List All The Sovereign Mods, Like An Amp, Tuning, Etc.

[crazyman]

I always considered myself a Whites man. I've been using the Whites 5900/6000 series as my main detectors for going on 25 years and have tried many of the other makes and models that have come out during that time also. I bought my first Sovereign some years back after reading posts from Rick and others on the forums and seeing the finds they were getting at depth. Being a long time Whites user I just wasn't prepared for how different this detector was compared to anything I had used in the past. My first trip out with the Sovereign had me thinking these people must be insane. I just couldn't get used to the wild tones, crazy threshold changes and constant nulling when hunting the trash/iron filled ghost towns and logging camps that I hunt. I sold it rather quickly. A few years later I bought another one thinking I would use it mainly for saltwater beach hunting and maybe some of the cleaner areas but again I got frustrated not just with the tones but with the extremely slow sweep speeds that was needed for optimum depth. Going from a fast sweep single tone detector like my Whites 5900/6000/XLT to the Sovereign was excruciating and I ended up selling it also. My next try was with the Sovereign Elite thinking that the single tone option might turn the Sovereign into something I was more used to and basically it did. I hunted with the single tone and my threshold set to silent and started finding the usual but nothing that made me think it was any better than anything I already used. It wasn't until I started hunting some trashy saltwater beaches again with the Elite and using the tones and threshold to help me identify the rusty bottle caps and deep iron that things started clicking. I started getting used to the tones and threshold changes and was liking it more and more. Personally I can only distinguish about 5 different tones with the Sovereign. Iron, rusty round objects like bottle caps, foil, nickel- pull tabs and coins. I still can't separate those nasty zincs or aluminum caps from copper on up though. I started using the Sovereign on land again using the experience I gained hunting the beaches along with the tips on this forum and started started seeing the depth and target separation in iron I could get with the same tones and threshold changes that earlier drove me "crazy". Just being patient and putting in the time to learn the Sovereign has opened my eyes to just how deep and versatile this detector can be once learned. I'm already planning on getting a second Sovereign. After putting in many hours on the Sovereign recently hunting beaches, ghost towns, parks and lawns I have to say that I'm now a Sovereign man.