Minelab X-Terra Pro vs Equinox 600 Salt Water Beach Showdown 14 kt Gold Ring Single vs Multi 

I didn’t ground balance either machine , I never do at beach in beach Mode it’s set to zero automatically . I did forget to do a noise cancel on Xterra and I also used the mostly dry sand mode had I used beach 2 it might not have chattered at 23 I will test this again better.

Right I hear APX 2 low latency works with 600 not sure if they do at all on Xterra

This was a HORRIBLE test for a single vs multi machine on a wet sand beach. Let’s see him using the single frequency machine during an entire outing. He would go crazy with all the false signals. Now in dirt, for silver, give me 5khz single frequency machine any day.

I run my sensitivity higher than most in salt water with this (18)to the point I will get occasional weak beeps but I also ran it at 15 sense for a bit yesterday and it had zero falsing there , to run beach mode it uses 8 kHz you can’t change frequencies if you are on beach mode but in fresh water I would think you could use the other modes and any frequency like 15khz that would hit small better

@ifindmetal I just got the detector yesterday and ran it in park 2 because that only discriminates out iron and 15 herzt. Just what's needed for jewelry. Found a Stainless ring and some coins. Was getting small foil pieces plenty deep. This detector does everything my At Pro does and more for freshwater hunting. I could spend 1100-1400 dollars on a detector and it wouldn't give me anything more for hunting in freshwater. Minelab really hit back hard against the Simplex. Can understand why Nokta is upset.

If you can’t find it online try Bass Pro shops

Gonna do a full water test soon

Everything I read on Beach 1 was Dry sand at salt beach for Nox and 2 was wet sand /water , but with this X-terra pro it says 1 for dry and wet and 2 for submerged water . I will go back and do another better test where I noise cancel both and do both beach modes , trying to do in water this early is pointless because the deposits aren’t there at this beach it was just replenished ( dredged ) this past winter with ten feet plus of sand

@@ifindmetal It's probably been a long time since you checked the Nox's manual, I know it has for me, but it says right in there that Beach 1 is for "Wet/Dry" sand and Beach2 is for "Underwater/Surf". Honestly, any mode works on completely dry sand and when it comes to finding gold with the 600 on dry sand, Park 2 and Field 2 work the best. Do an air test and you'll see that those 2 will pick up small gold way better that all the other modes...by a good margin. HH

@@p1315 I will try that when I go next on dry sand thanks for tip

Thanks I’m Subbed to your channel too . Yeah I didn’t noise cancel it but it still seemed to work better gonna do more videos testing it soon

Thanks 🙏

It’s not first diagnostic I looked for when I saw it was 55 was that at best it could be poor man’s but those are easy to come bye

Well the 600 has advantages of using 3 frequencies at once but some would debate that it even helps , it definitively is super stable in saltwater , the Xterra pro has multiple frequencies also but only selectable 1 at a time , it’s decently stable in salt water too , the $600 costs around $600 US the Xterra is $279 US . The Xterra can use its line of coils or any of the ones for the Equinox as well where as the Equinox cannot use the Xterra coils. , if you have the money get the 600 if you don’t the Xterra will work great

@@ifindmetal Equinox 600 in single frequencies works on 3, in multi it uses full bands of 6 frequencies, just like 700, 800 and 900

Yeah idk how you would work the geometry out on it but it’s bigger and yet it’s not lol but it definitely picked up that ring better that day I plan on doing a much better more comprehensive comparison video soon stay tuned for that one, also plan on testing out Equinox stock coil on it to see it if works as good

@@ifindmetal Depth tests seem about the same on the X-TERRA PRO, Equinox and Manticore, I'm thinkin the one inch smaller coil on the X-Terra Pro may have more depth allowing for a higher sensitivity adjustment, not sure? I may just buy the 11" coil, I bought the Nokta Simplex six months ago but never used it, tho it may have more depth than the new Simplex Ultra as it works with 12MHz, I think Nokta is crazy raising the frequency to 15MHz. Can't wait to see your video of the X-Terra Pro with the 11" coil, love the X-Terra Pro!

Check these videos out, in his same test garden both machines have the same depth, gotta love the X-Terra Pro :-) X-Terra Pro: Cheap but Amazing! All Search Modes Tested! Minelab Manticore First Run Through The Test Garden - 16 Targets Impressive!

@@michaelbariso3192 what videos and where can I see them?

I feel like the dp tones setting hits a little deeper than the other tones..

