My Deus arrived yesterday and I got out for about 90 minutes with it today. Now I have heard all of the stories about "my new detector made all of my old sites seem new again" and frankly didn't pay them much attention. Today I took my new Deus to a site where an old house was torn down many years ago. This is the site where I have taken every new detector that I have owned, I have hunted this site with a MXT, DFX, E-Trac, XLT and an F75....it was hunted EXTENSIVELY with my MXT (or so I thought). I read the manual, set it to Basic 1 and took it out. I made the decision to not memorize which coins read which numbers on the control unit, rather, I simply listened for good tones. Below are the pictures of my finds, there is a small gold ring, four indian heads and two wheats. One Indian is an 1864, another is an 1871 which is apparently a fairly key year. I only dug 4 deep square nails, one electrical terminal and a piece of a mechanical pencil so I wasn't fooled very often. All in all I like it a lot, I think my time with an MXT helped me to be ready to listen for good signals. I can't say that I understand everything it is doing or any of the adjustments but if you listen for good tones in the Basic programs you can be successful even in a heavily hunted site.