Here is a video by The Hunter GT depth testing the Equinox 800, Legend, Deus 2 and CTX 3030 in iron mineralized ground near Sacramento CA in the Spring of 2022 using an 8" buried US silver dime and a 10" buried US silver dime.
Before anyone says "I told you so" there are several issues with this testing no matter what the video maker claims or says in the video.
The Equinox 800 being used in Park 1 Multi has tracking ground balance ON, Recovery speed 1, iron bias on Fe 0 instead of F2 0 and all iron target IDs are rejected except for 0. None of those settings are optimal for deep, edge of detection targets including silver coins while hunting in high iron mineralization. Some iron responses are a given with those settings but they are mostly being rejected in this video. I do sometimes use tracking ground balance ON at saltwater beaches, but not on iron mineralized dirt.
The Legend is setup very well except for the 1 recovery speed and the fact that it is using pre v1.09 software so the fixed iron bias/filter is set to maximum 8. In high iron mineralization those settings are guaranteed to produce iron responses on edge of detection targets, even silver coins.
Deus 2 is using V0.71 software and Deep High Conductor. Iron volume is on default 3 and simply can't be heard through the external speaker especially since the user is talking right over the responses. This was corrected with much better iron volume control settings with V1.0 software. Deep High Conductor and high iron mineralization do not get along very well out here in the Western USA and even the Manticore suffers out here using All Terrain High Conductor. The iron mineralization seriously hurts any programs weighted below around 18 kHz . Recovery (reactivity) speed 1 doesn't help very much in Western USA high iron mineralization on edge of detection targets either.
I own or have owned and regularly used the Equinox 800, Legend and Deus 2 in similar soil conditions and have found deep 8 to 12" silver US dimes with all three of them repeatedly. The audio and target ID responses of the Equinox 800 even with the seriously flawed setup that The Hunter GT is using are "DIG ME" responses in the dirt out here.
CTX is setup really well for this test, M4 Silver, wide open pattern, full tones, still giving some iron responses too however. It did great.
I love it when testers say things like "Nothing", "As you can see we got nothing" and "Nada Tostada" while each detector is giving audio and target ID responses on the 10" silver dime target.
For you Deus 2 owners, the results in this video are absolutely not the results that I have experienced. Deus 2 using post V0.71 software and setup well in General, Sensitive or Sensitive FT using the 11" or 13X11" coil will easily hit those targets with plenty of non-ferrous tones and good IDs where I detect in Western USA high iron mineralization. Ditto for the Legend using V1.09 or later software.