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Has anyone tried to listen to audio from their phone while detecting w the d2 yet? I was thinking you could possibly connect the 3.5 mm out adaptor to one side of an audio splitter and the 2nd port could connect to your phone via a 3.5 mm cable. Then connect the single end to your aftermarket 3.5 mm headphones.... any thoughts? Am i overcomplicating this? I really want to listen to the podcasts while im detecting... since i already listen to about 3 hrs worth per day!

My mom is 71 years old this year and I'm trying to get her out to some cool places when i can get time off of work. She loves the beach and i love to detect the beach so i wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts on white sand beaches to take her on a vacation to... she's from san diego so that is off limits and id prefer warm beaches. Right now I'm leaning toward the Bahamas but interested in any thoughts you all might have. Due to her age i just need to make sure its safe... and for me, who will fund this, not too insanely expensive.

Trial and error. I did try the other modes but didnt change reactivity on them.

What do you mean accepted or rejected? The settings worked quite well, if that's what you're asking.

Hi guys - I spent the past two days hunting an area with jet black sand, tons of iron (mainly pieces of nails), and minelab equinox 800 and manticore pressure. The black sand and iron mixture really seems to give detectors a hard time. I ran in beach and beach sensitive, alternating between the two after each half hour or so. At first i really struggled to find coins due to chatter and iron... until i decided to try turning up reactivity. Bumped it up to a 5 and immediately started hammering out OBVIOUS coins but lost almost all depth, only picked up coins up to 3 inches or so. Did this for a few hours in a 20x40 area. After i ran out of targets i bumped it down to 4 and found new targets but deeper and a bit harder to isolate from the iron, then down to 2.5 and again deeper and tougher. Interestingly, at a reactivity of 4 or 5 i could pick up 4 or 5 coins in a coil's width area. It seemed like "chatter" but was actually multiple coins in the same area. Different angles or small movements would give me different vdis but they were very stable. At lower reactivity it seemed to break the D2's brain and only registered as a single target, normally coming in as iron, not coins. A manticore and equinox 800 user both hit the same area before me and dug a lot of holes with quite a bit of iron left in them. They seemed to do okay but what surprised me is that over 2 days i pulled over 150 coins from a 20x40 area AFTER they had hit it. The high reactivity really paid off. Since these guys didnt bury their holes i was able to rescan where they dug and a few times i pulled more coins out of their holes! Sometimes multiples! The only thing i can figure is they were getting swamped out by the iron where i wasn't. All in all i did great with over 150 coins, 6 silver Roosevelt dimes, 2 mercs, 2 silver rings, and one tiny silver piece of a necklace. Anyone else run reactivity way up at the beach in trashy areas? 99% of my targets were from a small 20x40 are, so just remember to hammer down once you start hitting targets in an area, especially dimes and quarters that are nice and green! Crown ring was found yesterday, 10 of the 18 in the second pic are from the D2 within the last 3 weeks!!!

Found it with the simplex and a city park that has been hammered for decades! Thanks for the welcome guys. I took the D2 out tonight for some beach detecting and I'm starting to get it nailed down. I found 20ish coins and another silver ring with a giant fake pink diamond. I dug a wheat penny over a foot deep in the wet sand which just blows my mind.

Greetings from a new member in San Luis Obispo, CA. I also spend time in san diego, as well as north east Oklahoma. Started metal detecting in August with a simplex and upgraded this weekend to a Deus 2 since the simplex struggles in wet salt. I'm addicted and metal detect or research about every free minute I have from work. If you're around SLO and want to beep around, let me know. Really looking forward to learning about the Deus 2 from you all, as it has a lot of fine tuning. So far I've found 2 gold rings, 7 or 8 silver rings, one late 1800s barrel tap, a few mercs, a silver half dollar, and my first find was a 1918 standing liberty quarter! I'm also a newly addicted bottle hunter if anyone wants to give that a shot! Thank you all for the awesome posts and your contributions to helping us newbies.