Jeff McClendon Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 35 minutes ago, Geotech said: SMF is either 23 or 33 years old, depending on your definition of SMF. And I would not be so sure it's peaked. It hasn't peaked yet from what I am seeing from the Manticore and Deus 2 compared to late 1990s and since the Equinox in 2018. Most of the people saying it's peaked haven't been able to use this newer tech. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. MI Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Would have been nice if Minelab had continued with and upgraded the Sovereign. Looking forward to seeing what Garrett comes up with. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCR Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Signal processing, including utilizing AI is still advancing. That is going to be the key aspect going forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff McClendon Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Watched the video again to catch some more details. Carbon fiber mid and lower shafts. The coil cable is inside the shafts. IP69 waterproof. 2.65 pounds. More flexible multi frequency choices as in the user has more autonomy over which frequencies are being used simultaneously......I think he was saying that. The wildest part for me is I think he said ground penetrating radar twice with some kind of multi colored graph like a Whites V3i with a different color for each metal. He specifically mentioned iron, gold, copper and silver would each have a different colored graph line........and then he said he didn't see how that would work in Russia since all of the jewelry there is heavily alloyed!!!......GPS satellite capable with SIM card. $1200 version has a coil, wired headphones, wireless headphones (I think he said Koss) and a pinpointer (probably pairs wirelessly). The $870 version is just the detector and coil with no extras. April 5th launch and April 17th goes on sale. Don't shoot me, this is what the video maker said with some room for mistakes by the auto translator and my bad Russian language skills. Basically I can grunt and moan in Russian! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digalicious Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 I skimmed through the video, and it looks like I might have gotten it close to right, when I predicted it would have user adjustable SMF weighting from 1 to 100 KHz. Although I kind of question if such a feature would have much tangible benefit, considering current SMF detectors have different weighted SMF modes that seem to suffice. It also looks like it might show a target response graph for particular frequencies. Is that not what the V3i did? If so, could that be helpful in discerning aluminum from gold? I'm guessing not though, because if such a feature could help accomplish that, then it would still be in use today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phrunt Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 If the video is even half correct it sounds like a great detector to me. People doubted Nokta could make a detector to even come close to the Equinox, well they made an Equinox. Garrett have just as much potential to bring something good to market and they didn't buy out Whites for nothing. Really excited to see what they've done. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lama Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 12 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said: Watched the video again to catch some more details. Carbon fiber mid and lower shafts. The coil cable is inside the shafts. IP69 waterproof. 2.65 pounds. More flexible multi frequency choices as in the user has more autonomy over which frequencies are being used simultaneously......I think he was saying that. The wildest part for me is I think he said ground penetrating radar twice with some kind of multi colored graph like a Whites V3i with a different color for each metal. He specifically mentioned iron, gold, copper and silver would each have a different colored graph line........and then he said he didn't see how that would work in Russia since all of the jewelry there is heavily alloyed!!!......GPS satellite capable with SIM card. $1200 version has a coil, wired headphones, wireless headphones (I think he said Koss) and a pinpointer (probably pairs wirelessly). The $870 version is just the detector and coil with no extras. April 5th launch and April 17th goes on sale. Don't shoot me, this is what the video maker said with some room for mistakes by the auto translator and my bad Russian language skills. Basically I can grunt and moan in Russian! That is exactly how i read it i wonder if when he talks about gpr if he means some sort of imaging sizing sort of thing 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 I'd be cautious in putting too much weight on that video. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MD4V.org Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 I'm wondering if they will update the AT Pro, to a SMF machine like the Equinox or Legend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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