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a lot of omegas for sale lately

With skilled dirt fishers like Monte, Brian, Tn Jim and others singing its praises, a lot of forum readers have no doubt been influenced by their posts and bought an Omega.

But no detector is liked by everybody.

And if you follow posts for a while on the forums, you can see that there's a percentage of us dirt fishers who change detectors more often than Grandpa changed his underwear...

A lot of them up for sale used probably just means a lot have been sold new.

I have an F5 which is the Omega's older brother and it's an excellent detector. I have no doubt the O8 is an excellent one too.

Life is short, Jimmy. Jump off that fence and go for it!
 
If Monte says it's good, you know it's true. If I were in the market for another detector, I would look long and hard at some of these used Omegas.
 
possible "weak" volume at depth MAY be the cause!

(h.h!)
j.t.
 
Wouldn't nice headphones like the Sun Ray Pro Golds increase the volume of those weak, deep signals?
 
You can't rely on e- bay or similar sources where mainly dealers are selling their products. If you're looking at a Forum Classified section where detector owners have bought, used/tried a model and are now selling or trading it, then we must not be checking the same popular forums. I just read your post and looked over tow of the most popular Classified Forums and only noted two Omegas for sale. One. w/3 coils, was supposedly new and only checked out indoors and not used outside.

To me, that sort of a "detector test" falls way short of suggesting the Omega is not a great detector. To learn and know any make or model you have to really learn it, use it in a variety of hunting applications, and then YOU will know how it appeals to YOU and can decide to keep it and go hunting, or sell/trade it and just try another (and another and another as so many seem to do).

Besides, at some point I'll probably pick up another Omega because that way I can mount my 5" DD on one and my 10" concentric on the other and have either one available for the times when I want to mount up the 11" DD for very open site hunting. If you think there are a lot and you see a good deal, scoop it up and give it a good try yourself! I don't see that many offered, especially compared with more of some popular models from some major detector manufacturers.

Monte
 
There's a few for sale at findmall and I don't see any (used) ones for sale on Ebay.

The thing I would look at though, is bad comments. I honestly haven't seen any. That is what you should be looking for, not how many are for sale (which is not a lot). I see a few used E-Tracs for sale on ebay, does that mean they aren't any good?

I was a T2 user for 3 years and I sold it after trying my Omega 8000 for 1 weekend! (But I am into coins and not relics). I put off buying a 1400 Euro Deus (here in Germany) cause I'm having so much fun with my Omega.
 
jimmy try to buy the three combo pack if you can. I bought a 3 pack for my self, then the wife decided she wanted an O8K and i got her a 2 coil pack at a good price but wish I had waited for a 3 coil pack to come up for sale. It's ahrd to find a used 5" coil for sale.
 
I have an Omega 8000 FS/FT, not because there's a problem, I'm just in the process of
wanting to try a bunch. So far, the Omega ranks at the top of what I've tried, about
8 or so detectors in the past two weeks. After my curiosity/obsession runs out, I'm
probably going to stick to an Omega and a G2.
 
If i was to buy another detector i would get the fisher f75 special edition or the t2 special edition.
I use the regular T2 now but from what i hear there is no deeper easier to use detector than those 2.
Im thinking about buying a f75 special edition only because i want a backlight.I would buy the T2 special edition if it had a backlight.
John
 
I really haven't seen any more Omega's for sale then any other brand/model. I know a lot of guys just like to try out new model issues and many of these end up for sale in pretty short order. And, of course, not every detector is for every detectorist. My Omega didn't actually blow me away right out of the box, either, but after continuing to work with it and getting to know it better, I now like it very, very much. I, too, would recommend the three coil package. All three coils are great and all necessary,IMHO. Like Monte, I also have learned to like the 10" coil a bunch. Go for it! HH jim tn
 
Yeah, but what about how he hunts? I started with the Nautilus IIB, probably the deepest detector out there but it wasn't as good at separating. I have used a T2 for 3 years and I really liked it but after a week with the Omega 8000, for coins, it is superior to me (and to quite a few others). I am going to wait and see what the next big release is from Fisher, if they gear it more towards coin hunters (like an Omega 1000 Ultimate) then I'm all over it. But right now, I like the Omega better in iron for coins than the T2, hands down. I found that out after one weekend, honest truth. My GB is usually around 65 and not to much mineralization and full of iron.
 
Monte said:
One. w/3 coils, was supposedly new and only checked out indoors and not used outside.

To me, that sort of a "detector test" falls way short of suggesting the Omega is not a great detector. To learn and know any make or model you have to really learn it, use it in a variety of hunting applications, and then YOU will know how it appeals to YOU and can decide to keep it and go hunting, or sell/trade it and just try another (and another and another as so many seem to do).
Monte
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Very good point, my O8 does not air test well indoors, where some of my other machines do, but it finds 8" deep silver dimes in the dirt just fine. Yes the modulated audio is weaker at depth, but something I have noticed is that it almost has a two volume audio, loud on shallow targets, and targets ~ 6" or deeper weaker, BUT I've noticed that once it gets that weaker response (like older analog units do with coins at depth) the audio doesn't get weaker and weaker as the coin gets deeper, it's just a muted audio response to alert the operator that it's a deeper coin. Maybe others have different experiences with the audio modulation.
 
It's a bit like asking if I buy this here paint brush, will I be the next Picasso? It's an art/science/ability/locality thing. It's different for everybody, even two people side by side with the same tools. So go seek with whatever brush you hold and hopefully you'll find what you seek. True art does not depend on the specific set of tools available.

-Ed
 
Brian, I noticed, or think I do, the same thing about the audio on deeper targets, too. It seems like the audio weakens on a target to about a certain depth and then doesn't get any weaker with deeper targets. That was one of my biggest concerns right off with the Omega and it seemingly not having much depth. Audio on 4"-5" targets had weakened enough that I felt the machine wouldn't be able to detect 7" or 8' coins sized targets. When I finally did dig a couple of deeper targets I realized the audio wasn't any weaker. Or, so it seemed to me, anyway. Hh jim tn
 
Read Monte's reply to something I asked him regarding the modes. He goes into a lot of detail, not like him. :rofl:
Remember, the threshold is built into the gain from around 70 on up. d1 and d2 is deeper but softer on the deep stuff than d3 and d4.

Montes Description
 
It maybe because of the new gold machine coming out
 
jim tn said:
Brian, I noticed, or think I do, the same thing about the audio on deeper targets, too. It seems like the audio weakens on a target to about a certain depth and then doesn't get any weaker with deeper targets. That was one of my biggest concerns right off with the Omega and it seemingly not having much depth. Audio on 4"-5" targets had weakened enough that I felt the machine wouldn't be able to detect 7" or 8' coins sized targets. When I finally did dig a couple of deeper targets I realized the audio wasn't any weaker. Or, so it seemed to me, anyway. Hh jim tn
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Jim that's exactly how it worked for me. The first time I got a 6" wheatie the audio was so faint I thought I wouldn't be able to hear anything deeper, but I found an 8" deep Barber dime a few weeks later :thumbup: One thing I really like on the O8 is the TID is stable and accurate at depth, especially on dime sized targets which, unfortunately I do not experience on my F75 LTD (in my soil) so I believe I'm missing a lot of silver dimes deeper then 7-8" with the LTD.
 
My LTD will hit most 7-8" dimes fairly easy, usually. Those that are slanted or on edge, sometimes I have to work with a bit. I do, though, like the stable tid of the Omega, but my LTd is definitely deeper. And, it should be, for the difference in price. HH jim tn
 
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