Where is Garrett right now?

[John-Edmonton]

Wouldn't it be nice if Garrett came out with a simple, analog detector. A machine whereas you add more discrimination without losing depth. A nice crisp audio, where the user can guess better and get a better probability of good targets then all the technology put into chips. Like the older Garretts, Fishers, Tesoros, Wilsons, just to name a few. I have heard many people comment that they could tell a silver dime from a silver quarter from a silver ring just by the sound of the audio many years ago. Sometimes the audio created from all the eddies produced and picked up by the coil, create their own language, which can be learned over time. Old guitar amplifiers have a much preferred analog sound over the new digital ones. There are apps now, which can turn digital audio back to analog. Maybe they can be applied to a metal detector?

Simply put, a nice simple metal detector, with today's depth capabilities, with a simple discrimination system (notching option), optional Proportional Audio and a nice crisp analog audio which would allow the user to learn and utilize it to make better choices to dig/not dig, instead of using a huge cluster of bells and whistles created during the last 25 years. There's a reason why many things go through cycles. The K.I.S.S. principle usually trumps over too much confusion.

 

[Rock Jock]

Wouldn't it be nice if Garrett came out with a simple, analog detector. A machine whereas you add more discrimination without losing depth. A nice crisp audio, where the user can guess better and get a better probability of good targets then all the technology put into chips. Like the older Garretts, Fishers, Tesoros, Wilsons, just to name a few. I have heard many people comment that they could tell a silver dime from a silver quarter from a silver ring just by the sound of the audio many years ago. Sometimes the audio created from all the eddies produced and picked up by the coil, create their own language, which can be learned over time. Old guitar amplifiers have a much preferred analog sound over the new digital ones. There are apps now, which can turn digital audio back to analog. Maybe they can be applied to a metal detector?

Simply put, a nice simple metal detector, with today's depth capabilities, with a simple discrimination system (notching option), optional Proportional Audio and a nice crisp analog audio which would allow the user to learn and utilize it to make better choices to dig/not dig, instead of using a huge cluster of bells and whistles created during the last 25 years. There's a reason why many things go through cycles. The K.I.S.S. principle usually trumps over too much confusion.

Wouldn't it be nice if Garrett decided to upgrade the equivalent simplicity of the Minelab Excalibur II, currently the premier underwater metal detector, to incorporate modern systems(25 years old???), make it at least as leak proof and reduce its weight and cost?

 

[Cherry Picker]

Wouldn't it be nice if Garrett came out with a simple, analog detector. A machine whereas you add more discrimination without losing depth. A nice crisp audio, where the user can guess better and get a better probability of good targets then all the technology put into chips. Like the older Garretts, Fishers, Tesoros, Wilsons, just to name a few. I have heard many people comment that they could tell a silver dime from a silver quarter from a silver ring just by the sound of the audio many years ago. Sometimes the audio created from all the eddies produced and picked up by the coil, create their own language, which can be learned over time. Old guitar amplifiers have a much preferred analog sound over the new digital ones. There are apps now, which can turn digital audio back to analog. Maybe they can be applied to a metal detector?

Simply put, a nice simple metal detector, with today's depth capabilities, with a simple discrimination system (notching option), optional Proportional Audio and a nice crisp analog audio which would allow the user to learn and utilize it to make better choices to dig/not dig, instead of using a huge cluster of bells and whistles created during the last 25 years. There's a reason why many things go through cycles. The K.I.S.S. principle usually trumps over too much confusion.

That would be nice.

I still miss the good old TR Discriminator myself. It had such a good feel for targets. Not all that deep, but was very easy to tell trash from treasure. That and the skill it took to keep that coil as steady as possible, but you could manipulate target response by lifting or lowering the coil a smidge.

 

[John-Edmonton]

Wouldn't it be nice if Garrett decided to upgrade the equivalent simplicity of the Minelab Excalibur II, currently the premier underwater metal detector, to incorporate modern systems(25 years old???), make it at least as leak proof and reduce its weight and cost?

I bet that would turn a few heads!

 

[sumrtym]

Fisher isn't going anywhere. Bounty Hunters sell tons in the big box stores.

 

[The Lama]

I think it's coming soon and it will be very good but i hope people don't whine when it's not as cheap as a detector made in a 3rd world country .I am willing to pay the little bit extra to support American manufacturing ,remember how embarrassing it was during the pandemic when we had to beg China for ppe .

 

[Dflan83]

I think it's coming soon and it will be very good but i hope people don't whine when it's not as cheap as a detector made in a 3rd world country .I am willing to pay the little bit extra to support American manufacturing ,remember how embarrassing it was during the pandemic when we had to beg China for ppe .

agreed and I am ok with this as long as feature for feature it can match a modern machine. Waterproof, wireless, multifreqency

 

[james45]

Since they acquired Whites and got into their hidden technology I think they have had to re think all their old technology. The pinpointer TRX is one example. Maybe they will come up with a few extra bucks and put the X employees of Whites to work and get their train back on the tracks

Garrett needs to bring back whites tecknology ! Bring back the top whites detectors for us old dudes
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[Cherry Picker]

Garrett needs to bring back whites tecknology ! Bring back the top whites detectors for us old dudes
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I ran into a guy hunting a school parking lot with a Whites MXT today. He had a handful of coinage. I used the Spectrum, then DFX, then Vision, then V3i for many years. The Spectrum series may not have been the deepest on the block, but they could find the coins.

 

[longbow62]

So I've mentioned this before. I tried detecting for the first time in 1998. I bought an XLT. I did not find hardly anything with it back then so it sat the closet only getting it out every once and awhile over the next almost 20 years. I got it back out in spring 2017 because I found a cistern in the woods at the end of my street. I found 2 of my oldest coins still to this day with that XLT. As a matter of fact the only 2 coins I ever found at that site. I took the Impact, Deus I, Equinox, back there many times as I upgraded and never found another coin. One was a 1867 2 Cent Piece, the other was a 1851 seated dime. Had I not found those coins honestly I would probably not be still detecting today. Between then and when I upgraded to the Nokta Impact I found several silvers with the XLT. I actually had a 4 silver day with it in a friends yard. The Whites Spectrum XLT will always be a special detector to me.

 

[Coin-Saver]

The MXT is a special detector also for those who figured it out. First chance I get to buy my old one back it's mine again.

 

[diggin4clad]

A lot of people are waiting for the next latest and greatest detector to come out and help them find targets that their previous detector can't find. Good luck.........

 

[metaladdict]

They are in the works of releasing a new one, we will wait and see!

 

[james45]

Well,if we old dudes run into trouble we can always go back to the compadre. As of now just pick up a real cherry Fisher 1266 x good mercy if came up with a nice silver ring.