SlawSniper
New Member
Hello,
So, I had an old Whites DFX for several years. I tried upgrading and sold the DFX and switched to the Etrac and I got burned. Two faulty units from ML and I surrendered.
After that, I traveled constantly for work and just faded out of the hobby. With Covid, my work travel has come to a complete stop, and my wife and I travel to sunny beach places to escape Cleveland weather a couple of times each year (Cozumel, here we come!)
I'd like a detector that is at home in the dirt and functions reasonably well on the wet and dry beach (doesn't have to be in the water). Clad, silver, and I'd like the machine to have gold as an option. Not necessarily prospecting here in Ohio but still.
I'm in a 3-way split with a Deus, the Nox 800, and a much simpler AT Max. I'm hesitant with the quality issues I had with the ML (experienced e-trac users swapped me and confirmed they were both wonky for different reasons. One was too loud, the other didn't say much at all. Tried swapping coils with no success).
It doesn't matter which machine I'm going to end up with, I know by the time May comes and we leave I won't have enough time on any machine to be even remotely good with it, but with forums and videos showing settings as baselines for beaches, I'm hopeful to muddle my way through a necklace and a couple of rings I'm already familiar with the hobby and know I enjoy it so I'm not looking for an entry-level rig. I'd rather find the right one to grow into. I know the Deus is a machine that I could spend 2 years learning and still be a dummy. The AT Pro seems much more straightforward, leaving me more time to focus on the peculiar responses to similar targets rather than the 3 million settings (and the peculiar responses to similar targets) with the Deus but isn't very strong for gold (from what I've read). The NOX 800 sounds like a great middle-ground, but it sounds like they still have more than their fair share of quality issues and I have low patience for that. Please, share some wisdom. I'm thick-skinned, so don't hold any punches.
So, I had an old Whites DFX for several years. I tried upgrading and sold the DFX and switched to the Etrac and I got burned. Two faulty units from ML and I surrendered.
After that, I traveled constantly for work and just faded out of the hobby. With Covid, my work travel has come to a complete stop, and my wife and I travel to sunny beach places to escape Cleveland weather a couple of times each year (Cozumel, here we come!)
I'd like a detector that is at home in the dirt and functions reasonably well on the wet and dry beach (doesn't have to be in the water). Clad, silver, and I'd like the machine to have gold as an option. Not necessarily prospecting here in Ohio but still.
I'm in a 3-way split with a Deus, the Nox 800, and a much simpler AT Max. I'm hesitant with the quality issues I had with the ML (experienced e-trac users swapped me and confirmed they were both wonky for different reasons. One was too loud, the other didn't say much at all. Tried swapping coils with no success).
It doesn't matter which machine I'm going to end up with, I know by the time May comes and we leave I won't have enough time on any machine to be even remotely good with it, but with forums and videos showing settings as baselines for beaches, I'm hopeful to muddle my way through a necklace and a couple of rings I'm already familiar with the hobby and know I enjoy it so I'm not looking for an entry-level rig. I'd rather find the right one to grow into. I know the Deus is a machine that I could spend 2 years learning and still be a dummy. The AT Pro seems much more straightforward, leaving me more time to focus on the peculiar responses to similar targets rather than the 3 million settings (and the peculiar responses to similar targets) with the Deus but isn't very strong for gold (from what I've read). The NOX 800 sounds like a great middle-ground, but it sounds like they still have more than their fair share of quality issues and I have low patience for that. Please, share some wisdom. I'm thick-skinned, so don't hold any punches.