ixer
Jr. Member
- Joined
- Dec 11, 2011
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- Location
- Southern Indiana
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher F2 & White's XLT Spectrum E-Series
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
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Currently i'm using a Fisher F-2, there are some things about it that i don't care for and i'm wanting to step up to a better machine. If you must know what i don't care for, here's the list.
1. The Headphone jack is located low on the machine and faces away from you, making it difficult to hunt with headphones on.
2. The coil plug in is so shrouded it makes it difficult change coils, i dont like having to use needle nose pliers to change coils.
3. only has 4 tones, and no thresh hold tone. I used a buddies XLT and really liked the thresh hold and all the tones.
4. With the brains and the batteries located up top it gets a bit cumbersome after swinging for extended periods of time.
5. No real calibration to the "depth gauge"
The 2 machines that seem to peak my interest the most are the Minelabs X-Terra 705 and the Fisher F70. I generally coin hunt in the Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky areas. I can't seem to find a side by side comparison of these 2 machines, and would like the opinions of those that have used both extensively. Are they "good" machines? Am I wasting my time looking at them? From what I have been able to gather so far they both have very accessible headphone jacks, unshrouded coil plugs, lightweight / good balance, and more then 4 tone id's. I'm not sure if either have an audible thresh hold tone, or how accurate the depth gauge is (but are atleast calibrated to give some idea of target depth). Any help / opinions would be very helpful!!
Thanks,
Rob
1. The Headphone jack is located low on the machine and faces away from you, making it difficult to hunt with headphones on.
2. The coil plug in is so shrouded it makes it difficult change coils, i dont like having to use needle nose pliers to change coils.
3. only has 4 tones, and no thresh hold tone. I used a buddies XLT and really liked the thresh hold and all the tones.
4. With the brains and the batteries located up top it gets a bit cumbersome after swinging for extended periods of time.
5. No real calibration to the "depth gauge"
The 2 machines that seem to peak my interest the most are the Minelabs X-Terra 705 and the Fisher F70. I generally coin hunt in the Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky areas. I can't seem to find a side by side comparison of these 2 machines, and would like the opinions of those that have used both extensively. Are they "good" machines? Am I wasting my time looking at them? From what I have been able to gather so far they both have very accessible headphone jacks, unshrouded coil plugs, lightweight / good balance, and more then 4 tone id's. I'm not sure if either have an audible thresh hold tone, or how accurate the depth gauge is (but are atleast calibrated to give some idea of target depth). Any help / opinions would be very helpful!!
Thanks,
Rob