As for hunting relics in thick iron the MAX stinks.......and I wouldn't take it to a iron loaded relic site to actually hunt with it if you gave it to me.
the AT MAX is a dog in iron loaded sites ...
DOGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Personal insults don't change the fact that your AT MAX is a dud detector in iron....and its audio stinks.
What you call bashing I just call giving the facts...good or bad...
Sure doesn't look like a review - looks a lot like bashing to me. If someone uses terms like "Stinks" and "Dog" without quantifying them, it's just incendiary rhetoric intentionally done to annoy people under the guise of "just giving my opinion".
It's kind of like saying "Pit bulls suck." You might have legitimate reasons for having that opinion, but if you leave it at that, then you're just intentionally poking a stick at pit bull owners, and certainly not contributing anything meaningful to a discussion.
BTW the main problem is it has no iron volume and the iron tone overrides everything else if you have iron audio on or the disc ran down low. Garrett could have put a iron volume on it and it would have helped a lot.
Now this is good, meaningful information. Contributes intelligently to a discussion about a detector. Too bad you only added that as a side note, and made "the Max stinks and is a dog in iron" the primary thought of all your previous comments in the thread.
So, if the "main" problem is iron volume, it sounds like you just don't like how the detector sounds. I can relate to that, because I knocked a detector or two off my list for upgrade regardless of performance because I couldn't get past the fact that the tones sounded like a dog chewing on a squeaky toy or a clown playing with a slide whistle. Certain tone qualities get annoying for folks when you have to listen to it all day. Makes sense.
If there were an iron audio volume included on the AT Max would you be satisfied with the performance enough to give it a "passing" review? Or does your sweeping and harsh review of "stinks" and "dog" cover other specific performance areas that you deem
completely unsatisfactory other than how the detector presents the information to your ears?