<body background="http://www.wiredcafe.net/jbms/tesorobg.jpg">James, I find both notch settings on the Golden easy to use but seldom use them. I set discrimination at the preset position and use the tones to decide whether to dig or not, the Golden will hit very small gold rings at that setting. Using the notch feature reduces the depth quite a bit, as does increasing the disc setting. I'm using a 7 inch ShadowX2 coil and by setting the disc at the preset mark and using the tones I get pretty decent depth, no problem hitting dimes at 6 inches and quarters at 8-9. I think it's an excellent coin detector for the places I use it. It has adequate depth, actually I've found coins deeper with the Golden than with the Lobo ST, but it's not a depth demon. I can't tell any difference at all in depth between the Shadow 7 inch coil and the 8X9 "OOR" coil that came with it but the Shadow coil is lighter, easier to handle, works better in trash and I don't like the odd shape of the standard coil anyway<img src="http://images.boardhost.com/emoticons/tongue.gif">. It's a little noisy with all the tones and combination of tones in trashy places but if you can handle the noise, use a slow sweep speed and listen carefully it has good target separation. The preset ground balance was way to positive for our ground until I adjusted it to neutral with the internal pot, that made a big difference in depth on higher conductive coins, especially dimes. Personally I wouldn't want it for an only detector but it's darn good for coins and is fun to use. Also, if you get one put some rubber O rings under the knobs, they are way too easy to bump out of adjustment.
JB
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