Does anyone out there have any experience with this machine? I'm thinking of picking one up and am looking for user opinions. I've read a few posts where folks have called it one of Tesoro's all-time best detectors and some others where folks have said that it's superior to the newer Silver uMAX. I believe it was manufactured from '97 through '01 (roughly the same manufacturing time-frame as the Bandido II uMAX). Like the Silver uMAX, the Compadre, the Cibola and a few others, the Sabre's ground balance feature is factory preset.
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Silver Sabre uMAX Opinions
- Thread starter berryman
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Sven
Well-known member
The Silver Sabre umax has desirable features most treasure hunters want and like to have.
The Silver Sabre has a true all metal mode
The Silver Sabre has better audio
I think the Silver Sabre has better disc. mode.
Depth wise comparable to other Tesoros
It was just a good all around detector that works well in most situations. Not a miracle detector like some seem to think it is.
Add manual ground balance mod to it...............makes for a very nice detector.
A good step up from the SS umax was the Eldorado.
Like most newer Tesoros, The Silver Sabre was replaced, morphed into a new detector(s) with a few more options and called.............
Then a number of years later, the Silver Sabre was brought back as the Silver umax with a lot less features.
You will also see down the road, the Cibby took on some of the SS umax's original looks. I would take the SS umax over the Cibby.
Monte has a better handle on this.
The Silver Sabre has a true all metal mode
The Silver Sabre has better audio
I think the Silver Sabre has better disc. mode.
Depth wise comparable to other Tesoros
It was just a good all around detector that works well in most situations. Not a miracle detector like some seem to think it is.
Add manual ground balance mod to it...............makes for a very nice detector.
A good step up from the SS umax was the Eldorado.
Like most newer Tesoros, The Silver Sabre was replaced, morphed into a new detector(s) with a few more options and called.............
Then a number of years later, the Silver Sabre was brought back as the Silver umax with a lot less features.
You will also see down the road, the Cibby took on some of the SS umax's original looks. I would take the SS umax over the Cibby.
Monte has a better handle on this.
BarberBill
New member
Sven, I beg to differ - the Silver umax is more of a Cutlass II umax clone than a Silver Sabre umax.
BB
BB
By "more pronounced subtleties" I suspect you're probably referring to the fact that the older Tesoro uMAX machines use 600HZ modulated audio circuitry. Monte has spoken about this subject and has said that with a modulated audio response, close targets produce the loudest or strongest audio response and, as target distances away from the search coil increase, the signal strength gets weaker and the audio is now "modulated" or diminished. He's apparently a fan of modulated audio because, when coin hunting, it provides more audio definition about the target's size or shape or depth. He goes on to say that modulated audio circuitry usually affords the best depth potential while hunting in motion discriminate mode. BTW - many of the newer Tesoro machines apparently employ "saturated" audio circuitry. This circuitry provides signal audio responses that are at full audio strength, regardless of target depth.
Sven
Well-known member
berryman said:
That's why its harder for me as well as others to determine size and depth of a target. One reason I did not care for the Cibola or Vaquaro. I had to toggle back and forth from disc to all metal modes when trying to classify a target with these two detectors. For those that are hard of hearing or have a hearing impairement of some kind might prefer the Cibola and Vaq.