Yea, witcher, I know what you mean. I think Golden prefers the Quatro also, even over the Explorer. (I'm not absolutely sure of that), but we've talked and chatted a lot over the past few years, and she's had tremendous success with it, and knows it inside out. I've studied both the Quatro, (which I own), and read the owners manual of the Explorer a few times, and the main thing that I see about the Explorer, that the Quatro doesn't have is what I call the double numeric system. Where as the Quatro gives you one numeric readout for either conductive or ferrous content, the Explorer gives you both at the same time. I can see where this might be able to give you "more" information on whether or not to "dig" the buried object or not, but when it all boils down to it, I think the Quatro is extremely accurate on it's one numeric reading, and you of course can also use the different audio settings to give you even more information. As far as depth, I've read many reviews from owners who owned both detectors, and one of those owners even thinks the Quatro "might" even go a little deeper on the beach. I know I've dug a few penny's in wet beach sand at about a foot deep with the standard coil. In my opinion, it doesn't get too much better than that, unless you put on a bigger coil, and then you "might" lose a little sensitivity, but the other great feature of Quatro, for me is it's ability to almost completely eliminate, spurious noises from mineralized beach sand and salt water. Some of my old detectors were horrible in that area, but my Quatro is almost silent on that stuff. When you add the possibility of "notching" out specific numbers which of course correspond with different types of metals, you've got a detector that's almost second to none in my eyes. I know a lot of the DFX owners might not agree with me, but I still can't say enough good things about the Quatro. It just does the job and in my opinion, it does it very well. Take care, and glad to have you aboard the forum. Hope to hear more from you in the future, and love to see those great pictures of your finds. To me that's a huge part of this forum or any forum for that matter, is that it gives us all the ability to not only talk about this stuff, but share pictures of our treasures we find. Almost like show and tell back in grade school (huh Golden). I'm ribbing Golden a bit, just to make sure she's still reading our posts here. I'll bet I got a laugh out of her.. Take care. Marc Trainor (backslider)
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