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Minelab SDC 2300 link

"Dr.Tones"

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Your thoughts?
http://www.minelab.com/usa/consumer/knowledge-base/news?article=215928
 
An Australian dealers website show the price at AU$3999. This tracks pretty well with information I was given recently by a US dealer who said that mine Lampitt indicated they were aiming for a $3800 price for this detector.

The information on Minelab's website shows pretty clearly that this is not the dual voltage technology - multiple timings package that is available in the GP/GPX series detectors which culminate of course in the GPX 5000. It seems that what you have here is the old SD2200 minus the discrimination circuits.

This is going to been really tough sell against Garrett GPX at roughly $2000 when minelab wants well over $3000 for this detector. Add to that no provision for accessory coils and it becomes pretty hard to understand.

When Minelab discontinued the SD2100v2 and the SD2200v2, American gold detector dealers howled in protest. It left them with nothing to sell for less than $5000. This new detector doesn't look like it helps matters at all. If Codan's business model means that they can't offer $2000 PI detector then they can only watch as first Garrett and then probably others offer PI detectors maybe even new hybrid VLF/PI detectors at competitive prices around $2000.

Last but not least it won't be available till mid 2014.
 
I hear ya rick. I'm waiting for field tests to judge it though. The one coil thing is my biggest concern, but hey... If you put that coil over gold and it picks it up better than others I guess I can't complain
 
You can buy almost 2 ATX'S for what they are asking for the SDC.

I suspect that this will be DOA for the US market - by the way Steve Herschbach just declared the ATX to be his favorite PI detector on the grounds that the GPX5000 is a magnificent "one trick pony" - unsurpassed as a gold detector but that's the only area it excels all others in.

Minelab dug their hole when they made the progressive upgrades of the GP/GPX series progressively more expensive instead of doing like Apple, for example, adding capabilities and features while holding the price. Now they have a $5000 plus machine that should cost $3000 and they are afraid to price their new machine at the $1800 it should cost.

I wish I had a GPX-5000, but then I wish I had a lot of things whose price is in excess of the real value they would deliver to me.
 
This is not Sd 2200 tech It is a new transmission and receive design. Somewhere on one of these forums you can find the patent info. This is a all new design as far as I can tell looking at the patent. If it was old Sd tech why a new patent?
Just Thinking, But still way to much money. For the circuitry and components going into these machines we are being ripped off!!
 
Sorry, the new patent likely has nothing to do with it. The copy that they wrote for the new detector is just a new mumbo-jumbo term made up for old tech.

Wait and see. I had it straight from one of the top ML gold detector dealers - Sd2200 tech with mods. Might be great for all I know, but it is not something new and radical.

Read Codan's Annual General Meeting address by the Chairman, it's on the web - google it - nothing of new tech for gold detectors till at least 2015.

It might be a great detector, but new tech it's not - and $3800 - not of my money. I have a like new SD 2100 that I want to get to know - cost me less than $1000 with three coils.

I would be delighted if any company could sell me a detector for $2000 which would guarantee that I could find any gold I swept it over, but my dad accidentally backed over the Tooth Fairy in 1962 and things just haven't been the same since.
 
Damn! But you wrote that well! That is exactly my thoughts. They (ML) have priced themselves out of the market. How can they now justify a radical price drop? There would be war on all fronts with the ML owners leading the charge! Well written mate!
 
Thanks for the kind words. I do think that ML has kind of painted themselves into a corner with their GPX-5000 pricing - they have a difficult task to pick the correct feature set and correct price to capture new buyers. Too capable or too inexpensive and it will cannabalize GPX sales. Too expensive and it will struggle against the ATX and land-only units like the TDI and future introductions from the competition.

On the other hand, I just re-read my posts above and I am a little embarrassed at how ANGRY they sound.

The bottom line problem for me is that a some of what ML does as a business (mainly their pricing and the apparent cost of out of warranty repairs on the GPX machines) makes it hard for me to want to do business with them. On the other hand, if somebody handed me $5000 for toys, I would RUN to buy an in warranty GPX-5000.

With that sort of mixed-up attitude towards ML, I confess to having indulged in a bit of ML bashing.

I now have a ML SD2100 and some coils, a TDI, and will get my almost new ATX next week.

By the time the SDC-2300 is out and user reports are posted, I will be in a position to see what I think of it.
 
$4000.00 for limited PI system and in the company their going to compete with? Yeh, their heads are still in La La Land that's for sure. It looks like another Eureka Gold one coil design elephant to me.

I do like the color though, that's nice.

:)
 
It sounds like if you own any upgraded models after the 2200, eg gp extreme 3000 onwards its not worth changing over to the SDC2300 . Especially when considering limited coil size as well. I think the pricing around the same as the Garrett ATX would be reasonable. seeya Neilo
 
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