New XP Stereo Audio Coming Soon?

[Dirt Dynasty]

I just seen this post this morning. Could this mean upgraded headphones or new audio processing for the Deus 2? 

[F350Platinum]

Would be nice if they made some new headphones, I only like the WSA II and WS6.

[Chase Goldman]

I'm thinking mixed mode audio, which if they do it right, would be a fantastic feature.

[Lodge Scent]

Chase what to you mean by mixed mode audio? Would it be something like iron tones in one ear and nonferrous in the other?

[Jeff McClendon]

The ad image posted on Facebook shows blue which probably represents non ferrous coming from most of the ear cup area and red/ferrous coming from the bottom area of the ear cups.

Mixed mode audio would be cool.

A physical design update to the on ear/serious pain in the ear and head backphones would be super cool for my big head👍🏼

[Chase Goldman]

I would also love an aux input jack on the phones to enable me to use them as passive phones plugged into the various wireless receivers I have for other detectors such as the Manticore, Axiom, and generic BT LL (Nokta, forthcoming Vanquish X60 series) as long as the passive audio is decent.  Right now I use Quest Phones that can mount the XP D2 puck directly on the ear cup and plug in my other wireless receivers into the Aux jack on those phones when I switch detectors.  Would hate to lose that functionality as I suspect there won't be third party alternatives to whatever phone design XP has up their sleeve.  Also not sure the existing XP puck physical audio interface can handle a stereo output, so a software update alone may not be sufficient to acquire this new feature.  But who knows...

[Chase Goldman]

1 hour ago, Lodge Scent said:

Chase what to you mean by mixed mode audio? Would it be something like iron tones in one ear and nonferrous in the other?

Yes or as Jeff described, with two speakers in each ear cup.  Right now having ferrous audio gets you close but simultaneous ferrous and non-ferrous audio tones are not possible or undiscriminated/unprocessed audio (i.e., true "all metal") combined with discriminated (typically non-ferrous) tone ID.  It's sort of like the audio equivalent of the Manticore 2D target trace display.

[AV-Digger]

I've been waiting over 10 years for wireless earbuds!

[Chase Goldman]

15 hours ago, AV-Digger said:

I've been waiting over 10 years for wireless earbuds!

No need to wait.  Just plug earbuds into a D2 WS6 or WSA-II puck (with a headphone jack adapter plate), slip it in your shirt pocket and go.  If you want to use true wireless buds, plug a low latency Bluetooth Transmitter into the puck with the adapter, put it anywhere you want and use Low Latency BT true wireless buds.  Today I would invest in Bluetooth LE with the LC3 low latency codec vs. APTX-LL because the latter is slowly phasing out.

See below for two Blutooth LE LC3 products that I verified work together:

 

HomeSpot JY300 Neckband...

https://a.co/d/8vt6FqQ

eppfun Bluetooth 5.4 Audio... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F6V6B898?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share