Someone suggest some settings for me to try. Appears many got scared to test some gold chains. So far on my first day I would say take things as an adjustment kind of thing. But I did try a couple settings so far and the Equinox didn't pick up gold chains any better in beach mode than my CTX did when I found them in the wild. I will say I got a flake off a broke gold ring and a micro chain I didn't think anything would pick up. Well the EQ in stock prospect mode in pinpoint was singing like a bird at 4 inches. That being said if you are on the fence and want me to test it with someones settings, let me know all of the settings. Even volume. I know a test I did in pinpoint when she got a little noisy I could shape my hands around the battery in the handle like a C and it calmed down. So even your hand position may do something?No set in stone data here. Just know that nobody out there mastered the Equinox in a week. I can tell you with the krap in my yard it can pick up more than you care to dig though.