Stock headphones vs water headphones

[all iron]

Hi folks
I recently purchased an AT pro that came with the stock headphones.
I hunt in pro mode 99% of the time.
With the stock headphones i have heard and dug many faint high tone signals.

I dont seem to hear them with the water headphones.
Is there any technical explanation of this this? or am i just crazy?

Thanks
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Thanks

 

[knightsquad]

All Iron,

I just got my Blue headset a few days ago and couldn't believe the difference in sound
between the two!
The Blue ones are much more muffled than the land ones right? I wasn't sure if I liked
them but I'll stick with em and see how it goes. Maybe just use them for the water
and use the land ones for land...

Pete

 

[ajaj]

Big difference in sound due to the Blues having silicone present in different area(s) for waterproofing. Now, I'm not 100% on this, but I have used both over the identical areas at a trashy playground and old church yard and pulled coins that one picked up and the other didn't and vica versa. When I say "picked up", I mean diggable signal. The areas I swung in we're small and I remember swinging over the same spots. I think each headphones have their merits although I prefer the land headphones overall (and in a dry environment).

aj

 

[Barry NY]

You will never be able to 100% replicate the "tone" sounds delivered by a "land" paper cone speaker headphone when comparing to piezo "speakers" used for underwater phones. The physics of the materials used for the different speaker systems are totally different. It's not just the silicone as mentioned above - although silicon is a factor in the poor performance of all other underwater headphones besides the Gray Ghost Amphibians.

However, with the newly engineered design of the Amphibian we have taken underwater headphones to a whole new level - delivering tone sounds never before available from a piezo type speaker. Coupled with the volume control - the Amphibian is ideal for land detecting where subtle tone nuances are important...They are the only phones you'll need for your AT.

For water detecting - you are digging everything not iron - so discerning tone nuances was never really that important...and that's why previously no one has spent the effort to develop a better underwater headphone. The advent of the all-terrain (AT) land /water detectors has precipitated the need for underwater headphones to deliver better sound.

All Iron,

I just got my Blue headset a few days ago and couldn't believe the difference in sound
between the two!
The Blue ones are much more muffled than the land ones right? I wasn't sure if I liked
them but I'll stick with em and see how it goes. Maybe just use them for the water
and use the land ones for land...

Pete

 

[bigtim1973]

If your not snorkeling then why do you need the waterproof ones anyways?

 

[Barry NY]

If you're ever detecting in the water...even wading...and you bend over to retrieve a target, or you drop your machine and the phones slip off your head and get dunked...you'll have your question answered...

If your not snorkeling then why do you need the waterproof ones anyways?

 

[mudpuppy]

I cut and soldered on a right angle 1/4 stereo plug to the stock land headphones that came with the Pro and use them on a different manufacturers machine, I keep the waterproof Blue Garrett headphones on the Pro all the time for the reasons Barry mentioned, wading and rain storms and all..its really nice to hunt in the rain...a feller has got to have waterproof headphones of some sort to maximize the Pro's strengths. One thing about 'phones, gotta be good and dependable and hear those tones, can really make a year for you.
Mud

 

[BigCatDaddy]

Been there, done that!! Pfffftttt goes the phones!!

If you're ever detecting in the water...even wading...and you bend over to retrieve a target, or you drop your machine and the phones slip off your head and get dunked...you'll have your question answered...

If your not snorkeling then why do you need the waterproof ones anyways?