Golden Umax is it up to the task?

[thump7]

I have been seriously conteplating buying a new Golden umax detector, but I have found little information on it. Some of what I have read up on it doesn't sound too good. Like the notch feature notching out heavier gold rings along with the pulltabs.
Most of the tesoros have oodles of writeups and reviews, but not the golden. There was only 1 or 2 Utube videos, they weren't that great and the rest weren't in english.
Where I live I have a few places like the fairgrounds that are absolutely packed with trash and I can spend all day in there with the Vaq digging those broken aluminum and brass lightbulb casings aswell as pultabs, uluminum wire along with other electrical impliments from the fair rides with little to show for my efforts. Thumbing the disc dial just doesn't work for me. I want to be able to disc out the mid-range of unwanted non-ferrous targets.
I had a Silver Umax at one time and the preset GB worked fine in my soil, I doubt the Golden would have a problem with it either.
Also, I like the threshold-based All-Metal, but I know that the ground balance needs to be set either neutral or positive for it to work properly - not negative. Can the Groundbalance be set internally?
Does the clean sweep work fairly decent in trashy areas?
Any help would be apreciated as well as your time for a reply. Thanks.

 

[slingshot]

I have the Royal Sabre. Last week I found this 10k ring while in notch mode. I think the analog type of discrimination is the best as it can be precise. The nickel/foil side of the notch can even by lowered to right at iron on the Golden. When you get around trash, depth is the last thing to worry about=you gotta get what's amongst the trash. The Royal in notch mode is like the Golden, albeit the Golden can be adjusted even more precise, and then you have the ability to toggle back and forth and if the trash is only moderate, you can go to the tones. The real kicker is the fast response which is needed in trash. I still say it's like 3 detectors in one-beep-dig, notch, and tone id. I'm only $300 away from getting one. Another couple of rings........

 

[thump7]

I agree with what you said about the depth, it is the least of my worries. If I can get 3" depth with strong audio response and good discrimination, I'm flying.

 

[Clad to be here]

I have a Golden and I'm really impressed with it. I love the multi audio tones.