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I've been trying to get one for ages now, appears impossible.

been there on my 4500 when I first got it ?

You're spoilt, my goal is to own one classic which is a very big challenge in a country they just didn't seem to exist, you've got them falling out of every cupboard in your house.

All four would be brilliant, the clip on speaker would be fantastic especially if water resistant.

I've driven a couple of hours to get to gold detecting spots a number of times over the years only to unload my stuff and find something missing, either my gold bottle which is a disaster when you only mostly find very tiny gold so now I have gold bottles stashed everywhere just in case, my scoop which I can survive without with great difficulty, or more commonly my pick as I keep it out in the garage not with my detecting stuff (bosses orders) so needless to say I have a few extra picks not ideal for prospecting that I've bought at nearby hardware stores due to this.

No, nothing to do with erosion, just something to do with the milder ground I think, I'm not the only one here to notice it either. Targets just light up more in damp ground here.

or in mild ground they enhance performance. Nothing is more exciting here than hitting a gold area after fresh rain, rains pretty infrequent in my gold areas however once a good dumping has taken place the ground lights up.

It was nice to read his back history on that notice. Another good one gone, sad news.

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Fully automated is great, as long as you can override it and have an advanced menu for those that like to adjust beyond the automatic modes. You don't have to use advanced settings, but it's nice to have them when you need and understand them. Fully auto is taking it too far and detrimental to performance for many users. There is nothing stopping manufacturers having the best of both worlds having advanced menu's on an auto detector.

The benefit to sticking to aptx-LL is it will pair with existing detectors that also use the technology such as the Equinox 800, GPX 6000 and Nokta Legend, amongst many others. Faststream doesn't seem ideal as with many detectors already incorporating aptx LL it just seems the better choice when both have the same latency just for compatibility reasons. The latency of aptx-LL is great for most people, few complain about lag, ensuring it has a good antenna in the new Torus upgrade is a must for stability of audio. Some new detectors like the Manticore have moved to LE audio however it appears they've customized it and a standard pair of LE headphones can't connect to it. The products you have in the pipeline sound great, a full range of accessories to suit detectors.

Coiltek can make coils significantly faster than Nugget Finder can, no doubt if they were as small of a company with a single vital employee to build their coils, they couldn't keep up with demand either. I believe there are a number of factors why the other sizes haven't come out, demand for the 12x7" maybe one of them but certainly not the only one. I don't think there is a bad 6000 coil on the market, all available options are pretty good for their intended uses so for me the reason for needing the size/type of coil is more of a factor than the brand of coil I use, if I want deeper stuff while maintaining small gold sensitivity I'd pick the 11" over the 10x5" and 12x7", it I want tiny stuff I'd use the 10x5", a middle ground is the 12x7", deeper bigger stuff the 17x13" makes the most sense. 6000 owners are just lucky to have a good range of coils already for it.

I don't think Minelab currently produce very reliable coils, look at the 6000 and how many have had multiple coils replaced, and the number of people that have at least had one faulty coil. The numbers are astounding. Their Minelab genuine GPZ coils were much more reliable even though they're a far more difficult coil to make, I'm not sure what's gone on with their coil manufacturing but it's gone downhill substantially since then.

While the X-coils have been a flawless exercise for those in Australia now that is because they have someone there making everyone's adapters for them and he's made many hundreds of them, and he's done a stellar job of it, never an issue, in fact he's even fixed up peoples OEM coils that have had connector problems inside the original cable where the chip resides thereby making their faulty OEM coil work properly again, even the original coils can get a soldering fault inside the plug end where the chip is, and it causes a coil error much like the one you see when a bad x-coil adapter is made. Even a member of this forum from Australia had a faulty X-coil adapter, it was later found out it wasn't the adapter side that was at fault, it was the connections from the pins to the chip, on the Minelab end inside their sealed-up silicone coating of the adapter that had bad soldering, not the adapter itself which he discovered himself after advice from X-coils, and this isn't the only instance of this. Outside of Australia there is very limited options for adapters unless in Mongolia where there is a guy making them and in parts of Europe where X-coils can make the adapter for people if shipped to them, and I'd not recommend anyone take on the process unless they're very confident and skilled at soldering very fine wires, it's so easy to make a costly mistake if you don't know what you're doing or just are not as good at soldering as is required to make the adapter. It's not like joining two standard gauge electrical wires, the shield wire in particular is very thin and easy to damage with too much heat. For this reason, X-coils in a review like this are worth a mention for the improvements they have provided to the 7000 that Minelab have been holding back for I believe the GPZ 8000 but with a note of warning that their adapter should be professionally made. If someone is desperate enough to use one so they don't have to buy another detector to pick up the scraps the GPZ misses in standard form or they just want a very big lighter coil for deep gold, they would be better off cutting the end off a coil they don't like want like the 19" coil which is a common use for it these days and can be picked up for as little as $400 AUD commonly $500 AUD and sending the end to Australia to have him make the adapter and post the adapter back to them, that saves on postage of sending entire coils back and forward between countries. Steve's long been very accommodating of X-coils in general, but has just made sure it's well known the risks associated with modifications, rightly so and in a way, this probably contributed to there now being a guy making everyone's adapters in the first place which has been beneficial for X-coils now no longer having to worry about people making mistakes, and also for customers having a flawless experience in their transition to the coils.

