Everyone here knows the fisher f2 is the best detector in its price range. I still have one of them too. I did not find it cheap at all. When I moved up I went to the f4 and loved that detector. The issue with those detectors was emf interference and that is a problem where I like to hunt. That is the reason I went to minelab. I like my detectors for they way I like to hunt. I don't like a lot of falsing and noise. I like to hunt slower. I like to find silver. It was a no brainier for me. Good luck with all this useless BS. The people here are offering you awesome advice at no charge. There is years of experience talking to you and advising you what worked for them. Take the advice or dont. It will be a lot shorter and less expensive to listen. That is what I did and am glad I did it. Good Luck and stop the BSing it is not helping anyone.
F70 or X terra 705
- Thread starter dumbdigger
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yup just giving the OP my thoughts on the questions he had. really don't care if u like r dislike what I say r do gigger to tell u the truth lol. im by far not done with the f75. I will put in a good 500 hrs before I make a decision on rather I sell it and never go back to fishers again. Who knows I may even try the f70. The thing that bothers me the most other than the constant chirping is that it doesn't have the proportional audio like the f2 and f70 has. After using the f2 and at pro and hab=ving the proportional audio on both machines its a must have for me. And im not a big fan of the tones on the f75 as well but the proportional audio is what throws me away from the f75. But as I have read the f70 does have it so but to me and from my experencise and what I have read any fisher higher than the f4 is very chirpy and thatsd another thing I don't like. When I get a sweet high tone 77 r 84 on my f75 se I suspect a clad quarter r silver quarter not another false signal. And this happens more than u thin no matter what setting u use. Right before the f75 headphones went out I was using it on 40 sensitity just to limit falsing lol. But the at pro wow finally a metal detector without all the bull !!!!. Only have 1 week with the pro and only 10 hrs r so but the learning curve is notta. I understood everything the first day I used it. Was no studying the tones etc etc r falsing chirping all the time. Was actually fun. But as I said I will give it a good 500 hrs before I try to sell r trade again. Could have sold it to many for 600 but I stood firmly on 650. had a trade semi final till a mod got trigger happy and closed it LOL
HH
U.P. Detecting
Senior Member
The F2 may or may not be the best detector in it's price range. All boils down to opinion.
Let me rephrase that comment. It is the best detector in its price range to learn how to detect with.
im telling ya the At pro is closer to a high end machine than a middle end machine. Sure the F75se is a monstor on depth but I promise ya if u set it to go that crazy depth ur ears will bleed and u will pass over lot of good targets. But that's just me. What doesn't work for me may work for u. I just no I can use 0 descry on the at pro and hear ALL the high tones very easy and unmask ALL the goodies r most. I will try to use the f75se in 0 descry again when I get the new headphones replaces. And see if the high tones stick out like they do with the at pro which only been using for a week and I understand the tones GREAT already.HH
DIGGER27
In Memory Of
It is not what you say it is how you come across, to ME anyway, saying it.
You are a picky type, and expect and demand excellence and I get that, nothing wrong with that at all, but that word disgrace was a little harsh, I think, so many of us have these things and the build for us quality is a total non issue.
Right or wrong I felt insulted when I read that, it happens a lot when anyone knocks something that other people spent good money on, it is like you are insinuating we are stupid for not seeing flaws that you noticed, but I know you didn't mean that and I know it wasn't personal.
You also might really want to understand me when I say that what you experienced with the F70 and what I know, see and hear understand and can find seems to be totally 180 degrees different than your experience and I am not the only one, there are a bunch of us so either we are all delusional or there are some things about using the F series high end you never got to understand.
Again, not knocking you just different strokes for different folks.
Calling them the worst detectors was uncalled for, IMO, although you are not the only one that have said the same things about the F70 and F75 almost word for word.
I get it, the F70 was the worst for you, but you could have made your points in a different way.
There is always another way.
Like maybe "in my opinion the build quality is not the greatest", instead of using the word disgrace.
I apologize for my rant but I have always tried to help as many as I can on this and other forums whether it would be by support, posting tips, or tempering any opinions, especially about recommendations, in a logical, fair, honest and totally unbiased manner as I can manage.
There is good and bad in most detectors I guess, and if people need to know about the negative that should be put out there, but the positive needs to be understood and weighed too, and remember that things can be understood and looked at in totally different ways by two intelligent people because they can easily perceive the same experience in totally different manners...frequently.
Such is life.
Peace.
U.P. Detecting
Senior Member
Fair enough, I apologize if my choice of wording bothered you.
had mine for a month r so now no breakage and seems pretty strong to me. f75se pretty stron not sure about the 705 im sure its strong as well.
I agress on most of what u said lol. What machine r machines u own now?
DIGGER27
In Memory Of
Accepted and already forgotten...and back at you.
Thanks for the help everyone. I appreciate the honesty DIGGER. If its like you say and the video I put up as an example is nothing as far as chatty, I maybe looking for a 705. I really think after a while I too could distinguish a good target from a bad one. I am a hard person to please. If the F70 is that chatty all the time even waving the coil to the sky I wouldnt be happy. I would be like OK why is my machine going off for no reason as it is sitting stationary next to me while Im digging a target.
This doesnt mean its a bad machine it just means its very very sensitive.
My F2 was nothing like that at all. I had more falsing than emi chatter.
Its very quiet until I get the coil over metal. Sometimes it would false. But I could figure out its falsing in under a second. The only time it would act chatty is when I am directly under, on top of or next to power wires. I wouldnt even be looking for another MD if the F2 had double the depth
If the f70 is anything like my f75 se and I hear they r a lot alike yes it will make noise and people say that noise is small targets in the ground etc etc etc but I disagree cause u can hold it straight up in the sky and it still says theres targets under the coil. But it is a very deep detector tho. Fisher is on trhe right track. I suspect within next 5 years they will have a awesome machine out. Don't get me wrong I love my f75se andf have lot of time invested in her but if me and the chatter and tones don't click like I want it then I will put down the fishers and maybe forever. And yes the f2 is super quiet machine. Loved it. but its to low end of a detector to be my main unit.
pescadore
Elite Member
I really like the 705 Gold package that I had and the elliptical HF coil almost never came off. The machine is stable and not slow at all compared to the older multi-frequency Minelab machines. It is lightweight and gets good depth. It has a lot of nice features including a backlight and the ability to change frequencies with a coil change is a nice option. The only newer Fisher that I can comment on is the F5. I also had the Technetics Eurotek Pro with the 11 inch coil. I had the same issues as Basstrackerman with the sensitivity to EMI being so great that they were unusable in some areas. I have confidence in these detectors because of having the sensitivity to low in order to quieten them down enough to tolerate the noise. I have always run my detectors hot and a little noise doesn't bother me but too much can be irritating. Most detectors will be a litlle noisy if your running them hot. I don't think you would be at all disappointed in the 705.
