Emi Issues

[mn90403]

2 minutes ago, phrunt said:

I felt I had a similar experience on the GPX with it, lower GPX volume with the sP01 doing the volume seemed to work well for me.

Simon and Norm have brought up another 'point' about the sP01.  It is not just for the GPZ.  It puts 'shoulders' on targets for many detectors.  I'm sure some better than others.  I haven't used it with my Equinox yet or any other of my detectors other than the GPZ and I've had it about 1.5 years.

[jasong]

7 minutes ago, phrunt said:

I am betting it's a difficult situation for Steelphase, trying to explain what it does without revealing what it does.  Last thing he wants is the market being flooded by copycat products.

I agree. I was trying to not ask anything too specific or press the matter for that reason. I actually had a pretty good guess what the SP01 was doing already since I've heard one in the field. Which is in part why I am asking these questions.

Props to him for showing up and answering what he can. I don't want him to reveal trade secrets, but I do think it's good to understand what things do and when/how they should be used so I definitely will always be asking what products do and trying to understand them better for any product really, detecting or otherwise.

Like, if you have a turbocharger in your truck that is intentionally bypassed, then it's kinda pointless to spend a bunch of money on a 3rd party tuner to boost your HP when you could just hook up the turbo and achieve the same or better end result. I wanted to see how similar or dissimilar this situation is with the GPZ.

[egixe4]

2 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

I said filter in the context of "audio filter" which is part of what equalization does but in an active vice passive sense.  Feel free to deflect it all back on me because of my imprecise usage of terms.  Guess

Interesting thread indeed,

I’ve never been a booster user, possibly because I’ve spent a very large portion of my working life in Audio engineering, Speech processing for Speech recognition, voice biometric systems, and IP telephony voice recording.

The inventor/chief designer of Minelab Metal detectors, Mr Bruce Candy is one of the best designers of Audio Amplifiers on the Planet.

You can read all about the man here.

https://halcro.com/history/

[Chase Goldman]

6 hours ago, egixe4 said:

Interesting thread indeed,

I’ve never been a booster user, possibly because I’ve spent a very large portion of my working life in Audio engineering, Speech processing for Speech recognition, voice biometric systems, and IP telephony voice recording.

 

The inventor/chief designer of Minelab Metal detectors, Mr Bruce Candy is one of the best designers of Audio Amplifiers on the Planet.

 

You can read all about the man here.

 

https://halcro.com/history/

 

Interesting, thanks for that.  For the record, I don't use a booster either, but what I do know is that the right choice of headphones makes a huge difference in what I am hearing coming out of the GPX, that's why I was intrigued by the selectable 'Optimum frequency band'  settings on the SP01.  Sort of echoing Mitchel's statement above regarding it's use on detectors other than the GPZ.

[GB_Amateur]

8 hours ago, normmcq said:

The new wireless headphones work so well for me and my particular hearing loss, I wanted to try them on my other detectors, the cost was minimal ($26.00 dollars) and it works great for me.

Norm, you probably said this somewhere along the line (lost in the deep discussions -- 7th page already), so could you post the name (and preferably a link) to these?  I'm always interested in a better solution if it's cost effective.  I shelved the Equinox's ML80's for a couple reasons, one being I didn't like the sound compared to other options I have already available.  Now you have me intrigued.

[flakmagnet]

1 hour ago, Chase Goldman said:

For the record, I don't use a booster either,

Chase, when you try one, I'd be interested in reading your opinion. Especially as it relates
to a GPZ with an sP01.

[Chase Goldman]

2 hours ago, flakmagnet said:

Chase, when you try one, I'd be interested in reading your opinion. Especially as it relates
to a GPZ with an sP01.

I should have also mentioned that I don’t have a GPZ, only a GPX so I probably have no business being in this thread.  

[normmcq]

 GB

  I had decided to try these headphones as they had several recommendations from other members on this forum. They paired with the Equinox the first try and they appear to be fairly durable, no issues so far. Probably about 60 plus hours of use. I found them on Amazon for about $70.00.

                                                                                                  Norm

[mn90403]

Norm

I have the same headphones but I'm one of the few that prefer the headphones that came with the Nox over these.  Last night I really got them sounding good by taking my time over a few targets and making adjustments to both the 5 tone and 50 tone settings.

I will admit that after 4 hours using the Nox headphones it is like peeling them off my ears and is 'painful' in a way.

Mitchel