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The current state of the art is replacing knobs with a computer version. If sound is the most important thing, how come my detector doesn’t display a full screen color analysis of the sound? A few decades behind the times?

What's the difference between discrimination and notching, like is there a difference under the hood? Does discrimination give you clipped tones like notching can?? I just got a deus 1 machine so I'm curious, I am coming from nokta machines which only have notching

Looks like everyone is having a different copy version made of all the older Minelab technology. A definite sign Minelab needs to start filling the demand for newer better detector technologies unless of course they have hit a wall. I doubt that is the case as they have the largest electronics engineering team ever known for hobby detector development and have had these engineers on board for a long time now. Surprising they have had no new releases for such a long time in the gold detector series. So what has happened in comparison to the early years when the SD/GP/GPX releases were quite frequent, seems every 2 years or sooner then. Even though they were mostly minor upgrades until the GPX series they were enough to get the buyers interested. The GPX-5000 is about 14 years old and has been still a great selling detector, now it’s not available in the U.S. and you can only get a fake on the knock off marketplace now. SDC-2300 is 12 years old and still no Platypus coil for it. ZED is 9 years old. GM-1000 is 7 years old and still single frequency. So other companies have had plenty of time to make similar designs in a lower price range. Seems like we should have had had an upgraded wide variety and selection of the above mentioned models out by now. Give me a GPX-5500 in a light package and includes the SD2200d or original GPX-4500 depth range and Micks mods incorporated into it and you would have the professional gold hunter market covered. The GPX-6000 should have been called the GPX-auto lite since it has no larger coil options and would of been a great entry level for beginners with a lower price point than the above professional option mentioned. Hopefully things change for the better with the current Minelab corporate leadership and that they get back into the top player market again.

I searched the internet but, still not sure What does SAT adjustment mean on a metal detector? What is SAT. Thanks, Joe

Not sure if this has been posted already but this sounds interesting. According to Woody who is the maker of this new detector, it will be light-years ahead of any other detector currently available. Due possibly this year. I have no idea if the mods he does are any good or if he can create something better than what companies with many emploees/$$$ have at their disposal but I'm rooting that he can. It has an 8-pin plug, wonder why?

Just thought I’d share some of the original adds from the old PI adds. Maybe someone has even some older ones they could share. lot’s of familiar names from the hay days. 😃 Even found some Vlf adds.

Something new. Take a look at the English manual. Instr. za SmartPulse_EN.pdfInstr. za SmartPulse_EN.pdfInstr. za SmartPulse_EN.pdf

Did anyone make one of these way back when. 1955 Two Metal Detector Schematics_s_vs5.0_001.pdf