Headphones? Yes or no?

[NightHawk88]

I have heard many people say that you will only hear deep signal with headphones...

Is this true?

Personally I have used headphones in the past but also find them somewhat cumbersome with digging and not being aware of the environment around and all this.

Thoughts?

 

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[Linesider]

Only deep?? Nooooo. Might hear deeper. In the sense if u didn’t have them on u might miss a light bleep. Maybe coin on side. Little deeper than average. Might miss that with ambient noise. Wind,animals.. funny enough i cant wear headsets in any other part of life. I have to be aware ant anll times. Only MD allows me to disconnect. But I’m usually beach hunting and can keep head on swivel most time. Hard for someone to sneak up on the beaches.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Without headphones the ambient noise will mask the faint targets. I always hunt with headphones on I primarily hunt beaches, many times late at night, I'm also always armed, usually with a .45, especially at night.

 

[pepperj]

I have heard many people say that you will only hear deep signal with headphones...

Is this true?

Personally I have used headphones in the past but also find them somewhat cumbersome with digging and not being aware of the environment around and all this.

Thoughts?

Been wearing headphones for 50 yrs.
Cumbersome?
Probably some are too tight, big, some flop, some produce poor quality sound.

Though just this past year my headphones went dead on a hunt.

So I used the speaker.
Cars, trucks, trains blanked out the speaker.
So I went to a back field site.
Traffic wasn't an issue, but trains and the slight breeze was.
I still found a couple Half Penny Tokens.

But I also struggled hearing the tones correctly.
Hence I dug some iron as well.

Now for the part of the environment around you.
Half cup one ear then to make the nervous feeling of what might be around you go away.
If I can hear birds singing, mosquitoes buzzing, Chipmunks running through fallen leaves 200 ft away.
I'm not worried about it blocking the environment.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I never used them but just started. I have poor hearing and should have been using them all along. The wind is a big factor here and the headphones end the annoyance and also keep my ears warm.

 

[Tony in SC]

First couple of years I didn't think I needed them. Tried a set in the 70's and realized what I had been missing. Don't buy cheap ones.

 

[pepperj]

First couple of years I didn't think I needed them. Tried a set in the 70's and realized what I had been missing. Don't buy cheap ones.

The 1st White's detector didn't have a jack for headphones.
Then by the mid 70s they never came off the head.

 

[Tony in SC]

The 1st White's detector didn't have a jack for headphones.
Then by the mid 70s they never came off the head.

This post is starting to bring back memories! The first detector I used was a whites 63 or 66. Big long box, lots of heavy batteries. Next was the Coin Master IV. The most high tech thing on the market at the time. That machine got me hooked for life>

 

[pepperj]

This post is starting to bring back memories! The first detector I used was a whites 63 or 66. Big long box, lots of heavy batteries. Next was the Coin Master IV. The most high tech thing on the market at the time. That machine got me hooked for life>

GoldMaster, 14 AA batteries, just metal/mineral setting.
We'd use the mineral setting and sounded like the threshold was fairly high.
When it stopped we dug.
Great depth over the metal setting.
But lots of iron digging.

 

[GaRebel1861]

If I use them, I only have one ear covered so I can be aware of my surroundings.

 

[RustyGold]

Headphones always!