FIRST SOVEREIGN VS THE GT

[bustercrab]

My good friend who I visit every year,lives in Broome,West Australia.Their beaches are infested with hot rocks and my friend purchased the first Sovereign,which is AUTO-GROUND balance,when it came on the market.My last visit I took with me the GT and left it there for him to test drive...His reply was,no noticable differance.
......................ANYONE CARE TO COMMENT....................

 

[sand_reaper]

Your friend's right. I've used all model's from the original to the latest GT and there's no difference performance wise. The GT has more features, although Minelab deliberately mislead prospective buyers of the GT with their sales patter but I don't believe they make any difference performance wise. The only edition that could be useful, to most users anyway, is the frequency switch.

 

[Art (NWOH)]

I don't like the performance of the GT compared to my 2a.
I would not use the GT at all if it were not for the better balance.
HH

 

[Rick(ND)]

I feel the GT is a little hotter than the other Sovereigns myself. The one I felt that didn't live up to the other Sovereigns was the original. In my test the original didn't seem to have the depth or the nice tones of the XS when I compared them side by side. I latter tried another original against the XS2 I was using and it too didn't do what the XS2 could do.
Now with the GT I have been finding in our soil up here in ND that I get a little more falsing which I have to checkout a little more by coming at the signal from a different angle to see if it will repeat. This is my second GT and both seem to be the same and notice I am picking many deeper coins out of area where I been over with the XS2 and the Elite many of times. I even picked out a very nice Barber dime along a sidewalk I had been over with the XS2, the Elite, a MXT and even the Explorer plus some deeper IHs at a old farm site I tried it at that has had several detectors at. I feel this is because the GT is a bit more sensitive and by going slow and knowing the Sovereign you can hear these faint signals enough to check out. They probably are not classic signals some expect, but tone changes you work to know they are repeatable and tones are trying to climb. With the GT I also notice that most deeper signals I can work to the correct tones and ID numbers on my Sun Ray meter, better than the other Sovereigns is another reason I feel the GT is a improvement over the other Sovereigns, but I feel you have to know your Sovereigns well to get the max performance from it. This also goes for the sensitivity as back a few years ago many said they didn't see the difference in auto or manual sensitivity on the Sovereigns so they left it in auto. The reason was they did not know their Sovereigns well so they couldn't see the difference.Now that they know the Sovereign well they see the difference this makes.
Like I say I feel the GT is the better one to have, but not as easy to use as the older XS, XS2 or the XS2a, but with the freq switch and the silent search switch you can use when needed to be you have more options for you type of hunting, plus my opinion the GT is a little hotter from my experiences with it.

 

[John LA]

I haven't used the original but I've had 2 GT's and like the Elite better.