CZ, Sovereign, Explorer, Etrac, DFX, and V3 are all multifrequency. All of them transmit a digital waveform; the easiest is the CZ which uses a simple 5kHz square wave and derives a weaker 15kHz 3rd harmonic from it, so it's a 2F detector. The DFX is also a 2F detector but uses a complex digital waveform to equalize the TX signal strengths. The V3 is similar to the DFX but is a 3F detector. All these -- CZ, DFX, and V3 -- utilize full-wave demods typical in so-called "frequency-domain" detectors.
The Sovereign also transmits a digital waveform but it alternates between a single 3.125kHz square wave and 8 cycles of 25kHz. Therefore, despite all the marketing claims to the contrary, it is a 2F detector. Unlike the CZ/DFX/V3 detectors, the Sov utilizes sampling methods more akin to how PI detectors work, so some people like to think of it as a "time-domain" detector. Regardless of the details of the signal processing, it has a high frequency channel, a low frequency channel, and then a third "low/high" channel which is still sampled from the low frequency signal.
The Explorer uses the exact same TX waveform as the Sovereign, so even though I've never dug into its operation the TX waveform clearly says it's a 2F detector; the "28 frequencies" is marketing bunk. I suspect the ETrac is the same.
All these detectors continuously transmit and receive and process 2 or 3 frequencies, so they are all multi-frequency. There are some detectors which can transmit/receive/process multiple frequencies but are not "multi-frequency." The Xterras and the Eureka come to mind; they can switch between radically different frequencies, but can't run them simultaneously.
- Carl