Minelab GPX 6000 vs GPX 5000 Metal Detector 

I tried my 45 today against a 6000 on a dot sized piece of gold and even with the nugget finder 17 in eliptical coil I could still hear the target.

That's what I'm thinking as well

The Sadie coil gives a significant performance boost to tiny targets compared to an 11" on the 5000- making it a far more fair comparison. The 11" coil in this instance likely would not have heard that target either.

Yea, learning to use the settings is key. You can have the best machine and the best coil, but that won't beat someone who can in a split second adjust the right setting for maximum performance. It's like building a computer, once it's built and running it's great and running as advertised, but if you now about overclocking both the CPU and the GPU, you can get like 20% to 30% better performance over strait out of the box. Also i use a GPX 5000 and i have dug to China over a tiny bit of lead shot like that so that Sadie Coil must be broke lol. Look i love this channel and watch all the live streams and what not, but it's clear this is more of a add to push sales for the GPX 6000 whilst making the GPX 5000 seem outdated, which is cool because it's literally his business to sell and promote detectors 😁 P.S you watch, a year from now i will be like "The GPX 6000 is way better than the GPX 5000!" 🤣

I'm on the fence too. I have the SDC 2300 and it's been a struggle deciding on my 2nd one. Plan on coming to Montana and Idaho this Fall to use them. Live in ND

the sadie is a mono coil. There are a load of things which influence any machines ability to hear targets. I once found a 2grm nugget that was only 2" deep and gave only the slightest murmur on the 7000- when dug out, it produced a much louder response due to the orientation of the piece changing. Interestingly, that same piece would not respond even when rubbed on the coil of an sdc2300 and Gpx5000. Not all targets will respond to all machines, no matter how they are set up!

@@MinersDenAustralia Yes agree with that . I have had that as well.

the 5000 was given the advantage by having a smaller coil on

yes.... it was like that when the 7000 came out too :( at least you know you aren't leaving gold behind :P

@@MinersDenAustralia got two little bits this arvo with it though 😀

Having owned a 4500, 5000, Sdc and 7000 i can tell you the 6000 leaves all of them in the dust on 1/2grm and under. I have been very surprized what i have turned up out of my favourite proving grounds

@@MinersDenAustralia as stated fantastic machine. As a comparison a 11 inch elite or 12 evo would be better suited as per the 11 inch on the 6k.

on a 5000, that 8x6 coil will give a much sharper response to tiny targets like this compared to a 12" evo. This should be a more than fair comparison.... well not really, to be really fair you can't compare the 5000 to the 6000 when it comes to small targets, the 6000 is in a class of it's own.

they are about the same overall or large targets. the 6000 will get better depth on small targets though

i agree, would of smoked that with my 4500 and a elite coil set right

I think it is called 'the modern day prospector' by Cliff Berry. unfortunately the album is no longer available and not online anywhere sorry :( Gold Digger Dave was part of the production so still has permission to use the music.

using the same size coil on the 5000 will put it at a big disadvantage- ie using an 11" on both machines. The 8*6 coil on the 5000 is far more sensitive

the Gpx5000, Sdc2300 and Gpz7000 have no discrimination ability either- no Pulse Induction / gold prospecting machines really do. This is due to the physics behind how detectors work- every piece of gold gives a different signal thereby making it impossible to accurately id targets- some nuggets will give a mix of ferrous and non ferrous signal, some larger pieces are highly conductive and small pieces are only low conductive, meaning that any machine with discrimination will leave gold behind if you rely on discrimination to determine which targets to dig. You should dig every target in a goldfield for this reason. Then you also have gold that is underneath trash- if your machine tells you a target is rubbish and you walk away you may have potentially left a great nugget behind that was deeper underneath the trash target. For gold prospecting machines, the most important aspect is it's ability to eliminate the signals from ground mineralization- that is what lets the machine see the tiniest pieces right down to the absolute deepest pieces- this is where Vlf detectors (with discrimination) fail in goldfields. Their technology can't handle highly mineralized soil resulting in drastic loss of depth and sensitivity.