up against rocks and things that bigger coils easily miss with their field of detection more concentrated nearer to the target. It might be too early for you to know but did you find it better in EMI than the 11"? I would hope so being smaller but It'd be good to hear that it is better.
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