Advice Equinox 800 or another Detector

[vferrari]

Read This post and decide:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/e...arily-most-important-thing-missing-600-a.html

You may miss the ability to set up non ferrous tone breaks, the 600 backlight is too bright, I find I miss the User Profile button on the 600, less adjustability on recovery speed, and I sometimes use gold mode for relic hunting. So depending on what non-gold hunting you want to do, you may find the 600 a little too restrictive. Also, the included wireless accessories are good and make up for most of the price delta between the 600. I would not have gotten the 600 if I didn't already have the 800.

If you are doing solely salt beach or fresh water hunting or park coin shooting, the 600 should fit the bill.

If you want wireless capability, you can pick up a relatively inexpensive pair of low latency Bluetooth headphones for between $30 to $60 including a clone of the wireless phones included with the 800 (Miccus SR 71's)

HTH

 

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[mibpf]

I would like to thank everyone for your advice and input. I did found a dealer with a NOX 800 in stock. I will probably pull the trigger on my first Minelab tomorrow. I can’t afford much more than that at this time. I will post my personal experience with the new detector when I receive it and start detecting. Anyway, thanks again.

 

[smokeythecat]

Hope you get it. Best advice is not to overtweak the thing at first and use factory presets till you learn it.

 

[flgliderpilot]

Everything I read tells me I don’t need an 800 unless I hunt for gold nuggets. Would you agree with this since you have experience with both?

The more I hunt with my 800 the more I find myself going back to the factory settings. So far the only 800 specific feature I have used consistently is the adjustable screen backlight levels. The 600's screen is just too bright at night, but can be overcome with a red transparency film. It's becoming clear that minelab did indeed do lots of field research to determine the best settings for each mode.

I've played with all of the features of the 800, and am confident that at least for beach hunting (I can't comment on land hunting) I would feel just as productive with the 600 as the 800. The wireless module has never been used btw and seems sort of pointless to me. The only reasonable use I have come up with is for video recording where I could have the sound of the detector going into the camera mic port... because you can run the module and bluetooth headphones simultaneously.

 

[wltdwiz]

no 1 should get a equinox
then i would have the only one

its a great machine

 

[garyd54]

I would like to thank everyone for your advice and input. I did found a dealer with a NOX 800 in stock. I will probably pull the trigger on my first Minelab tomorrow. I can’t afford much more than that at this time. I will post my personal experience with the new detector when I receive it and start detecting. Anyway, thanks again.

Go check out calabashdiggers videos, he has a ton of them testing the nox against most every other machine. I don't think you would be disappointed with the nox. As soon as my knee replacement heals a little more I'm gonna pick one up for myself.

 

[CharlesUpstateNY]

Also, the included wireless accessories are good and make up for most of the price delta between the 600.

Speaking of the 800 wireless headphones, I thought I would HATE the Minelab wireless phones for being a bit too small, but they are actually pretty comfortable.