xlt- vs- dfx

[maxcrucial]

hi,
what is the best one? ....is the dfx better than xlt? troy

 

[Monte]

n/t

 

[Va Dave]

What Monte said. Been swinging Spectrums for 16 years now, got talked into the DFX when it was time to renew, gave it a good hard 14 months straight, nothing else was put in the truck, and well, last month I traded it back to my dealer for the XLT. Feels great to be back to my ole self again. My main issue was Depth, being I hunt CW Relics in area's that most likely have been beat to death by others, so Depth is of the utmost importance. I will say the DFX is a little more versatile for certain types of detecting though and is still a productive detector, but in my book, doesn't earn its ranks as
"Top Dog" .

Dave

 

[Larry (IL)]

The XLT might be the best machine for YOU, in your hunting conditions and style. The best detector for anyone is the one that they know how to use and feel comfortable with. Put my vote in the DFX column.

 

[Dave Z]

I hunted all my spots to death up here with an xlt from 1991-2000.Went back to everyone of them with the DFX and found out just how much I missed.It's too much machine for a lot of guys,but if your patient and take time to learn it,you'll do fine.One old farm house I went back to that I had hit several times with the xlt and found only a few wheaties showed me how much better the dfx was.I found about 20 indian head pennies,3 large cents,7 barber dimes,10 v nickels,2 barber quarters,2 standing liberty quarters,dog tags,tokens,etc.You'd think the place had never been searched before.ALL the targets wer over 6,7 inches and most were around iron.This went on at all my sites,was great.Found 4 more barber dimes at a very small hole this winter that I had hit hard with the xlt.Again,they were all over 7" deep.There is NO comparison between the two machines.If you want to talk saltwater beaches,it will get even worse for the old xlt.I dono't think it will go 1/3 as deep as the dfx on the beaches.DAve

 

[therover]

Dave...when you went back to those sites, were you running dual or single freq ?

Tell you one thing...mixed mode on the dfx in either dual or single is the tops. I love running in 15kHz on the beach with the VDI norm off...it's separates the target signals so much better.

Whatever the case may be, if you know how to use the DFX, you can hunt practically anywhere (at the beach, trash, iron) and set the machine up for optimal results. Hey, it may take a few extra minutes, but if your other detector can't work at all, whats setting up in 10 seconds gonna do if the thing can't work ?

Different detectors for different situatations, but the DFX IS multiple detectors in one great unit. And in my opinion, the information you get on a target is one of the best of any detector. Some may think it does not go deep ( which it does ,) but I know one thing, discrimination and target ID wise, the VDI and Signagraph on it is top of the line.

And if a detector cannot separate good from bad targets and hit good targets that may get masked by iron, then it does not matter how deep it can go (unless you are diggin everything).

Peace

 

[Dave Z]

I would use the dual freqs.at the beach.Depth is unbelieveable on saltwater beaches.I used the spectrum/xlts for 10 years and now the dfx for 5.Problem is that a lot of these buy,try and trash guys buy one,load a factory program and use it for about an hour.Then come out with a three page field test on it,telling us about why they don't like it and why it has no depth.These guys crack me up.I hunted with Brandon(NY) the other day.I threw down an indian head penny I found,took his headphones of his dfx and started sweeping over it.I wanted to show him how too slow a sweep speed would cause him to lose depth.I was getting a signal on that IH lying on top of the ground with the coil between 12-15" off the ground.(I think his dfx may go deeper than mine.You don't have to believe me on this,you can email him and ask him yourself.Haven't used the mixed mode much.Its too noisy for the sites I hunt and I don't see any more depth with it then I get with the program i'm using now.I've had the dfx for 5 years and still toy with the programming and learn new things.I guess that's why I get such a kick out of these self proclaimed experts who used one once for 10 minutes.Dave

 

[Pap]

As a past XLT owner/user I totally agree. Like you, I suspect part of the problem may come from not being able to give up the "XLT Mentality" and understand that while the two detectors look alike they are different.
Pap