Metal detectors

Has anybody done performance tests on all these brands of metal detectors and rated them.

 

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I have done some testing myself by burying coins at depts. up to 20 inches and testing 3 top of the line machines and only one machine was able to find the single coin at that dept.. And there is all kinds of good reading on forums of people that use these machines all over the world and they talk about all the top machines and which ones performed better. There are also good videos of guys out in battlefields and the like using different machines. Blisstool has a lot on youtube also.

 

Me too, the etrac is the best I have tested at depths up to 2ft.

 

Have you ever tested a Blisstool?? If not go into the Blisstool videos and watch the comparisons even with the etrac...... that costs $3000!, and you will see that the Blisstool was much more sensitive and deeper for a third the price. No offense these are the facts. It is not an easy machine to learn as there are many manual adjustments but once you master it, its easy.

 

My friend tested a bliss tool against all models and he found it to be far worse than the etrac. Far far worse. The reason was that with all the manual adjustments it is a bit like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted when trying to tune it in to beat another detector after you know the target type and size. when you walk along a field with a detector you want the detectors computer to take in all the information and decide what to ignore and what not to , then to give you an audible signal. You cannot walk over a target the etrac has found without getting a clear audible response from the blistool and then say, hang on I know there's something down there because the etrac found it, make adjustments and then say you had a clearer response than the etrac. I use two detectors and my son and I will often check each others signals when they are deep and faint, we get the best of both worlds then. Ground type and trash density change all the time and many hundreds of times in a days detecting. The etrac will adjust quickly to this and be consistently reliable at finding good targets. As with most detectors discrimination is a big issue, I don't use any, but the responses I get from signals based on their conductivity and ferrous properties are different as I set it up to tell me when I go over rubbish rather than nor telling me. I can make my own mind up then.... I don't trust the computer to make human like decisions. But as for the blistool being the best, sorry, but I don't agree.

 

Interestingly, I have been browsing forums discussing the bliss tool recently. It seems that good depth is achieved by discriminating more and more , to the point that for one guy to achieve the depth he needed to get to the sweet depth on a beach ie. Where the good stuff settles below the sand, he had to discriminate to such a degree that he could not detect gold! Now this is something a beach detectorist would never do... He returned it.
Lots of others moan about the manual adjustments too.
I have spent so many thousands of hours on fields now that I can see the pitfalls of most machines and they ALL have their bad points. Some more than others and usually the cheaper they are the more problems there are , either with build quality, battery issues, sensitivity vs discrimination and ease of use.