What tipped me over the edge

[Mike Hillis]

was Andy quoting the manual:

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The X-70 allows you to check what coil is connected which shows the communication between the housing and the coil. When you are in the MENU screen, press & hold the ACCEPT/REJECT touch pad. The legend about the coil will appear on the screen. The following messages will be possible as per the manual:

cS = Concentric standard frequency
cL = Concentric low frequency
cH = Concentric high frequency
dS = DD standard frequency
dL = DD low frequency
dH = DD high frequency

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unquote

This post of Andy's told me they really do have plans to produce a DD coil for the X-Terras. Which was what I have been waiting to hear and see. The fact that I could get them in low and high frequency is just a bonus. I DD coils

My X-70 should be here in a week or two. I'm expecting it to be a perfect compliment to my T2! Thanks to Sonny for getting me to look at it.

 

[Joe of South Jersey]

I think it is a good one to add to any arsonal. It covers many areas of use.

 

[Mike Hillis]

When I saw the tone selection on the X-70, my eyebrows went up. Multi-Tone selection and notches? hmmmmmm. But being stuck with concentric coils would limit my use of it. If I bought it, it would just be a specialty detector that I wouldn't use all that often. But when I saw the DD message response, that clinched it. Even if I have to wait for it. Multi-tone selection, notches, low and high frequency choices in a DD loop...I couldn't resist.

 

[BarnacleBill]

n/t

 

[Monte]

I, too, am anxious to get at least one DD coil, and even more excited (impatient??) to get a small 7.5 kHz and a 9" 3 kHz coil. Both my 7.5 & 18.75 kHz coils have proven themselves with the X-Terra 50, and a short hunt between rain this afternoon (15+ minutes ) with my X-Terra 70 has got me pumped for my 3-day weekend!

There's more to the X-Terra 70 than many will believe or possibly even be comfortable with. The X-Terra 50 is a very easy to learn and adjust model, and quite capable for most peoples needs or wants .... without being too intimidating. The X-Terra 70 isn't really all that difficult, if a person is a patient and attentive learner, but I know there will be many who, due to a patience level, will be far better suited with the X-Terra 50.

So, X-Terra 50 sales will continue. Mine is definitely staying in my personal battery. My X-Terra 70 will become my primary-use unit now. By the end of the weekend I am sure I'll be punching touchpads for quick in-the-field changes w/o a second thought. Many of us will love it, and I am going to have some fun Saturday with my MXT swinging hunting buddy .

Look forward to your posts, and Happy Hunting.

Monte

 

[Joe of South Jersey]

The 70 is more like a pro model.

You have the ability to just cruise, or really drive it to the limit. With the expanded Sensitivity you can drive it to instability.

The added features of tone selection is also nice.
Being that you have the 50 you can start with 4 and the tones are configured to that of the 50.

Here are the other tones:
(1) Single Tone
(2) 2 Tones (Ferrous and Non-Ferrous)
(3) Tone set-up like X30 (3 Tones)
(4) Tone set-up like X50 (4 Tones)
(99) Multi-tone Each segment (28 Tones)

These are just a couple of the features that make it so adjustable.

 

[willy]

I'm really curious about how it compares to the MXT re. really small gold. I'm looking to get another unit for prospecting by the end of the month. Had the MXT (used it for nuggethunting and found a bunch of gold) but it wasn't getting down as small as I wanted (1/3 grain was abot it). Hoping that te X70 can better that. ...Willy.

 

[Monte]

on gold nuggets and for other applications. It is certainly a good multi-purpose detector, and I don't think there's another model that would be more reasonable to compare against the X-Terra 70. I also don't thing that, overall, there is another model that can match the X-Terra 70's adjustment functions for the various modes, combined with light weight, good balance, and ample user control.

For the serious nugget hunter there are some differences a 'former' MXT user will need to adjust to when going with the X-Terra 70. The main thing they will need to do is learn to listen closer and not glance at the display ... because the display isn't going to tell them anything like the MXT. The MXT, in prospecting mode, displays an "iron probability" percentage as well as a ground phase reference number.

The X-Terra doesn't give you that info, and quite frankly, it isn't needed. A novice nugget hunter can (I know of some, anyway) can be drawn to look at the display and rely on the display to decide if he should recover the target or not. Too much time is sometimes spend re-sweeping a target to try and make the display tell them good-or-bad. When you want to get serious about nugget hunting, you want to recover anything that beeps!

With the X-Terra 70 you have the Iron mask feature and it allows ample adjustment, should there be enough pesky small iron bits at a site where you want the bigger nuggets. Small nugget recovery requires that you take a look at everything that beeps, and not try to knock out all sorts of iron trash. The X-Terra 70 allows you to do that.

So, comparing the two, you really want to be able to hunt a site with some control over troublesome iron, if it is present, and mainly LISTEN for any discernible target response.

What I also like about the X-Terra 70 is that is does have a very fast Auto Track, a very quick response, and ion the Prospecting mode, I especially like being able to adjust the audio tone or pitch. Sometimes, due to wind or other outside noise, or just due to the fact that you hunt for a long time listening to the same threshold audio tone, your hearing can become 'blind,' so to speak, to some subtle responses. Being able to alter the audio pitch to a tone that is pleasant for you is a real plus in my book!

Additionally, a few other differences between the X-Terra 70 and the MXT are that you have:

 

[Captain Kirk]

You are a guy that I would like to talk to in person. I would also like to see the X-70 in operation before buying one.

Glenn

 

[Monte]

n/t