Apex Hybrid Audio = Modulated Audio?

[Cal_Cobra]

On 5/24/2020 at 9:15 PM, Dances With Doves said:

I have a feeling that after the Apex release that minelab will pull a new rabbit out of the   hat.Nox  multi  Iq2 or     vanquish  pro with ground  balance  plus all nox frequencies without waterproof.

Doubt they'll touch the Vanquish until they do a refresh on it years down the road.

I suspect the next thing we'll see is an Equinox Pro w/M-IQ2 and more features that were on the CTX, perhaps the dual number ID system, GPS, color screen, who knows.  If we look at the history of their SMF machines (Sovereign, Explorer line, etc) we've seen them drop their initial product, and then several years later they release a model based on the same technology, with new features, refinements, etc.  Nothing ground breaking generally, but better.   If you look at the Sovereign XS vs XS2A-Pro, there weren't really a lot of differences, but enough that it was a more desirable. 

I have heard through the detector grapevine that even as far back as their Detectival launch, they were already working on the second gen Equinox.  I'm sure they've learned an immense amount of what works well and doesn't on the existing MIQ generation, and maybe they listen to their customers wants and needs with plans to incorporate those features into the next gen Equinox.

Given how popular and successful the Equinox has been, they may be in no hurry to drop a replacement, and may be leveraging their engineering resources on something else. If you think about it, everyone else is playing catch-up to the Equinox bar (SMF price:performance ratio), so they may milk this for a while, and when Garrett, Nokta or (gasp) FTP (don't hold your breath waiting for FTP, you may suffocate) come to the table with a contender, then they may drop the Equinox Pro M-IQ2 machine or whatever they will designate it.  I'd say that Minelab will be hard to beat for the foreseeable future, although I like that Garrett's taking a stab at it.  Competition is great for us consumers, and it's great that they are finally offering these high performance SMF machines at very reasonable prices compared to the likes of the CTX, Etrac, etc.

[Steve Herschbach]

Yeah, CTX replacement at lower price makes the most sense. I’d be surprised if we see anymore GPS from Minelab however. Too many prospectors with conspiracy mindsets complained about Minelab sending the coordinates of their gold patches home to the mothership (complete nonsense) and refusing to use it. Plus people complaining it adds cost and weight to the detectors (negligible in either case). Minelab clearly lost interest in upgrading XChange after the GPZ release and have replaced it entirely with Equinox as the way to get updates, etc. Personally I loved integrated GPS and thought it was only halfway to being fully exploited, but unfortunately few people see it the way I do. I used to actively try and promote integrated GPS, but gave up when I realized I was spitting in the wind. If Minelab drops it the other manufacturers will see it as a failed mistake, confirming they were wise to never try it at all. That era may now be done before it really ever reached its full potential.

But this is a Garrett thread so best to stop speculating on Minelab here. That’s a subject for another forum.

[Cal_Cobra]

5 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

But this is a Garrett thread so best to stop speculating on Minelab here. That’s a subject for another forum.

Well I did mention Garrett, just to stay on topic and all ?

[Coinboy]

On 5/24/2020 at 9:38 PM, Steve Herschbach said:

I have used countless detectors without a recovery speed setting, and to this day only a tiny minority of the detectors made have such a feature, including many top performing machines.

Be fun to make a new thread with a list, as it would not be all that long a list.

Good idea Steve!

[Chase Goldman]

30 minutes ago, Coinboy said:

Good idea Steve!

 

[EL NINO77]

Garrett Apex can definitely have the advantage ,, ..... since it is the latest Multifrequency Detector ... Garrett's .. engineers had enough time to compare it with the best detectors on the market ...

Thanks to the fact that they also inserted into the unit the possibility of working on 4 individual frequencies ... it can be seen that they leave nothing to chance ...

So far, it is very difficult to say anything specific about the multifrequency itself in Apex i .. -because there is little ...