Charlie P. (NY) said:
I've only briefly played with a DFX so I can't say, either. The F-75 runs pretty good with the factory defaults, and whenever I set a notch I "reboot" the next outing to make sure I've cleared everything. From there I can set all the modes/tones/sensitivity and discrimination in maybe 20 seconds to start off again. I'm pretty sure the DFX takes a lot longer than that to pass through every setting. Great feature of the F-75 is that the menu options are all on the display at once so you can run down through them and you only need open the ones you want to alter.
If you're getting 20 signals every sweep try lowering the sensitivity. There is also a "buggy" range of discrimination, between 6 and 19, where a higher gain circuit is enabled according to a couple of the reviewers. If your unit chitters and chatters move the discrimination to 5 or below for added depth or 20 & higher to screen out iron & nails, etc. Unfortunately, the default is 10 and that's smack dab in the middle of the "hot" range. I've been running mine at 0 and relying on the VDI to tell me what I'm sweeping over.
A small coil is on my wish list. Hopefully soon.