Beach Test: The Ultimate Multi-Frequency Metal Detector Showdown! Garrett, Minelab, Nokta, XP Part 2

In this video I compare the 4 top metal detector manufactures flag ship multi frequency metal detectors at the beach. They are the Garrett Ace Apex, Minelab Manticore, Nokta Legend & XP Deus

[TexasTimelapse]

Very very interesting video. Thanks for taking the time to make this video!

[DaveAffleck]

Great live comparison Andrew! The D2 looks pretty sweet. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

[jeffmcclendon]

Hi Andy, thank you for the all of the work it takes to make these videos. I like the setup of Deus 2, Apex and Manticore for this testing. I don’t understand the setup for the Legend with 2 tones but with ferrous rejected? That pretty much takes away the iron grunts that were also happening on the Manticore, Apex and a little on Deus 2 and contributed to the “weird responses” that you mentioned in the video. Personally, in iron/salt mineralization I would recommend running at least the G discrimination pattern and Pitch tones if you want to just use 2 tones. You could also run in 4 tones which have almost the same tone breaks as Deus 2 three tones with the first non ferrous tone bin ending at 20 which is similar to Deus 2’s 50 and leaves all US coins and mid to larger gold rings as a mid or high tone. Running the F discrimination pattern is not a good idea in my opinion especially on deeper targets. I also would not recommend running the iron filter on 5. Try to run it lower on 1 or 2 like on an Equinox 800 F2 setting for deeper targets that are effected by mineralization.

[tallalabounisrine]

thank you for sharing this video. i think in quality- price the nokta legend is the best

[Randy-ulhy]

This is why I am mostly a sound hunter...all those VID's were all over the place.

[danielblair]

That is some seriously harsh ground to detect in!

[racebannonbfgc]

You are hitting it hard with that shovel my man. Where you are well digger

[dgumby]

What was the software version on the legend at the time of that video?

[morenoschianchi]

Ciao, in quelle condizioni l'apex avrebbe funzionato meglio in Mf piuttosto che in MS. Buona giornata

[jjddhh]

My only question is about recovery speed on the Legend. It seems you ran in higher than the other 2 machines. Why? I feel the choppy responses would have been reduces some with lower recovery. Also I like to run my Legend with as little filtering as possible I find a lot better depth with minimal filtering. I generally try to get the GS as low as possible without it being to sparky and the IF I run on 0 but I also like to dig a majority of my targets.

[roymanewell]

good vid the garret did better than i was led to believe.

[Detectken]

What software version was on the Deus 2? Are you going to compare Deus 2 software version 2.00 vs Manticore on small gold?

[billbarry]

Recovery for the beach should be low unless there is a lot of junk. As you know a high recovery speed means less depth! I notice that you set up the Deus with a recovery of 3 and the Legend with a recovery of 5, why????

[Urge]

The Beast is no more a best than the rest TBH, very disappointing, Nokta had a slight disadvantage being run in wet beach, all the others have a wet beach mode but they was not put into that

[Randy-ulhy]

Geez...is that sand...or concrete..LOL!