A smaller coil or going to an SEF coil will cut down on your trash.As far as Etrac having a bigger processor it needs it with the 1700 hundred pixels and all the bells and whistles does not mean that it is any faster than Safari it just takes all that to run it.I have seen dozens of Etrac users having 75 percent or better of pixels blacked out really helps me determine that there is plenty left in the ground when I see that.The Safari has 50,I use 39 for the life of me I do not know why you would want 1700.I have owned 3 Etracs,I have trained 11 people on the use of Etrac and Safari both are good machines.If someone has been hunting more than 20 years I recommend the Safari if they are new to Hobby I will tell them to buy Etrac.Etrac has auto features that helps a newcomer learn and speak Minelab then when they think that they got it down, I go behind them with my Safari and show them how much they are missing.It is not the fault of the Etrac it is all the extra settings that can make you set up the Etrac to lessen the performance of the machine the Safari will not let you get into that problem because it does not have the features.Why do you need to see the FE line 90 percent of the time it is at 12 and when it is not on 12,would you not dig a 13- 35 ?The Etrac is like luxury car it is very nice and does the work for you in auto which is causing you to miss targets,So Etrac users -open up all those pixels,put cover over that screen,run sensitivity in manual,hear what your machine is telling you,enhance your personal operator skills and you too could not leave those goodies behind for those bare bone Safari users.The answer to your Question is look how great you were doing with your Safari.Unless you find virgin ground you are not going to find anything bigger or deeper with Etrac,I and the rest of us old hunters sucked all that easy stuff in the 70's,80's,90's .I remember finding Half dollars and Quarters by the pocket full with a Garret Ground Hog a bad day was not finding at least 5 dollars in silver.You want to find bigger silver you need to find new ground.You find silver half today it is find of the month, to bad coins do not breed.I really liked running the old BFO detectors,felt like I was driving a space ship.