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Has Detector Build Quality Decreased Dramatically Over The Years?


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This wasn't really a thread about Minelab, I think it's well established their quality has been a bit lacking of late for whatever reason, hopefully they've resolved their 6000 problems now and it sounds like it by dealer reports.  It was more about the other brands joining the party. I always thought Minelab were excellent quality until recently, my GPZ is a solid build, my 4500 and 5000 I think are very tough reliable designs,  I always had the impression XP were very good quality yet the Deus 2 is having some troubles, and more notably Nokta came out and boldly were saying their detectors are much better quality than the competition and then since their Legend release it's been plagued with problems too, many of which have been hardware requiring detectors and coils replaced, it was more pointing out for some reason at the moment no brands seem immune to quality issues, even the ones that thought they were.

The difference with those brands too, XP and Nokta is they build in house, their products are their own making, Minelab just subcontract and don't even make metal detectors anymore so they have someone to blame and try pull into line, XP and Nokta make their own in their own production facilities and have full control yet they're having plenty of problems too, especially ironically Nokta that used the "better build quality" as a way of marketing and taking pot shots at Minelab.

JP's right about with the days of social media these faults are out in the open a lot more than they used to be so we hear a lot more about problems than previously so manufacturers really have to be on the ball with quality or word spreads quickly.

I was more curious if detectors have always been quite problematic or if it's more a recent thing as the Equinox was the first major release during my time of detecting and it had it's share of problems then the other detectors that have come out after it too have been a bit shaky, so I wasn't sure if this is just quite normal for detectors.

Out of interest, when Minelab changed over to offshore production did they reduce their prices to reflect their much lower manufacturing cost, or did the detectors remain the same price? 

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