Who uses their wired headphones with the Equinox or Manticore detectors?

[fwcrawford]

I'm using Sunray Pro Gold style for my Manticores. Since Pro Golds are no longer available and my old ones were toast I purchased the parts and assembled some new pairs myself. I upgraded a few things. Also eliminated all the toggles and volume adjusters, not needed on the Manticore. I use them with the WM09. Tried to go back to corded Sunrays via the Minelab 1/8 to 1/4 adapter cable, wow so annoying to be attached to the detector again. Hence this WM09 setup.

The wiring is very straight forward for Manticore. Speakers in series (not parallel). From jack tip to first speaker +, then from first speaker - to second speaker +, from second speaker - back to jack ring. Tie the jack sleave also to the ring, this tells the detector headphones are plugged in and to turn off the external speaker.

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Just curious… did you utilize the 1/8”-1/4” Minelab cable into those headphones or actually make that cord up also.
You did a great job either way!!

 

[Fishnmaine]

I use my DetectorPro Uniprobe and my $15 Sony earbuds with my WM09 works perfect

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[Charles (Upstate NY)]

Just curious… did you utilize the 1/8”-1/4” Minelab cable into those headphones or actually make that cord up also.
You did a great job either way!!

Thanks, yes I cut the 1/4 inch plug off the Minelab adapter cable and hard wired that end into the headphones.

 

[Justme]

i no longer use headphones. I use vibrate function, have been since i had an anfibio

 

[Jason-ks]

Just curious… did you utilize the 1/8”-1/4” Minelab cable into those headphones or actually make that cord up also.
You did a great job either way!!

I used the Minelab cable that I bought for 20 bucks online , (I wish I would have bought this a whole lot earlier), and now i have used both the Sunray Gold's and the Killer B's both work great with cable. Now im going to start looking into low latency ear buds to use with the Equinox. I'm going to purchase a pair of SoundCore Liberty Air 2's to first try out and later im going to experiment with some Bose wireless earbuds.

 

[Getoffmyland]

I was just curious who all uses their wired headphones plugged into the 1/4 inch to 1/8 inch adapter, offered by Minelab? I love my wireless headphones, but have been thinking about using my SunRay Golds with this connector instead of the wireless headphones.

I used wired headphones directly into the nox800 unit for a few weeks as i was having connection issues with the wireless headphones. I think going direct I heard better clearer signals(I read the wireless headphones are not the best for detector use, I think they are re badged sony).

I have sold my nox now but I did find a lot of delays when Sweeping that I believe was due to the delay in the signal getting sent to the headphones. I do swing quite fast though. It was quite annoying how far a target was out from where it beeped. Even on fast recovery.

Unfortunately I did not look to see if this processing delay was the latency on the headphones or the unit being slow to decide.

I sold my nox as for the extra money it cost compared to a Deeptech I was finding the same items and same number of items. It also liked our UK iron.

 

[pmh]

For water hunting, yes. For land hunting, normally not. The convenience of wireless is hard to give up once youve tried it. Some people claim there is a bit of sound degradation/integrity using wireless headphones (from interference, internal component issues etc) and I tend to believe them, but to what amount? I'd imagine the amount of loss is almost indistinguishable vs wired, but its probably there to some degree. If you're hardcore and want the absolute best sound integrity possible, then hardwired would be the way to go. I kinda think most people prefer the trade off of comfort and convenience of wireless headphones and dont mind the vague possibility of missing a good target they might have heard had they been using wired headphones.