Well let me start this by saying I am a huge fan of Garrett, I own an Infinium,Seahunter,At pro and an Ace250. Yes a lot of detectors as I also own a Minelab CTX. Some of these I bought new, some I found for a steal on Craigslist(thank you A.D.D. Lazy people who buy things and thing everything should come easy to them like the participation trophy they got for soccer did).
Garrett is second to none in customer service too.
Anyway, I really don't see the huge improvement here. It looks like they simply made a couple tweaks to their military Recon Pro and slapped a new sticker on the control housing. I was hoping or something that could offer some of the features of Minelabs GPX series such as different timings and an Iron reject. I did see the iron audio and they may be nice, but I just so not see the huge improvement over the Infinium here except for maybe aesthetics, being able to turn the coil 90 degrees for searching and collapsing it down easily for crawling around and storage are the only real improvements over the Infinium.
I'm not sure if this is a single tone for a target as the recon pro is which is better than the Infinium but no better than what they have had on the recon for years, and years are like decades when it come to tech advances.
So I'm not trying to bash this new machine without seeing some field tests and real world user reviews. It may be a very capable detector, but I just do not see it competing with the GPX.