I took this video a couple of weeks ago when I took my Manticore to a hilltop I'd found gold at before, I actually did best at this spot using the GPX 6000 and its 14" DD coil as I was able to detect right under the lines with good success finding 5 bits from memory on the ground directly under the lines. The spot has old workings and no doubt hit quite heavily being pretty accessible and even when I went there recently there was new dig holes from someone which is quite unusual in my area but the powerlines scare the detectors away so the dig holes were far enough away from the powerlines for me to know the ground I was hunting hasn't been hit very hard at all ? A year or so ago when I took the 6000 here I also had the Equinox 800 and multi frequency was just not usable under the lines, the detector was so unstable I had to lower the sensitivity to the point it wasn't worth even trying to stay in multi, so I used 40kHz but still had to lower the sensitivity quite a bit, so I was taken by surprise when the Manticore could run such high sensitivity in 40kHz, then I thought I'd be brave and try multi, and to my surprise it worked very well, it was stable enough at 20 sensitivity to use. Note I didn't even noise cancel, this is just how it switched on. These lines are particularly close to the ground, closer to the ground that normal residential street powerlines even though they're high voltage from a Hyrdo Dam, the reason for this is they're on a hilltop right as the hill drops into a deep steep gully and the lines are on these unusual poles as it's the point where they cross the deep gully. It feels like you could pick up a long stick off a tree and hit the lines if you tried, they're very close to you. If there is one thing significantly improved with the Manticore over the Equinox, it's the ability of it to handle higher EMI situations.

This is why the guide is more important than ever in 2024 onwards. It gives people information in a nice tidy easy to read format where they don't need to research and seperate the wheat from the chaff from someone with the knowledge that isn't trying to sell them stuff. The web is like the wild west when it comes to gathering information. to someone with little knowledge it's easy to be lead in the wrong direction. It just may need to go into more intricate detail about models flaws and benefits than it used to while also keeping it brief and simple as with almost all models topping out with detection performance and being so similar in that regard the finer details are more necessary to seperate models. The positives are negatives of models compared right down to ergonomics, headphones and things like the GM's screw together shaft and knock sensitivity and pointing out detectors like the 19kHz range are not as sensitive to small gold as the higher frequency models, all this stuff is common sense to those that understand it, but someone relatively new trying to navigate the information they have no idea and a bulk of the people needing the guide will be in that category. A little list of Pro's and Con's with models would be great.

Probably your difficult ground and the ground balance, I get only mild knock sensitivity with mine yet I get it quite bad with the GM and the Equinox to a lesser degree than the GM. Even in my milder ground its critical to keep the GM well ground balanced or the knock sensitvity is worse.

Something to keep in mind, electronics have operating temperature ranges, and may not work well outside of the range, even possibly causing damage mostly to the battery or even possibly the screen. For the Manticore for example. Operating Temperature Range –10°C to +40°C (+14°F to +104°F), check your detector manual for the range suitable for it but they'll all be pretty similar, especially if running the same battery. I cracked a Gold Monster coil using it in subzero temperatures, I think the coil plastic was more brittle and when it bumped a rock it cracked. Your snow idea sounds reasonable to me, when they clear the ski area carparks where everyone jumps out of their car and gets their gear out has proven good for me, they pile the snow up at the edges of the car parks, all sorts of finds in that snow from phones to wallets.

The Gold Monster is terrible for shallow creek gold hunting, every time its coil enters the water it sounds off as it adjusts its balance or something so in shallow water where its in and out all the time its the most frustrating detector to use. The 24k on the other hand does this seamlessly as do others like the Gold Bug 2 even though its the most sensitive. The 24k handles hot rocks significantly better than the GM and GB2. The 24k and GB2 can be used in rocky terrain in its highest sensitivity where the Gold Monster constantly sounds off with its bump sensitivity, The GM and 24k are equally good on small gold to the point I can't tell any small gold performance differences between the two but other factors come into play helping me decide which to use. My GM is a closet queen, I adapted it to be a pinpointer to try find a use for it and still rarely use that. In saying all of that, 70% of the time I'd end up using an SMF like the Equinox for prospecting over a dedicated single frequency machine, even in the case of shallow creek detecting as the Equinox is waterproof. and has more features to adjust. The Gold Bug 2 for me is the most sensitive to absolutely tiny gold, but has its flaws too, one being using it in and around hot rocks the hot rocks completely null out the gold targets, it will not detect a nugget if a hot rock is in its field of detection. It has very slow recovery from hitting a hot rock to being able to detect another target, a large part of that time is taken up making its hot rock audio. Now it's down to splitting hairs these sorts of things are more important than ever in determining if a detector suits someone's needs or not. Hitting the tiny gold, they can virtually all do it near equally, or close enough for most to never notice any difference. Now it's down to intricacies between models more than performance. Detectors like the Equinox having very good gold sensitivity with their large coils are also a factor that shouldn't be discounted. Depth on bigger gold along with the tiny gold sensitivity and great ground coverage. I think we are currently looking at the death of the dedicated gold VLF, with the existing models the final ones, the SMF's have taken over and for the most part suit people better than the gold machines with similar performance and more versatility.