I haven’t used a 700 but it’s obviously better than the Xterra you get what you pay for , but the 700 is $700 if you want a cheaper option the Xterra will find 95 percent of what a 700 would for less than half the price

@@kellystrangelove both machines recovery speed 3

Yes ,but you can just hit the all metal button

It was but did you notice it hit the target better at the same level the Nox was barely hitting it ? I run that 600 at this beach exclusively and 21 is max you can run it in water and even then it will false a tiny bit

Is this the only video of mine you have seen ? No I don’t buy things to review and I don’t get free stuff , I did these comparisons because I was tired of people trash talking the machine I bought it as a back up machine it is a great machine I take it out over the 600 all the time

@@ifindmetal This was my first video i've seen of yours. That's good to hear you're not one of those people whom buys just to review then returns it.I only own a equnox but you own both.So can you tell me the difference of the 8khz mode on the equnox vs the x-terra? because on the equnox you can turn multi on and off and switch between the frequency.

@@Grunty_Thirst yes at the beach in the salt water and heavy black sands it ( for me so far ) has operated the same I don’t obsess over the VDIs being rock stable like everyone else the thing with the Xterra is almost every person runs the gain too high you do not need the sens set high to get good depth with it The 8 kHz seems to work great in the water which is the biggest test I still use my 600 mostly because it’s got the shortest warranty time left

@@ifindmetal but what's the difference of the 8khz on the xterra vs the equnox? because on the equnox you can pick if you want all frequency used at once or you can use one at a time like the xterra. does the xterra have better software/algorithm for finding metals?

@@Grunty_Thirst the processor is definitely faster on the Xterra it’s only working on a single frequency at once , you can tell it’s faster by the startup alone when you turn on your 600 count how long it take to give you the Minelab beeps to let you know it’s booted up and then do it on the Xterra it’s almost instant as far as the 8 kHz goes allergy higher frequency is more responsive to small gold like what a stud earring would have but the 8khz is great in the salt some People have theory’s that in beach mode on the Xterra it’s actually doing SMF and that Minelab lies because most people are convinced that you can’t get a VLF single frequency to work in salt water and be stable I’m On the fence on that one either way it finds jewelry and coins just fine , it also does a better job at ignoring tent stakes than the 600 does

That’s always something I can try , but that 8 kHz responds the best in the salt water and black sand , been using it fully submerged in water for past week found 4 rings today will be posting a video either today or tomorrow probably if my initial review of it in water

@@ifindmetal 15khz will pick up gold much better than 8khz higher khz the better it is on gold

Well they both work flawlessly in the salt water , I want to do some more side by side control tests before I say it , but I have had the Xterra Pro in the water all the way this week have very few targets still in water but after this warm week I think I will have some footage for another video on it’s in the water tests

@@ifindmetal thx for asking bro... I'm almost buy one. I prefer X terra pro cuz is good price to my pocket

@@maxwellpsilva yeah it’s a great machine and I would say the best value for performance there is on the market , No other single frequency machine works good at the beach besides the Pulse induction machines

@@ifindmetal wow, thx bro

Im not getting any noise anyways and it’s Auto tracking ground balance and beach 2 starts at zero which is what you need on a salt beach

@@ifindmetal so on salt water sand, the default is always zero in default? I can't wait to get to the beach with mine..

@@SteveMiller-yw7kv yeah it will auto track the ground balance if you set it to auto track

@@ifindmetal you had it in beach 1 (also wrong mode for wet sand) and didn't mention that you had it in tracking gb. And why show people the wrong way to noise cancel?

@@jasonobrien8861 who told you that ? Minelab says that beach 1 works fine in wet sand and 2 is for in the water and surf . As far as “ Needing “ to ground balance that’s bull first of all you have drastic ground change in sand conditions by just walking ten feet in mineralized sand so doing a set does you no good because two steps and it’s gonna be off, trackingworks perfectly , as far as depth goes as it is it picks up rings and coins easily at a foot you won’t gain much more and the targets aren’t deeper and even if they were you will be chasing the sand refilling faster than can you can scoop it in the wet/water, as far as noise canceling holding the coil up changes nothing the coil picks up interference where it’s being swung which is near the ground so why would holding it up make and difference if it’s not getting any

I know the machine it’s running at optimum setting for that beach it goes plenty deep enough , there is a limit of stability and depth LEARN that unless you like listening to contestant falses I’m not running the slowest possible recovery at a beach full of iron sorry , also ten inches in the wet/ water is about as far a you can dig effectively you would have to be an idiot to think you are digging deeper in the water where the sand immediately as you are pulling the scoop out is refilling . The Xterra has pulled foil wrappers at the Depths you are stating in the wet I have included it in a few of my videos , this comparison video was with the same settings as close as possible in fact I didn’t even do a noise cancel on the XTP and I had tracking GB on the 600 so it had that advantages as well

Right they probably aren’t gonna like my channel much because I plan on doing some extensive Salt water hunting with this and if I can show people this works perfectly at beach why would they need an $700-$1000 Equinox right ?