Tiger Shark Headphones

[Olddigger2]

I am the new owner of a Tiger Shark after 25 years of land hunting(Nautilus,Minelabs) now I am gettin in the drink. The stock headphohes that come with it look kind of cheap. To upgrade I called Detectorpro about their Grey Ghost Underwater headphones and their rep. wasn't even sure if they would work on a Tiger Shark(impedence,wiring). Would somebody reply to this question or give me the brand name of good headphone that will work. Thanks

 

[Charles (Montreal Canada)]

Interesting question, I am also looking foward for an answer to this, I may change the headphone on my Stingray..

 

[Charles (Montreal Canada)]

Interesting question, I am also looking foward for an answer to this, I may change the headphones on my Stingray..

 

[Hombre]

The headphones on my Tiger Shark are not cheap! I still am having good luck with mine after NINE yrs. of hard use. I did adjust them for loudness once or twice since buying it. Plus if you have them replaced by somebody other than Tesoro, I'd think the lifetime warranty would be down the tubes............JMTC.............Hombre

 

[grumpyolman]

If Tesoro can build that detector so you can change coils, why couldn't they use the exact same connector and let you change headphones? I've noticed a lot of the major manufacturers are all using hard wired headphones. None of those, coil or phone, should be hardwired. Dang! It'd just be a few more dollars to make them changeable. That through the hull fitting that Garrett and Tesoro use are darn near bulletproof. The problem is getting the seal on the end of the coil wire or the heaphone wire to be a perfect seal. Not water resistant. WATERPROOF. There's a difference. Minelab uses the exact same connector as Garrett to do that. Minelab does it so you can put Grey Ghosts on their underwater machine and they use the same connector for their battery pod.. Garrett does it with headphones. Tesoro uses a different one for their coils. If they'd get together and adopt a standard it'd be a lot better for the consumer. Thank God the sparkplug manufacturers did that. You can buy a kajillion brands, but they come in just a few different sizes. Not counting the specialty ones for small engines etc. Of course your sparkplugs don't have to work underwater. Jim

 

[tvr]

Congrats on getting the Tiger Shark. Hope to hear how you do!

My experience, not a Tiger Shark but, the headphones with my Sand Shark are solid, isolate wave noise very well and are clear. They look simple and are fairly light but perform well. I've been rolled by waves, knocked the headphones off my head, got wrapped up in the scoop and detector, dropped the head phones on the ground while walking up the sidewalk towards the water more than once and every thing still works very well. The only failure I've had is when I got rolled by a wave and stood up on the coil. I couldn't see a crack but the detector started sounding off as waves washed over the coil. New (used) coil fixed that ... and that is an easy swap with the Tesoro.

I don't believe Minelab still modifies their waterproof detector with connectors for either the coil or the headphone. They used to, for a price, if you requested, but not anymore. All hardwired now unless you do it yourself and void their limited 3 year warranty.
tvr