OLD school vs NEW school

[R-bass]

I have a question what is better raw horse power simple in use or has the technology in the newer mds really made that big of a leap.
For instance whites xlt vs dfx the same md but just a spin off from the xlt or mxt vs M6 or idx vs idx pro the same md but with a twist.
Look at the prizm line 1 to 5 why? they have a slight option or was this a price option. Now the 6T or is it a mxt/m6 with a twist where is the real advancement over the old school md.
The V3 or is it a dfx/xlt with a color screen i find that a lot of people are looking for the old school mds to make them more powerful. How many can swear about the whites classic mds or the spectrum eagle.
So old school or new school you decide

 

[Hombre]

Hey R-bass

My pick would be an IDX PRO with Mr. Bill's mod. Nice blend of old school "knobs" and new school "lcd flash phase meter" that has the 2 filter slow sweep speed along with fast recovery rate on close together buried objects, It is a really nice detector, but you have to find it on the used market because they are no longer being produced. JMO..................Hombre

 

[crazyman]

I gotta have knobs and I agree with Hombre. My modified IDX Pro's have become my favorite detectors for about 90% of my hunting. Deep, stable, extremely accurate TID and discrimination and when set up right will compete and even better a lot of higher frequency detectors on small gold.

 

[oldandtired]

I think it all depends on the operator, some people like bells and whistles, others don't. Someone who has never detected before may find more with a beep and dig detector, Than the latest and greatest detector not set up right for the area thier hunting. I myself like knobs, a quick glance tells me where there set at, no menu scrolling to change a setting, and a good digger is still the best target id out there.

Don't get me wrong I've swung the coil over targets, checking from different angles, changing settings, checking the display, even doing a little Minelab wiggle now and then, and usually ended up retrieving the target anyway. If the detector had just went beep, it would have been in my pouch a lot sooner, even it it was just a bent up pulltab.

 

[nw1886]

There is a lot said for digging most stuff. If I thought back on all the stuff that I wouldn't have dug just by leaving it up to screen info....some of my favorite finds would have been left in the dirt. Was much of it valuable? Nope. But some of it was incredibly cool. Here are just a few of the things that have been in that category.

1906 Portland Kennel Club Award Medal, intricate iron letter opener, small tin box with fossil/rock/semi-precious stone collection (w/ metal leafed,leather description page.) 1913 Enumclaw Wa. Dairy Carnival watch fob, countless lead toys, small tin can full of Confederate notes and old marbles, imprinted lead tobacco seals, small toy cash register with coins (none after 1966), dental tools from the mid to late 1800's, police badges, working ipod shuffles, and.....keys to my own car! (I didn't even know that I had lost them yet!). The list could go on and on for almost all of us? When we are all in into lookin' for the "better" stuff, what HAVE we left in the ground? How many small (or large) stashes of history or coins and valuables in a tin? There is not a bad thing at all with running with "better", more full featured equipment. You just have to be plain stupid to let the machine do all the "thinking" for you...all the time! YOU... not the machine, will always come up short. I started digging it all back in the 70's. Intelligence? Nope...just a kid, with a detector, who never bothered to learn how to trust his machine. All it takes is to not "trust" your machine once in a while, to have some real rewarding fun! A lot of the time... I forget this.

Here's to "A pocket full of bent up pulltabs.", oldandtired!

 

[Larry (IL)]

Great post nw1886, but for me the fun is with Old School technique, New Technology equipment.

 

[ohio fred]

I like to keep both eyes open like the old and new>the old holds some good ideas like the idx and the new like v-3 because old coins are becoming scarce and you need advanced equipment to give you more information on your decision to dig or not.I guess like i grew up with rotary dial phone heavy duty knock some one out with one now you can fit a phone in your pocket and move around to make calls before had to make them from home.Black and white tv when i grew up now my kids wont even look at a black and white movie,in photography black and white done correct is beautiful but color is great to.Use to take film to store to develop now its on a card you stick in your computer and download all the piles of dirty coins to findmall site for everyone to enjoy the junk you find.Enjoy that to .A baby is new when its born like my kids as they grow the become wiser like a newer machine and then sometimes a pain in the a-- but i love them and some times sit and think when they were small and didn't know anything.Some days i sit and think of the old days and then i think how did i get a long without a pocket phone colored TV surround sound and a computer to write stuff like this.Well just some thoughts Oh this is all possible for everyone in the whole world to read through the new school.Old school i would have to write you a letter.

 

[oldandtired]

I'm glad Al Gore invented this internet, but, sometime back my electric was out for almost 3 days, couldn't use the internet but the mail still went.

Talk about new school, I kinda liked licking a stamp once in awhile, and then they came out with the sticky stamps you don't have to lick, well I tell ya mister, once in awhile, I'll lick one anyway.

HH. James

 

[R-Rocks]

My old school has been the Eagle ll SL, just found one for the wife. Life is good.

 

[Nauti]

I,ve tried them all....minelabs,whites,teknetics,c-scope,tesoro,laser etc,etc.i've tried simple detectors and high tech detectors with all the electronic gadgetry and they all find lost metal items.However,my favorite machine and the one that has given me most of my finds over the years is a Nautilus dmc 2b.This is 25 year old technology and is certainly the best performing machine i have ever used.This tells me that a lot of the modern technology that goes into todays top detectors is just there to tempt people to buy them.The fact that Nautilus keep winning the G**S every year shows that simple old school technology is still relevant today.

 

[nw1886]

You said it perfect Larry.