[quote metaltectinria]Do you find that these headphones allow you to find things that you wouldnt have found with other headphones?[/quote][size=medium]Yes, especially with certain models that otherwise have a sort of muffled audio via the headphone circuitry.[/size]
[quote metaltectinria]Do sounds that would be considered deep, weak, or possibly broken because of depth, become cleaner, louder signals?[/quote] [size=medium]As a general rule, yes. A good quality set of high impedance headphones can assist with some weaker, deeper, smaller target responses. Still, it can make a difference depending upon the particular model or the settings used with some high-tech models.
If a model uses a clipper circuit, then there just isn't going to be any weak audio response to clean up audibly. An example would the one of the good Bounty Hunter Big Buds, like the burgundy model I used in Oregon, Idaho, and Texas some years back. Those models were designed with a clipper circuit whereby all targets that produced sufficient audio were processed with full audio saturation. In other words, a 6" coin sounded like a 1" coin because if there was sufficient detection strength, full (saturated) audio was applied. Those targets that didn't quite generate enough signal response to be processed were 'clipped' or just not heard at all. So headphone boosters and such were useless.
Many offerings today have a fair amount of their total detection range "saturated," so to speak, and this audio boost promotes the sense that the detector is more powerful. In most cases, however, there can be softer, weaker audio responses with most detectors and some of those can be a strain to hear, if you're not using a quality set of headphones.
Investing in worthwhile headphones is tied with acquiring a smaller-than-stock coil, in my book, as the #1 accessory for success after any detector purchase.
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