Of all the whites detectors...

[Hungarian]

which series or model had the best sound in your opinion?

 

[TIM CLARK]

I got a new V3i in July 2011 and I use the wireless headphone with it . I run in tone ID and I like the sound of this detector . One thing with this detector is you can change the tones of the VDI and make it sound how ever you want it to. On my XLT and DFX they sound the same I think the V3i has a more cleaner sound to it.

 

[Hombre]

Of my 5900 Di Pro SL, or my 6000 Pro XL..........nothing else out there that sounds as good except for a select few older model Tesoros. My opinions only

 

[Digging Fool]

I, too, like the old 6000 series tones.

 

[Tom Slick]

The one that's over a target.

 

[Bill G]

Whites Xl Pro, best sounding and one of the best and most accurate ID detectors ever maid by Whites. Mine is in mint condition and put away for safe keeping, to darn bad and a mistake they stopped making them.

Happy & Safe Hunting To All,
Bill G

 

[GoGoGopher]

I agree...the old analog machines had some of the BEST sound of all the White's...the Classics, 5000 and 6000 series machines...XL Pro was one of the best...
XLT and QXT Pro had some distinctive sound as well...


HH,

 

[nw1886]

For quality of audio info only, it is a slam dunk for me to say my older analog machines. (I still have one, borrow others, and "go old school" occasionally just because of it alone.) The analogs were made as long as it was possible and were discontinued because the world had "went digital" and all those analog components were getting very expensive. Towards the end, I heard it was more expensive to produce them than the new digital top dogs. Oh how I would love to have an XL Pro analog with an up-converted digital screen! That will never be.......tone ID assignment on my V3i tends to stop me from whining though!

Ahh....it would be so nice to blend in things from the past. I will always have an analog box as my ear processes it naturally and this does lessen fatigue for me. End of day and average coin hunts, love 'em. (I can just bust through more dirt and conditions with the V3i.) So...no one machine is an "end all".

 

[Bill G]

For quality of audio info only, it is a slam dunk for me to say my older analog machines. (I still have one, borrow others, and "go old school" occasionally just because of it alone.) The analogs were made as long as it was possible and were discontinued because the world had "went digital" and all those analog components were getting very expensive. Towards the end, I heard it was more expensive to produce them than the new digital top dogs. Oh how I would love to have an XL Pro analog with an up-converted digital screen! That will never be.......tone ID assignment on my V3i tends to stop me from whining though!

Ahh....it would be so nice to blend in things from the past. I will always have an analog box as my ear processes it naturally and this does lessen fatigue for me. End of day and average coin hunts, love 'em. (I can just bust through more dirt and conditions with the V3i.) So...no one machine is an "end all".

So True So True..I got the same information from White's a few years back around 2006. I still have the e-mail reply back from them saved about the cost and state regulations concerning analog detectors and there production which is why they stopped producing the XL Pro according to White's. Again I don't know all the details nor do I claim too. But it's funny to me they still produce the Sierra Madre specialty detector and it's an analog detector with the analog meter screen similar to the 6000 series or XL Pro detectors.....I think the digital meters were the thing of the future and company's do what they have to do to stay in business and sell detectors (keep up with the times) just like any successful company would do..

Happy & Safe Hunting,
Bill G

 

[Hombre]

What is the worst sounding White's detector.........


The IDX Pro has the worst sounding audio (muffled boink sound) I have ever experienced with the many detectors I have owned thru the years. With that said, it is the best detector in trash that I have ever experienced. I have tried Killer B's, Koss, R.A.T. Phones and the Calrad phones, none of these headhones helped with the dismal audio of the two Classic models I have used (Classic ID & IDX Pro). I threw the Calrads in the trash, these phones are helpless, spineless, dickless absolutely worst headphones I have ever tried, they came free (still overpriced) with one of my new detectors, and still cost me some finds I'm sure.....The best Headphones for My IDX Pro is the DetectorPro UniProbe with the built in PI probe. This is not a plug for the UniProbe, BUT for Me they make the IDX Pro come alive!!! They make the IDX Pro have a more "Brilliant" audio signal, not the muffled audio that is less descriptive than the other model White's I have owned in the following paragraph.

I have owned the XLT and DFX, they sounded the same to me in mono-tone. Nice, full, rich, and descriptive in the audio if using quality headphones. The XLT just worked better in the operating characteristics. The tone ID did not work for me with these two detectors, Too many tones, 191, if I remember right. The 5900/6000 Pro XL have the best mono tone audio with their descriptive analog 'Ping"sound. My 6000 Pro XL has the Mrand/ Bill Lahr 4 tone audio modification, this detector Rocks in the more open, less target rich areas. The Mrand tone mod on the 6000 Pro XL is sweet and with it's well separated tones, no overruns/blended audio Just 4 well spaced, destinctely defined audio zones, and with the flip of a switch I can revert back to the mono-tone audio...Nice.

 

[wishiwasngallup]

I belive the v3i is it.