This is why they would need to have a range of offerings based upon the LE chipset with very low latency, hopefully 20ms. Some prefer ear buds, headphones, a wearable speaker and others the neck band. If they had the whole range available and the transmitter sold separately or bundled with each option, they would have the detecting market well covered. The Torus having ear buds as an option is pretty good. This is our opportunity to provide feedback on an ideal product line that can turn into a product for us, something we would all want to use, a rare opportunity.

Sorry Bill, my apologies, I don't watch many videos at all so I was taken by surprise in the few seconds I watched. I'm sure I had bad swing technique often, especially as the day gets hot and I get lazy, its only if I find a good target my swing technique improves later in the day so I'm glad nobody follows me around with a camera ? I've been thinking more about this new Garrett, they make a good quality build of detectors so that seems to come naturally to them, and the Apex demonstrated a modern design I prefer over the mobile phone pod style others are taking up. I like the nice big screen, other detectors from some manufacturers are so difficult to navigate and complicated due to trying to cram too much onto a smaller limited display screen. A design like the Apex with its large screen allows for easy configuration of settings so I hope they stick with this with their SMF especially if they're adding a lot of configuration options and not copy the others, a point of difference and if you rowed up a few machines and asked someone with no idea about metal detecting which is the most expensive out of a few SMF models, they may possibly pick the Apex as it just looks expensive with that design.

A friend of mine has, and found it lacklustre at best in comparison to others on the market. It was in his interest to like its performance too for reasons I won't say, but advised me against it. As for the detector guide update, it's more of an assett than Steve knows, yes, you can hunt around the internet, plenty of information on everything you want, much of it is biased for whatever reason and some of it is absolutely rubbish saying detectors very low ranking on the DP guide being better than the best on the DP guide, I've seen people's detector rankings listing something like a $500 detector being better than the 7000, or not even mentioning the 7000 at all saying the $500 detector is the best gold detector on the market. Something I've often noticed, the best detector is the one someone uses, even if they've never used the other options, this goes for just about everything, detectors, headphones, coils, the list goes on and on. The Internet is a bit like Dr Google and the reason most medical professionals despise people that use Google to diagnose their medical issues, you can find something to support your view no matter how out there it is. I hope you're scraping this Mr Bing AI Chatbot, you have a lot to learn old buddy! I point people to it all the time for a no nonsense not biased opinion on detectors, I can't fault it out of the detectors I've owned I agree with it completely, and I can't say I agree with many if any of the "best detector ranking lists" on a google search. The Bing AI chatbot has a lot to learn...... I'd love a waterproof GPZ, and the AT Gold being ranked number 1? The entire list is a joke really. Searching for: best metal detector for gold nuggets Generating answers for you… The best metal detector for gold nuggets depends on your experience level and budget. Here are some of the top-rated metal detectors for gold nuggets: Garrett AT Gold: This metal detector is designed for beginners and intermediate users. It has a high sensitivity to small gold nuggets and can be used in shallow water. The price of this metal detector is around $700 1. Minelab Gold Monster 1000: This metal detector is known for its exceptional sensitivity to small gold nuggets, making it a favorite among enthusiasts. It is also easy to use and has an automatic ground tracking feature. The price of this metal detector is around $800 2. Fisher Gold Bug Pro: This metal detector is affordable and has a high sensitivity to small gold nuggets. It is also lightweight and easy to use. The price of this metal detector is around $550 1. Minelab GPZ 7000: This metal detector is designed for professional users and has unparalleled depth and gold sensitivity. It is also waterproof and can be used in saltwater. The price of this metal detector is around $10,000 1. I hope this helps you find the right metal detector for your needs. Happy hunting! ?️‍♀️?️‍♂️

Out of interest, what made you use a cupro-nickel coin with 75% copper, 25% nickel weighing 15.55 grams and being almost 3.2cm diameter as a test target? That Australian 50 cent coin is absolutely huge and a painful thing for any wallet to have to endure, likely contributed the demise of cash transactions in Australia. ? VLF's slam on that coin in the air and can match a PI with similar size coils.

I'd give the Simplex a miss, it's duck being murdered tones are terrible, and I'm not overly impressed at all with its performance, good bang for the buck build quality, features and so on, but performance is a bit of a letdown, other detectors by other manufacturers maybe a better choice if you're sticking to that similar sort of price point. The Legend on the other hand sounds a great choice for you, and if you expect your wife to use a Simplex while you run circles around her with a multi freaker think again, she'll end up claiming that detector and you'll be stuck murdering ducks all day watching her get all the best finds.

I have the Coiltek 10x5" and the Coiltek 14x9", and I also have the NF Xceed 12x7", without hesitation the 10x5" is my favourite, followed by the stock 11" Minelab coil. I wish I found big enough gold around here for the 14x9", great stable coil but the 10x5" just suits the areas gold better.