I hunted for three hours in a fresh water lake. After all the talk about how these headphones aren't loud enough, I had the volume limit at 30. It didn't take me long to realize it was WAY too loud. I realize that I wasn't hunting in the surf with a lot of ambient noise, but I have no need for them to be louder in the fresh water environment. As for the detector, I really like it as a water machine. I have owned and hunted with the Excaliburs a lot. The CTX is superior in every way. And the Excal was my favorite water detector. Since I will not be diving deeper than 10 ft, I see no reason to own the Excal any more. I love the audio. I was in combined and really liked it. There is so much more information sent to your ears with the CTX over the Excal. Also, do not worry about depth. It's at least as deep as the Excal 1000. In fact, I think it's deeper, but I want to get more hunts in with it before I say for sure.
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I made my first hunt with the Banana Headphones Today
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Big Boys Hobbies
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Nice review, thanks!
mtwolf2270
Member
I wonder if some machines are having issue cause at 30 I can barely hear my threshold with the yellows and if the lake is packed and alot of noise forget it. I wonder if this is something that ML can address why some cannot hear well with the yellow's. At 30 on the standard headphones it is too loud so I know it is not my ears.
Regarding the Koss waterproof headphones.. Many people that have used them on the Excalibur and found them not loud enough and never gave them a chance on the CTX..The FBS machines, having the gain adjustment adjusted properly do not need as much volume to hear the deep targets like on a BBS machine.. wildherre
mtwolf2270
Member
I miss spoke the threshold is set to where I can barely hear it which is how I run it on my land phones. When the volume limit I set to 20 on land is as loud as I can take. Yes rasing the threshold helps some but it can affect hearing targets like smaller gold and silver jewerly. The sound to me is so muffled on the CTX at same threshold or even at 40 that it almost sounds as if the sound is coming from outside the phones. my hunting buddy hunts a excal with same phones. Ii had him play with it and listen and his exact words" Holy s*%t if that is as good as it gets then that sucks" if there is any outside noise forget it you have to hunt by screen only which is hard this is 40 plus hours in the water.
mtwolf2270
Member
I have pmed with Randy and I may very well have found out why I am having trouble see page 22 in the manual I looked at it but it took Randy to get me to understand. You have to set up wireless settings external, internal and wired headphones seperately. So I will check this out and see this maybe why some of us are having issues USER ERROR. So if it fixs it I will eat my crow :blush: