Ratphones??

[D Wes]

The Rat phones are very good and the best that I have used. With the Filter installed for Minelab you get allot more Volume out of them and a very different sound that takes some getting used to, but really helps with the deep ones. We have tried them with a Garret Ace 250 and with the Filter on it was Awesome to say the least, The Volume increase and tone was impressive and very loud. My last outing in Sedial Mo. I was very blessed to get to hunt some Virgin yards that produced allot of Old Nickels,and Silver Quarters that I hardly ever find any more. Testing with the filter I would of not dug the Nickels, but with the Filter on it made
all the difference, they were deep and the soil was Sandy.

 

[Rick(ND)]

This has a lot to do with a person hearing I feel. I am very hard of hearing, but I get many deep ones and hear many targets some do not. I use the Timberwolfs on my Sovereigns and find they are the loudest I have found that i tried on the Sovereigns. I did try 2 different sets of the Ratphones and they are good headphones too, but just didn't have the volume I needed for me and i know many have them and do well with them. I just wanted to say if you need the volume like some of us do the Timberwolfs are the loudest I have tried. I have tried the Ratphones, the Troy Pros (these are the loudest on my Explorer)the GG originals, the GT Ultimate, The GG NDT, the Sun Ray Pros, The Killer Bees, the GG Black widows and some German made ones that cost $200 plus 3 different sets of Koss, but for me with the bad hearing the Timberwolfs are the loudest and the ones I can hear the tones response with.

Rick

 

[Rick@Detect USA]

It's just perception. The very low frequencies are filtered (if the Sov mod is installed), making the highs just seem louder without changing the mid and upper quality. The Sov has some deep lows that when heard on full band speakers can drown out the highs. The Sov's audio is not very balanced frequency wise.
You can perceive more volume on speakers that are tuned to the midrange, but you loose a lot of character and the ability to hear subtle differences in targets. For those with hearing problems or those that don't care about differences in targets, get phones with narrow response speakers. But make sure you bring asprin with you for long hunts.

I always say, if you want the loudest home stereo, replace your speakers with bull horns. You will no longer hear all the instruments, but it will be appear louder because all the power will be concentrated in a narrow frequency range.

In popular detector phones I feel you have 4 choices due to 4 different speakers. There is Koss which sound great, Ratphones (as clear with more comfort and more rugged), Troy's (my next choice) and the 4th is all the other brands (which sound alike because they use the same speakers). Then you decide on the cup, The 24db cups have thinner walls and I feel the audio sounds muted. The 29db cup is more full and isolated.

We have recordings you can listen to on our web site.

 

[tperez]

Hi,
I have just been given a pair of this excellent phones. They are wired up for the Tesoro Tejon and they work perfect. Problem is I want to use them in my Fisher F75 and cannot get them to work. I have tried all possible settings combination, ends of cable reversed etc, and even a new (from another set of phones with detachable curly lead) cable with one mono and one stereo jack connector but all I get with this lead is extremely faint audio or no audio when the switch is flicked to other side. Does anyone know what is happening here? Any advise will be much appreciated. Tony

 

[Rick(ND)]

Check out this site as he is the one that makes the Ratphones and he can tell you what you need to do. http://www.detectusa.com/

 

[BlackX]

I presume not but it sure would be nice to have a set w/ parametric EQ built in. (Particularly if you could adjust the filter width as well as the f.)

 

[James Edison]

Ya, that is true of what Rick has said, based on my experience with Ratphones...you are just hearing what your machine sounds like...