I'm agreeing with you a bit. I've never thought the DFX was good on depth, and I've had one for...7 years? The old Eagle Spectrum handily whoops it on depth every time by roughly 50%. The DFX, however, handily spanked the Eagle Spectrum on identifying nickels and better eliminating bottlecaps. So, if the Vision won't at least match the 9" in dry ground on a wheatie or a small, thin, dime sized sales tax token also at 9" I've gotten with the Spectrum, that 20% means nothing. The DFX even with stock coil almost always is off by 1-3" on depth in my ground (stating deeper than is), and seems to have trouble past 6".
Now, in those videos I saw a couple things:
1) It appeared that maybe the legendary lock-on of the Eagle Spectrum has returned. VDI on a DFX tends to float around a lot (I see that on the F-75 videos, same lead engineer/designer). The Spectrum always locked on, and it APPEARS that is returning with this model. If so, I'm doing the happy dance on that, and about time!
2) The nickel in the test appeared to lock on at 19, but the subsequent one bumped to 22? The DFX also locked on nickels well (the only coin that did so) at 19, 16 for a "V" in my soil. Not sure what happened on that wave in front of the machine, looked like maybe just waved once? I bet if he re-waved it 3-4 times would lock at 19 again. That makes a clear separation for pulltabs. It appears to be the same on nickels that the DFX is, which I've dug many with but never one with my Spectrum. I currently have trouble with Indian head pennies on BOTH machines, so curious what the VISION does on those for helping make that determination.
3) I'm mixed on the Analyze function. I WANT to believe it's going to really be useful, but watch how much the waveform changes on each wave, including even being INVERTED once!. You really have to sweep quite a few times to get an accurate idea, just like with the regular signagraph. If you didn't know what it was, and weren't looking at VDI number, I'm not sure you'd dig or not dig based on that. If you have to have the VDI, you're now kind of back to why aren't you just using the VDI to begin with / not getting much use out of the Analyze. In other words, is it REALLY useful, or just really neat / cool / my mind plays tricks and says yes cause I WANT it to work? That being said, from others, it does appear it will knock out some of the screwcaps using Analyze that read as quarters, but so far that's the ONLY benefit I can swear to be seeing. I'm still not getting other than it will detect jewelry well how it's going to help me recover more jewelry from the trash in that so far the analyze screens for junk and jewelry look pretty alike that I have seen.
4) I already made this comment in the earlier post, but the "see you can tell it's on edge" doesn't seem to tell me that. I'm afraid if you say that and then start LOOKING for how it does, you'll find SOME reason. Reminds me of psychology class where they would play a record backwards and you couldn't hear a message, but then they'd give you one, play it back again, and suddenly you'd hear it. Then later, they'd do it again when you forgot what it sounded like and give you a different message after you couldn't and then you'd hear the new one instead on playback! That demonstration of "on edge"is reminding me of that way too much. Now it's on edge....see the difference?
Oh, and thank you for the videos! Those of us who can't see / play with one yet are drooling over wanting more!
