Vatos, sounds like you are in Europe? You're getting a lot of advice from Americans, and I think our detecting might be different from yours in quite a few ways. First of all most of us have never seen or laid hands on the XP Deus so we can't even begin to compare that detector to the others.
When we talk about finding gold here, many of us are looking for modern gold jewelry in trashy parks. Because of the trash, it is very hard to discriminate the gold. The E-Trac and other machines will all sound off on the gold, the problem is that it sounds like trash so most of us choose not to dig a lot of those signals and go for old coins that do sound good.
If I were hunting a European site that was not a trashy modern park, I would be looking for a machine that had good depth and discrimination of iron. I think the E-Trac does well on both those fronts. Some machines start to false on items detected at depth and give iron type signals which can be confusing. The E-Trac does not tend to do this. If it is good and deep, it does not give you a false iron signal, it still sounds good.
So it's not that any of these detectors are bad on gold, it's that we are hunting sites where the gold often sounds like trash. In my own testing of gold rings and jewelry, the E-Trac sounds off on these things just fine. The problem is that most of the tones and ID numbers the gold items give are trash signals that in the places I hunt I generally do not dig because I have a low tolerance for digging trash. Also my main interest is finding old coins, not gold jewelry so my mental focus is different while I am detecting.
When we talk about finding gold here, many of us are looking for modern gold jewelry in trashy parks. Because of the trash, it is very hard to discriminate the gold. The E-Trac and other machines will all sound off on the gold, the problem is that it sounds like trash so most of us choose not to dig a lot of those signals and go for old coins that do sound good.
If I were hunting a European site that was not a trashy modern park, I would be looking for a machine that had good depth and discrimination of iron. I think the E-Trac does well on both those fronts. Some machines start to false on items detected at depth and give iron type signals which can be confusing. The E-Trac does not tend to do this. If it is good and deep, it does not give you a false iron signal, it still sounds good.
So it's not that any of these detectors are bad on gold, it's that we are hunting sites where the gold often sounds like trash. In my own testing of gold rings and jewelry, the E-Trac sounds off on these things just fine. The problem is that most of the tones and ID numbers the gold items give are trash signals that in the places I hunt I generally do not dig because I have a low tolerance for digging trash. Also my main interest is finding old coins, not gold jewelry so my mental focus is different while I am detecting.
