QUOTE Pete E.
The XP-ORX seems to give one a chance for some gold-finds, as well. Not sure I see that with the 540's from their web site and videos.
I have been watching a series of videos on the XP-ORX in their Skills-School series and I like the ORX more and more...even if it takes a steeper learning curve and I might have "to work" the detector more.[/QUOTE]
I like the ORX a lot for gold prospecting if that is the "gold" you were referring too. The Vanquish 540 is actually fairly sensitive to small gold nuggets also, but its lack of manual ground balance for high mineralization and tendency to mask adjacent targets due to its only average target separation would make it hard to prospect in most places. I can say from experience however, that the Vanquish will hit very hard on gold jewelry, nickels, lead, brass, and the rest of the clad/silver range of targets if they are not literally on top of each other in a spill.
So, if you plan to do some gold prospecting, relic hunting or hit tot lots and parks without a lot of modern trash, the ORX would be a great option.
However, in thick aluminum trash.......it is not much fun since there is no notching on the ORX and the 3 tone audio has a wide mid tone range from roughly 20 to 75 on the target ID scale with plenty of overlapping targets like nickels, some pull tabs and some gold rings which share the same IDs. The way XP did the audio for the two "Coin" modes, they used the audio response feature found on the Deus 1 but with a fixed setting of 4 and it makes most coin sized/pull tab sized targets sound really loud with very little audio modulation, variation or nuance like one finds on the original Deus 1. There are some of the Deus PWM audio harmonics around the edges of the tones but they are not different enough to be very helpful like they are on Deus 1. So to some peoples ears, the three tone audio sounds fairly brash, harsh and not very pleasant. Others really like it.
The XP-ORX seems to give one a chance for some gold-finds, as well. Not sure I see that with the 540's from their web site and videos.
I have been watching a series of videos on the XP-ORX in their Skills-School series and I like the ORX more and more...even if it takes a steeper learning curve and I might have "to work" the detector more.[/QUOTE]
I like the ORX a lot for gold prospecting if that is the "gold" you were referring too. The Vanquish 540 is actually fairly sensitive to small gold nuggets also, but its lack of manual ground balance for high mineralization and tendency to mask adjacent targets due to its only average target separation would make it hard to prospect in most places. I can say from experience however, that the Vanquish will hit very hard on gold jewelry, nickels, lead, brass, and the rest of the clad/silver range of targets if they are not literally on top of each other in a spill.
So, if you plan to do some gold prospecting, relic hunting or hit tot lots and parks without a lot of modern trash, the ORX would be a great option.
However, in thick aluminum trash.......it is not much fun since there is no notching on the ORX and the 3 tone audio has a wide mid tone range from roughly 20 to 75 on the target ID scale with plenty of overlapping targets like nickels, some pull tabs and some gold rings which share the same IDs. The way XP did the audio for the two "Coin" modes, they used the audio response feature found on the Deus 1 but with a fixed setting of 4 and it makes most coin sized/pull tab sized targets sound really loud with very little audio modulation, variation or nuance like one finds on the original Deus 1. There are some of the Deus PWM audio harmonics around the edges of the tones but they are not different enough to be very helpful like they are on Deus 1. So to some peoples ears, the three tone audio sounds fairly brash, harsh and not very pleasant. Others really like it.
