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Compair X terra 705 to MXT Pro
- Thread starter gtxkid
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I would say the MXT may have a bit of an advantage hunting for natural gold and small gold jewelry since it's was basically designed for that, but the 705 will be much more efficient on the beach, assuming you want to hunt the wet sand. And it will do very well with a HF coil hunting for gold.
The MXT is not good in the wet sand ( based on my experiences using it....falsed constantly and the only way to possibly run it was to have very low sensitivity and higher discrimination settings which defeats the purpose), compared to the 705 running a LF coil.
That is the beauty of the 705....you can put the HF coil on to hunt gold and lower conductive targets and the dry sand for jewelry, and if you find there are lots of targets in the wet sand, put on the LF coil.
I used the LF 9 inch concentric on the beach yesterday (NJ beaches) in the wet sand. Running at sensitivity 22, it ran very smooth. Found lots of clad...no silver or gold this hunt but thats ok. Remember its not the best wet salt sand hunter, and I have units like a CZ, E-Trac and Infinium for that application, but I wanted to try out the 705 in that environment and it worked very well in my opinion.
No falsing at all in the semi-wet, and very little in the wet and suds. Now mind you, the LF coil is not as sensitive to smaller, lower conductive targets as the HF coil is, but for bigger gold, clad and silver, the LF coil is the one to use in the wet, SALT sand and suds. It runs much smoother than a HF coil running at the same sensitivity and discrimination levels.
I ran in all metal mode for the most part yesterday and pattern 1 sometimes. I like all metal mode on the 705 in the wet sand. Tried the Prospecting mode as well, but it was too noisy in the wet sand so I stuck to Coin mode, all metal.
The 705 has more options than the MXT in terms of ground balancing, tones, settings, etc. With the coil options, it's a better all round unit in my opinion. Based on your post, it looks like an all around unit is what you need.
The MXT is not good in the wet sand ( based on my experiences using it....falsed constantly and the only way to possibly run it was to have very low sensitivity and higher discrimination settings which defeats the purpose), compared to the 705 running a LF coil.
That is the beauty of the 705....you can put the HF coil on to hunt gold and lower conductive targets and the dry sand for jewelry, and if you find there are lots of targets in the wet sand, put on the LF coil.
I used the LF 9 inch concentric on the beach yesterday (NJ beaches) in the wet sand. Running at sensitivity 22, it ran very smooth. Found lots of clad...no silver or gold this hunt but thats ok. Remember its not the best wet salt sand hunter, and I have units like a CZ, E-Trac and Infinium for that application, but I wanted to try out the 705 in that environment and it worked very well in my opinion.
No falsing at all in the semi-wet, and very little in the wet and suds. Now mind you, the LF coil is not as sensitive to smaller, lower conductive targets as the HF coil is, but for bigger gold, clad and silver, the LF coil is the one to use in the wet, SALT sand and suds. It runs much smoother than a HF coil running at the same sensitivity and discrimination levels.
I ran in all metal mode for the most part yesterday and pattern 1 sometimes. I like all metal mode on the 705 in the wet sand. Tried the Prospecting mode as well, but it was too noisy in the wet sand so I stuck to Coin mode, all metal.
The 705 has more options than the MXT in terms of ground balancing, tones, settings, etc. With the coil options, it's a better all round unit in my opinion. Based on your post, it looks like an all around unit is what you need.
There are a lot of similarities between the functionality of these two detectors. They are both good machines and each has its own following. But the X-TERRA offers things that I find useful, that the MXT just don't have. In addition to the good points that therover made in his response, I'd add that the 705 with a HF 18.75kHz coil is more sensitive to gold targets than the MXT operating at 14kHz. I'd also add that having notch discrimination on the X-TERRA, compared to variable discrimination on the MXT will allow you to reject common trash with more accuracy. You'll find this to be a welcome feature when hunting the beaches. The ability to have multiple tones for audio target ID is a huge plus. The X-TERRA takes half as many batteries as the MXT. And the touch pads of the X-TERRA don't get "bumped" as easily as the knobs of the MXT.
If you get the X-TERRA, based on your preferred targets, make sure you order one with a HF coil. If it is the elliptical HF coil that comes standard in the Gold Pack, note that it is not waterproof... only water resistant. If you're going to submerse your elliptical coil, I'd recommend you run a bead of silicon around where the coil cover joins the coil, and where the cable enters the coil. When you head to the Mountains, the smaller 6-inch HF coil would allow you to work in and around the rocks in those Colorado creeks. But a larger coil would come in handy when working the beaches of Florida, due to the larger footprint and vast amounts of sand. JMHO HH Randy
If you get the X-TERRA, based on your preferred targets, make sure you order one with a HF coil. If it is the elliptical HF coil that comes standard in the Gold Pack, note that it is not waterproof... only water resistant. If you're going to submerse your elliptical coil, I'd recommend you run a bead of silicon around where the coil cover joins the coil, and where the cable enters the coil. When you head to the Mountains, the smaller 6-inch HF coil would allow you to work in and around the rocks in those Colorado creeks. But a larger coil would come in handy when working the beaches of Florida, due to the larger footprint and vast amounts of sand. JMHO HH Randy