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Just listened to a demonstration of the AT PRO on the phone conducted by Brent Weaver at Garrett and this machine surpasses incredible and there ain't

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Uncle Willy

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I'll have a DVD of the demo in a few days. This tector has two hunting modes - standard ( where it operates like any detector) and PRO MODE where it doesn't operate like any other detector. In Pro Mode you can set it to distinguish between bottlecaps and other junk with distinct sounds for each and you can set the tones to your choice. No more digging bottlecaps that your tector said was a quarter. Response and recovery speed is unbelieveable. If you have two targets laying next to each other instead of it reading them as one target it will isolate the two. It will give a faint tone for deep targets and a strong one for shallow targets and it has 40 degrees of iron resolution that you can set to your heart's content.Will pick up a dime under a rusty nail or hot rock. Will detect a gold flake at 4-5 inches ( should make Alan jump with joy ) and a nugget the size of a cigarette filter at two feet.

And for you doubters it operates just dandy in saltwater or any other kind of water and is constructed with several and separate waterproof compartments. I'll know more when I get the DVD as there is a lot to tell about this puppy.

Bill
 
Yep Jumping for joy now Bill! Thats one crazy machine! Hope they put that video your gonna get on youtube!

Alan
 
This detector is really starting to sound like a dream come true! It will be interesting to see how it bangs on rings in comparison with the Scorpion. It has the same 15kHz as the Scorpion, which has proven itself for many years in the groundhog machines. Nice to see some of that tradition continuing, :thumbup:
 
Other manufacturers have been manufacturing machines for years with proportional audio that plays different tones on the same target depending on how the conductivity changes, so a bottle cap for instances goes low high low - i.e. pro audio with tone roll. If fact I would say that most mid to upper range machines do that today. Is there something else that Pro audio does besides having modulated audio with a fast enough response time to play multiple tones on the same target?
 
I'm looking forward to the machine as it is waterproof. But what you said is right on. My old T2 and my current Omega have modulated audio (as do many detectors). But my Omega is easily fooled with the 11"DD coil on bottlecaps, as are most DD coils. But in the AT Pro video it wasn't. That is nice. (Though bottle caps for me are not usually a big deal). The Omega and T2 both also have an iron range of 0-40, which not a whole lot of machines have - but the Garrett AT PRO will. This is nice.

I am really looking forward to how the Garrett does around iron. This is where the technology is at right now imo. Most quality detectors get pretty good depth. Maybe there is an inch or two from a mid priced to a high priced detector. But where they often separate is around iron. My Omega is great, better than my T2, but that is what 3 years newer technology will do. So, let's see how the new Garrett machine does there. I want to see if the report about pulling things from right around iron are true. I believe someone said that it can see a coin below iron. If that is true they could sell it for 1500 bucks and people will buy it, cause no detector can do that right now.

I am excited about the AT Pro and hope it does well. The more competition the better and now hopefully other manufacturers start waterproofing their units.
 
I'm not dissing the AT Pro, as I like you am would like to see it push the state of the art some. In fact I have one pre-ordered, however there is continuing talk about how it is going to make other detectors obsolete and I have yet to see something that earth shattering about it.

Being waterproof is nice though that isn't a big feature for me. In fact I hope it doesn't stop them from making an environment cover for it, as covers protect a machine from far more than water. I hunt with environment covers no matter the weather. When you are detecting a cellar hole it sure is easy to scratch the lcd if it is not protected. Keeping the lcd free from scratches helps the resale value a lot.

I think the two things I am most looking forward to testing is to see how the recovery speed matches up against my F75 and see how the signal processing software performs. I would think it was great machine if the recovery speed was faster than the T2/F75/F70 family of machines.
 
I was speaking to a person at Garrett today, and was informed that the AT Pro is going to be a truly amazing machine, but detecting a gold flake at 5 inches, or nugget at 2 feet is a bit of wishful thinking.
 
:usaflag:I have the $$$ for the AT, but I'm still waiting for some reviews after it's release date.
 
It was a telecon demo? You didn't actually witness 5 inches on a gold flake or 2 feet on a cigarette filter sized nugget? I'll wait for the video or a live demo.
 
sounds like some manufacturer hype.... a gold flake at 5 inches and a nugget at 2 feet sounds a little far fetched to me.
 
Yeh, those $5000 Minelabs PI's wont even get a similar size nugget at 2 feet. Crazy....we shall see soon enough though. :surprised:

Alan
 
Perhaps, but some detectors will fool you. Many years ago I owned a Fisher 441 which was a straight VLF with no discriminator. It drove me nuts, especially when it detected the head of a small nail at a measured 14 inches. That's when I hung it up.

Bill
 
True, I just related what I heard and was told. When I get one to field test I'll know for sure what it does. When something new and innovative like this appears on the scene excitement always rules. But one has to admit that there ain't nothing like this detector ouit there right now. How long have we been waiting for a machine that does just about everything we would wish it to do?

Bill
 
Just show me a test video of someone testing it on an ocean beach. (wet sand)
They all work good in the dry stuff.
Without turning the sen down, eliminating targets, and still gets good depth.

Happy Hunting
Bruce
 
For example, do you know if you can use the "tone roll" and turn off the modulation?

J
 
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