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Hi vlad,

Another issue which people rarely think about is - too much sensitivity to small targets!

Most people would not like using gold nugget machines for general detecting becasue every tiny bit of aluminum ever dropped, like a gum wrapper shredded by a lawn mower, can give you a signal.

For the same reason the stock 7.5 kHz coil is going to be best for most people. Better response on coins, less response on tiny trash. The 18.75 Khz coil might be too hot for general use. But great for gold guys like me!

Steve Herschbach
 
Hi Plugger,

In my opinion it would... in theory anyway. Every beach is different and so in the end you just have to try them and see.

Steve Herschbach
 
I just bought an x5! It was between the xterra 50 and x5. I think my next detector is going to be the xterra.

HH Pappy
 
But really an apples to oranges comparison. Xterra is a good casual I.D. machine for different aspects of hunting. But the X-5 will never leave you wanting for more. Once you get that X-5 in your hands, consider getting one of the little 5 inch coils for it. It's one of the few that will pull coins out of decent ground at over twice it's effective diameter. One of the top coinshooting machine/coil combinations ever produced IMO.

Ralph
 
In a trashy park with a few shredded up beer cans the 18.75 kHz will more than likely drive you nuts. Same thing if you hunt a beach with high concentrations of black sand.

For general use Steve is quite right: the 7.5 kHz will probably be the most popular.

It really comes down to what you are hunting for. If it's coins & some gold, the 7.5 kHz should be right. But if you are a guy who just wants the low conductivity stuff and not much else then you should consider the 18.75 kHz. It's really a matter of personal preference.

Bill
 
....that was corrected by the factory modifications offered on the first-run machines (to S.N. 300 I believe) and all production units thereafter. I sometimes wonder how many people have sold off their X-5s due to them being too sensitive before they tried turning down the sensitivity control. ?:eek: The X-5 was always an awsome machine in the right hands.

Ralph
 
How are the shadows on the beach? I would never want to take an ID -less machine into a trashy park. But on the beach, I would not have a problem with digging to china. Are the x's a decent beach machine. I dont hear alot about their results. I bought an xt-50 , which my son will probably use alot, just throwing around the Idea of a shadow for the beaches. Your comments most welcome. bugg
 
I used to have a X5 too and traded it off to help out a guy and regretted it many times over. To me this detector could pick up coin in with trash like no other detector could, but you had to watch where you set the sensitivity. I think this is where many find the MXT noisy as they try to run the sensitivity too high and get it to chatter. I am sure many will try to run the sensitivity on the X-Terra too high too and wonder why it is not stable and sell it.
 
other than the raspy, sputtery threshold audio, was that the Sensititvity (Gain) control doesn't only affect the gain, but also the Target Volume and modulation/saturation and I prefer to hunt with it at +3.

I usually hunt at maximum sensitivity with all my detectors, and very seldom reduce the X-Terra 50 from a '20' setting, or the Shadow X5 below the preset suggestion. Usually I am up higher than that ... but I also try to hunt sites away from the big city's RF sources.

Monte
 
Yes, the X5 is a decent beach machine. It will suffer a little bit of depth loss in the soup compared to dry sand but once set-up right it's no slouch. Probably the most versatile single frequency unit I've ever used but it wouldn't be my 1st. choice as a dedicated wet sand unit.
 
It works well at the beach particularly with the DD coil. I've used it on beaches ( NJ etc.)that had black sand and it performed pretty well although I would give the nod to multi-frequency units overall. In the dry sand I think it holds it own.
Pap
 
I find that I like to run a stable detector and when I turned up the sensitivity on my detectors they don't seem to be very stable with alot of sputtering. I alway with the MXT run just before the + and then when i get a iffy signal crank it up to the +2 or 3 to get a better signal on it.
With the X5 it was rare I could run higher than 8 I believe it was and get a stable detector that wouldn't false on every piece of iron there was, but yet got great depth and great target separation.
On the X-Terra I find i can run max or close to it on the sensitivity from what i have used it, but notice some falsing at this high of settings.

Rick
 
Or am I overlooking it?
 
I guess they saw fit to remove it when Troy stopped production of the X-3 and X-5. Maybe they will consider putting it back up once the new machines are released.

Ralph
 
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