If your detecting in freshwater, the Tiger is an excellent detector. Mine found lots of gold and silver. You will be suprised to find really small stuff.Had mine for 3 years.
Then picked up a used OLDER 1280x and had it recalibrated by Fisher. I liked it just as well as the Tiger, actually liked the tone response better, more pleasing to my ears.
It's a toss up between those two, if Tesoro would change the tone or have a tone adjustment. I'd get another.
Sold both of those guys and bought a Detectorpro Wader which I like for the compactness and works very well. For some reason I don't think it's a good as the above two. But, I'm keeping it because it excells over the other two in saltwater.
