Deus question

REAL_RAT_FINK · May 3, 2018

I'm considering buying a Deus because I mainly hunt parks, love quick recovery, and discrimination is important. It being SUPER light is a HUGE plus. My only draw back is this, I need a detector that has a speaker built-in WITH volume control. (I'm not a headphone kind of detectorist... not my style)

But when I'm out early in the morning and my detector BEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEP BEEEEEPS away, alerting everyone in a 5 mile radius of my presence, it's a huge drawback. So does the Deus have a built in volume control or not? Sometimes I need a quiet detector.

Thanks in advance and HH!

BlackRain · May 3, 2018

Wanna be super stealthy, put the headphones around your neck, resting on your shoulders, you can hear them and no one else could.....to answer the question though, I dont recall seeing an adjustment, but I always wear headphones....
The tones are so much better with headphones I couldn't hunt without them.

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Doug · May 3, 2018

No external speaker volume control, the speaker is either on or off on the controller.

Volume control is in operation through the +/- on the headphones.

Doug.

BlackRain · May 3, 2018

Couple options would be to get a waterproof case for it or find the speaker and partially cover it with a piece of electrical tape

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REAL_RAT_FINK · May 4, 2018

Doug said:
No external speaker volume control, the speaker is either on or off on the controller.

Volume control is in operation through the +/- on the headphones.

Doug.

I just can't understand why a top of the line detector wouldn't have a volume control. Maybe i'm in the minority of people who don't care for headphones. Thanks for the info.

REAL_RAT_FINK · May 4, 2018

BlackRain said:
Couple options would be to get a waterproof case for it or find the speaker and partially cover it with a piece of electrical tape

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The waterproof case may work, have you tried it? How much volume can you hear?

I have used the electrical tape on my sons compadre, I don't think I could justify doing that on a deus

BlackRain · May 4, 2018

I would say the case muffles it to 60% of the original volume.

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Doug · May 4, 2018

REAL_RAT_FINK said:
I just can't understand why a top of the line detector wouldn't have a volume control. Maybe i'm in the minority of people who don't care for headphones. Thanks for the info.

None of the previous/current XP models have a separate volume control, all are through the headphones so the Deus is no different.

iwillbot · May 4, 2018

You would think XP would put a volume control on their detector...

You can always wrap the detector in foam/ziploc bags/tape

TerryR · May 4, 2018

You will miss a lot of deeper stuff by not shutting out the outside noise by using headphones. The other plus is a lot of kids and adults hear a beep and here they come to see what you have. I even shut off the sound on my pinpointer as not to bother other people

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