Rob in (ca) Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Notice The Coil has MF on it as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCtoad Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 This will be my next detector purchase. I was seriously thinking of buying a deus and then this new model was announced. Hopefully I will be able to get on a waitlist like I did for the equinox. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadfield Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 12 hours ago, ☠ Cipher said: Someone in the YouTube comments mentioned an infrared signal. That was me, there is something else on the coil that catches the red pulse, guess we will have to wait and see. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mh9162013 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 22 hours ago, abenson said: I wonder what they plan to price this machine at? Hopefully not a couple grand. I can possibly see it pushing $1500 to put it above the Deus. But it could also replace the Deus. And it will most likely be priced above the ORX. Then you also have to consider the competition, mainly Minelab! The Equinox is submersible, the Deus 2 likely will not be submersible but may be weatherproof. So maybe it will be priced closer to the 800. I'd be happy to see a price around $1000 If it's priced around $1,000, that would be pretty sweet (although I expect it to be closer to $1,500). That's still too high for me, but it's close enough to the Equinox 800 to impose some serious competition...assuming it performs well, of course. But based on what people say about the Deus, I expect the Deus II to be competitive with other SMF machines. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
☠ Cipher Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 How much you want to bet that this starts a 3-way update war between Minelab, XP, and Nokta Makro as they try to add features to outdo each other for our business. Just one way online updates benefit us; and when driven by competition who knows how far it could go. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chase Goldman Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 24 minutes ago, ☠ Cipher said: How much you want to bet that this starts a 3-way update war between Minelab, XP, and Nokta Makro as they try to add features to outdo each other for our business. Why did you leave Garrett out of that party? The fact remains only ML and Garrett have actually released SMF detectors of those four companies. Let’s see Nokta and XP actually release something more tangible in the SMF product line than video teases and Facebook videos before we start talking about SMF detector update wars. Both XP and Nokta are notorious for teasing product months and even years before actual release… Hey I’m excited too, but just keeping it real… It my be fun to run a pool (or poll) to predict who will release their SMF detector first: will it be Nokta or XP? WRT to your original question, the answer depends on how extensible the underlying platform is based on SW updates alone. ML, Nokta, and XP have a long track record of introducing SW based bug fixes and feature updates via user installed firmware releases. Garrett also released an update for Apex. Not sure how much further ML can take Equinox as far as features are concerned, the 4khz add was a nice surprise as was the F2 iron bias feature. But did anyone notice that it’s been more than a year since the last Equinox update. Does ML have another Equinox trick up its sleeve or is the Nox done as far as updates are concerned as ML focuses on their next consumer grade SMF platform (hopefully the affordable successor to the eTrac/CTX…)? And in the process leap further ahead of their competitors who are still just learning to fly with SMF. Encouraged by the XP promotional material, but they are being very careful not to commit to any release date announcements. We’ll see. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivers rat Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 i got only 1 word: xppleasetakemymoney A Tarsacci in Diving version will be good too. RR 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water spider Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 it is about direction and who is taking that direction. better to venture than rest. the 1st car manufacturer does not still make the best car. other's risk the venture and that is what i apperciate. XP is going in that direction, armchair quaterbacking is easy and not always helpful 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Geotech Posted October 27, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 27, 2021 Flex Multi Frequency. My guess is that it's like Equinox in that there are different frequency blends for different modes. The pod is obviously waterproof and even has what looks like an M8 or M12 connector, making me think that they have a hard-wired coil option for water hunting in addition to wireless coils. 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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