XP Deus Versus XP Orx

[Hombre91]

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8 minutes ago, Hombre91 said:

I know this an old thread but price point is relative to the current environment for this interesting old discussion where a new Deus can be had with a MI 6 pin pointer, X35 coil, and wired headphones for $950. That is $950 out the door with free shipping and no tax from the big boys (no affiliation). The same set up Orx wise sans pin pointer is available for $650. If you add a pin pointer to the Orx that comes up to $810.

Is a Deus is $140-$300 better than an Orx today?

  Note the Orx package can come with the wireless headphones, and a choice of coils including HF for the same $650. So that changes the math a little bit depending on configuration

[abenson]

If it were me, and I have had both. I would opt to go straight to the Deus 2 unless you're on a budget. But it's going to depend on what you're using it for. The ORX is a very capable machine and simple to use. If you need adjustability for tough sites I would opt for the Deus. The ORX has a lot less things you can adjust on it vs the Deus.  I would take the Deus just for the multiple tone options alone because I personally don't use 3 tones and I'm constantly changing my tone breaks based on the sites I hunt. Some people only use factory programs and never want to change anything and that's fine. So if you want simple get the ORX if you like to tinker with adjustments, you'll be happier with the Deus.

[Jeff McClendon]

2 hours ago, Hombre91 said:

Is a Deus $140-$300 better than an Orx today?

Is a Deus 1 that much better than an ORX. Absolutely. I would go $500 or more better for the coin, jewelry, relic hunter.

Like Abenson said, if you want a fairly simple to operate but very limited feature coin, jewelry and relic detector, that would be the ORX.

The ORX coin modes have many, many drawbacks compared to the Deus 1. Some of the biggest for me are the lack of tone options including just 3 tones, only 1 adjustable tone break, no tone pitch adjustments, no full tones, no notching, and the biggest for me in mineralized ground.....the ORX Coin mode's iron range stops at zero. The Deus 1 iron range stops at -6.4. Trust me, there are a lot of iron targets and in iron mineralization there are a lot of non-ferrous targets that have their IDs skewed into that negative iron range, that the ORX in its Coin modes will not hit, period.

If you mostly want an ORX for gold prospecting with the occasional coin, jewelry and relic hunt.....the ORX Gold modes actually have more features than the Deus 1 Gold Field program and the ORX Gold mode's iron range goes all the way down to -6.4 just like Deus 1.

So for me, ORX versus Deus all depends on what you will mostly be using it for. Gold prospecting get the ORX. Anything else, get the Deus 1 or if you have the money definitely get the Deus 2 and skip Deus 1 and ORX.