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Does the X-70 always run with a threshold or is it silent?
- Thread starter Idaho-Marke
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You can set one threshold level on the X-70 for use with headphones and another level for use without headphones. Both settings are saved in memory, but can be changed at any time. Either X-70 threshold is adjustible from -5 to 20, with 0 being the point that it becomes audible. (I call that the true threshold) I like to run mine at a level of +5, as it gives me enough of a sound to make me aware of a target that is "blanking" if I am in a Pattern mode. Yet low enough to not be annoying. I suppose the setting that each of us consider to be "just barely audible" will depend on how good our hearing is! I can't think of a time when I would run mine in the negative numbers, even if I wanted to hunt in a silent search mode. If you do set it too low, you run the risk of having it so low that small targets will not produce a signal loud enough to overcome the true threshold of sound. HH Randy
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Digger is right on. I might add, and this is just my 2c worth, that IF I am in a pattern mode, I will run the threshold at a 9 or 10. The reason behind that is that I find more nickles, for some reason, with the threshold a little higher. When I first bought the detector, I ran it at 5 but I was not finding many nickles. When I raised it to 10, I started finding lots more. Heck, I found my first 1936 Buffalo just this morning.( that is the first one since I moved down here to Deep South Texas) This is just one of the many reasons I love my Xterra70. Not so many settings that one can't easily learn this great detector but enough that it can be 'personalized' for so many different ways of detecting and adaptable to most, or all, ground conditions.