What the Garrett ATX Needs to Do

[steve herschbach]

This is all purely my personal opinion. I have used both the Garrett Infinium and White's TDI since they came out. Both are decent machines for the price. But neither one really compares to my Minelab GPX 5000 for overall performance, although we all know that machine costs far more money.

I like three things about the ATX immediately compared to my GPX - waterproof, built-in speaker, and built-in batteries. The discrimination thing is always intriguing but I know do not have much faith in discrimination systems for nugget detecting and so do not expect magic from the ATX in that regard. I really only need it to do one thing.

The ATX needs to bridge the gap between the Infinium/TDI and GPX by about half. The Infinium and TDI are no more powerful than a good VLF in all metal mode and so only really useful in extreme hot rock situations. The ATX does not need to match the GPX in performance but it sure needs to be clearly better than the Infinium and TDI. If it is, I will be very pleased with it.

I have a TDI waiting to run head to head against the ATX when I get my hands on one. I can assure you I am very curious to see how they compare.

 

[Tye]

I have the other potential trio, GPX 5000 and the Infinium. If I can get an early ATX ..I will try and do the same sort testing.

Cheers,

Tye

 

[Night Crawler]

I would really like to hear what you both have to say about it Steve and Tye. The ATX is very intriguing and has some features I really like about it, but I'm going to hold back a bit for more "In-Depth" reviews to come in before pulling the pin on it.

Thanks.

 

[SavingThePast]

This is all purely my personal opinion. I have used both the Garrett Infinium and White's TDI since they came out. Both are decent machines for the price. But neither one really compares to my Minelab GPX 5000 for overall performance, although we all know that machine costs far more money.

I like three things about the ATX immediately compared to my GPX - waterproof, built-in speaker, and built-in batteries. The discrimination thing is always intriguing but I know do not have much faith in discrimination systems for nugget detecting and so do not expect magic from the ATX in that regard. I really only need it to do one thing.

The ATX needs to bridge the gap between the Infinium/TDI and GPX by about half. The Infinium and TDI are no more powerful than a good VLF in all metal mode and so only really useful in extreme hot rock situations. The ATX does not need to match the GPX in performance but it sure needs to be clearly better than the Infinium and TDI. If it is, I will be very pleased with it.

I have a TDI waiting to run head to head against the ATX when I get my hands on one. I can assure you I am very curious to see how they compare.

I could be wrong but I dont theink the atx has built in batteries steve. My recon pro doesnt. you have to tuen the battery doors and then pull out a battery holder which holds 4 aa batteries on each side. you then charge the aa batteires in a battery charger...

 

[steve herschbach]

By built in I meant batteries in the detector instead of on a backpack. No battery cable to get caught in the brush. If they have to come out to charge no big deal, that is Normal in the detecting world. External batteries are not.

 

[SavingThePast]

By built in I meant batteries in the detector instead of on a backpack. No battery cable to get caught in the brush. If they have to come out to charge no big deal, that is Normal in the detecting world. External batteries are not.

oh, ok...I get what you meant by it now....