Need Help

[shovel full]

I am thinking about purchasing a quattro. I will primary hunting relic and coin/jewlry. Occasionally I will prospect and beach hunt as well. I am wondering if this is the machine for me. A person told me that this detector would be perfect as long as I get the 4 by 7 inch coil. Should I go all out and get the explorer 2? Does it go any deeper than the Quattro or will it detect objects any better? From what I have been reading they both operate on the same fbs and 28 freq. Does this mean that the quattro is just as powerful as the explorer? Any information that anyone can give will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Rick(ND)]

The Explorer was out first while the Quattro is only little over a year old. I feel the Quattro may have some changes the Explorer don't have yet in the circuity, more advanced. The Explorer you can fine tune more than the Quattro, so the Quattro may not work as good depending on where you are. For me the tones on the Quattro were too high and could not be adjusted like I can with the Explorer. With the Explorer XS II you can get both he conductivity and the ferrous of your target, the Quattro you can not. The Quattro has a slow recovery speed which can give some a tough time when you have a lot of trash around, but find this good too depending on the site as I have seen the Quattro lock on to some of the deeper targets better than the Explorer does.I have also see with the slow recovery you have to go slower and when you get what you think is a good target have to raise the coil so it cant see any target and the threshold reset, then go back over the target to see if it is still a good target.

Rick

 

[shovel full]

Thanks for your help.There sure is alot of detectors to look at out there today.Is there a detector that you would Recommend?

 

[shovel full]

I'm in the middle of deciding between these two excellent machines Minelab Sovereign GT and Whites MXT. will primary hunting relic and coin/jewlry and Occasionally I will prospect and(fresh water) beach hunt as well. Any information that anyone can give will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Rick(ND)]

Both are my favorite detectors, the MXT is the best Whites I have ever used in my 32 years of detecting. The Sovereigns are my favorite detector to take to those cleaned out areas to get what others leave.
The MXT is the easiest to use and you can go so much faster with this detector over the Sovereigns. very easy to set up and use and i like the relic mode so i have 2 different tones and check all high tones signals.The Sovereign GT you have to swing the coil slower and listen closer to the signals as it does see more and give you a lot of info about the target it see, and let you decide to dig or not. The MXT gives you info too, but the detector mostly decides what to dig and what not too.
The GT will take you a little longer to learn and get used to, so you do need patience, but once you have learned this detector you will do well.
Both are great detectors and depending on how easy you want the detector to be as the MXT is the easiest to use, but the GT will do better once you learn it.

Rick

 

[beachguy777]

Dear shovel full. I thought you were trying to decide between the Quatro and the Explorer. Now it sounds like your looking at the Soverign and a Whites MXT. Not sure about either of these last two, only because I've never owned one, but I don't think you can go wrong with the Quatro or the Explorer. Some more bucks involved, but I say this because I own the Quatro and it just kicks ass, in my opinion anywhere except totally iorn soil like in Georgia or some places. You should read the earlier posts in the Quatro froum for some great, hands on info about the Quatro. It probably goes as deep as the Explorer but the Explorer has the two numeric readouts for conductivity and ferous, which gives you more information. I'd love to get an Explorer some day, but I'm totally happy with the Quatro anywhere I've been, from parks to beaches. It's a GREAT beach machine, no problems with falsing or mineralization or salt water. The multi frequencies seem to take care of that. You should read everything you can by Mike from Virginia Beach. He's owned both of them and you'll get dead on straight info from his posts. Check int to that and it sounds like your looking at some of the best detectors in the world right now, in my opinion.:|:O

 

[au4greg]

I prefer the Quattro Interface which is more user friendly an allows for easy notching etc.

The Quattro compared to the Explorer II is about 5% less sensitivity at max, but in this area both detectors would be unstable for 95% of the world.

Best to optimize your sensitivity for no reactivity to the ground conditions. The HIGHER the Ground Noise, the LOWER the sensitivity.

 

[au4greg]

You changed the Flow of the Thread when you brought prospecting into it.

With that said, in my opinion, the MXT is all around the Best 'cross-over' detector; an excellent coin hunter as well as VLF prospecting unit.

The MXT when it comes to very small chains and diamond tennis bracelets will respond to these difficult to find items in the discrimination mode. I recently recovered a lost yellow gold diamond tennis bracelet using a Tesoro Vaquero with the discriminator set for Iron Ignore. When I got it home, I ran many of my models over it. Most would not hear it including the Sovereign GT, Excalibur 800, Sovereign Elite with 5" Sun Ray. MXT had no problem responding with a smooth definite signal in the motion discriminate mode. I did not have my Quattro available to test it over that same diamond tennis bracelet.... maybe next time.