Have been seeing alot of bad ground measurements with the updates on the legend.
Now people are complaining about the speaker blowing up
On them.
I thought I had made my mind up in getting one but I may hold off a bit now to see if they pan things out.
here is my take
I have posted some things up on a couple of other forum about the ground balance, and you have to keep in mind I mainly detect for gold nuggets in Arizona
The 1.08 now 1.09 changed things in the Legend that are a bit confusing for me and quite different from any other detector I have ever used, it is not a bad thing.
for instance with the 1.08 now 1.09 they added a mineralization meter which really works pretty good in the fact there is two sides to that mineral meter left side shows how much iron particles are in the ground you are detecting the right side is a salt content meter, they also added a iron filter and stability setting which I am finding works great for me on the ground I am detecting they added a adjustable iron bias (Filter) which I am basically learning what it does, the adjustable iron filter can affect things tremendously
I am new to true multi frequency detectors, the closet detector i have used to a multi frequency detector was the Xterra 705 there is a huge difference between the 705 and the legend, I personally was really skeptical about a true multi frequency detector, that was the Equinox nothing about the nox ever made me feel like I had to have one or needed one to keep up with my buddies in detecting, then Nokta /Macro 4 years later announced the Legend, there was something about the Legend that my gut was telling me to purchase one,so I did a pre order
I am finding the Legend to be a real fun detector to run, a few of my buddies I detect with all use the Equinox 600 and 800 what we find when we do detect together is depth wise the Legend and the nox 800 are very close, we all also notice that the legend runs much smoother in high EMI areas and does not false as much on nails as much as the Nox.
as far as the ground balance what I am seeing in the legend on the ground i detect is this, and I cannot say it is an issue yet, when I do ground balance I detect on extremely mineralized ground for instance on the mineral meter left side on the ground I detect is usually maxed (10 Bars), with the salt side of the meter bouncing from 1-3 my GB values Multi 1 park and field mode is at 89, in Multi 2 GB values run 55, one of the questions I have on the ground balance is should there be that big of a variance in GB values between M1 and M2
the other thing I am noticing with the ground balance values is a lot of times on the same ground my GB values start reading 1-10 usually ending at 0-3, while two other detectors are still reading in the 80s-90s on GB values, is it a problem I really cannot say yet, when it does this my Legend seems to still stay stable so it has not caused an issue detecting yet, being a nugget ditectorist I have to know my detector is running as stable as it can run, so yes I have questions on the GB values, I know a lot of users of the Legend are coin and jewelry detectorist maybe they do not need as stable of a detector as a nugget ditectorist don't really know the answer to that one either
I have no regrets in my decision to purchase the Legend, in fact I like it so much I purchased a second Legend for my wife to learn on, I also feel the more things that are reported about the Legend the better, in my opinion it is like we are all involved in making the Legend the best it can be and the more of us that reports small problems it just gives Nokta/Macro motivation to give us the updates which by the way I feel the updates are a good thing each and every time a new update has come out I have installed them, what I am finding the Legend is getting better and better, I find I can detect some of the areas that i was previously only able to use a PI (Pulse Induction) detector because of high mineral content I am now able to use a VLF detector which just so happens to be the Legend rite now
My one hope is that Nokta/Macro does not update to the point that it dumb's the Legend down.
I apologize for the long reply
