Howdy everyone! I just purchased a V3i Tuesday afternoon, got back home, fooled around with stuff for a couple hours and I happened to notice the rain had almost quit so I walked down my street to a park that I've hammered for years and managed to find a deep wheat, the next day I went to another hammered spot I've also hunted since I started detecting and managed to find a silver ring, the third day I went back down the road (after the rain finally quit again) and found a deep silver quarter. I must say being's this detector is still the same settings out of the box it does a great job. I already have an assortment of coils but they're not V-rated but so far I'm not real impressed with the silver boost on this detector so I think the coils will probably work just fine. I do miss the analog part of my MXT though but I kept it for a backup in case I have problems with the V. As of now I still never changed anything on it except I turned the headphones off cause I didn't buy any (been using corded headphones for over 20 years). I went out a couple more times since then and really loaded up on the clad. I sure can hone in on the bottle caps easily with this machine so my junk digging has dropped drastically and another plus I've dug 4 rings with it and one was a nice sterling. I noticed the D2 coil that came with this machine is thicker and probably a little heavier than the one I've been using on my MXT so I might have to try the old D2 on it and see if it might even lighten up this machine which is already reasonably light for the machine that it is.