Thinking of upgrading my detector.need your opinions

[Ricky1601 aka pull tab king]

Hi I currently use a whites xlt, and am concidering upgrading to a dfx. will probally cost 4-500$ to upgrade with small coils and accessories. I have been pretty happy with the xlt but am told that I would find more gold with the dfx. do any of you think I should go with the dfx, or stick with the xlt longer? Also I Usually use factory preset settings unless i'm on a club hunt so how much better is the dfx over the xlt?......thanks in advance for all your help and HH

 

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[The Beep Goes On]

I've had an xlt and currently use a dfx. I find that the dfx is more stable. A lot of the xlt's beeped when the coil hit something, but I haven't experienced this problem with the dfx. The different frequency modes on the dfx can help you deal with different soil conditions and can help when hunting for certain items or in a lot of iron or trash. The balancing protocol uses both frequencies to balance mineralization and salt.

Personally, I would wait. Supposedly, Whites is coming out with a successor to the dfx...

HH!
TBGO

 

[rvbvetter]

I've never used an XLT so I'm no help there. But I have the DFX and it's a nice machine. Sometimes though, I find myself spending too much time in the field programing this and unprograming that. When I should just set it and go with it.
I see your in the bay area. Where at? I'm also in the bay area. Contra Costa
I would be happy to let you try out and use my DFX for a while so you can see how you like it before you buy one
Just give me a PM if your interested and we'll meet up. HH

 

[catlord17]

You really didn't give us enough information to know if you really would find more gold with the DFX.

I'm a fellow XLT user, and never had a DFX, but how much gold you find isn't necessarily primarily your detector. In the hands of a novice, neither the XLT or the DFX would out do one another, I'd be willing to bet, because the novice wouldn't be very knowledgeable about how to swing, where to swing, or what to dig. I don't think you're a novice, but there's only two situations I can think of that would produce more gold with the DFX based on what I've read:

1. You've hunted out all the gold you can find with the XLT, and depth alone is going to improve your results, or
2. You need the DFX to hunt beaches more efficiently in salty sand.

Are you finding gold consistently with the XLT? If you're finding gold even at depth, then perhaps the DFX would probably get you some deeper gold. If you think you're going to find gold where you never found it before just by switching detectors, I'd be a bit skeptical. If the latter is the case, consider:

1. How you detect, and
2. Where you detect.

Hope this helps a bit. I couldn't say what I'd do in your shoes because I don't know enough about your situation.