My experience with spectra v3,(not yet updated to v3i)
This is only my own view, after owning a Spectra V3 for more than a year and hunting in parks, beaches and casual trip to old gold field.
This detector is the only detector which give you around exceptional depth on any ground if you give a time and patience to learn the machine. Someone said the detector is only god as the person which is using it. This rules apply double. Hot rock is trouble but in prospecting the machine can handle mild ones and black sand is sometimes trouble to but set up your machine on different program, change setting up a little or down a little and off you go. It is hard to exactly say this setting is for this and that, mainly because each different mode has own priority, but as I find out this detector have a responded well for me and when I Change setting up or down it is always telling me if it's like the setting or not. The sound is something which will tell you ,just listening and than confirming on display will do the trick.
All the program is preset for you, so no problem if you use it as turn and go detector. But don't expect a miracles from preset modes .There are very good ,but they need to be modified for different ground to master machine to give you a best of the best on each different ground. Display is easy and you can see what is a probably in the ground and how deep, but again ground balance is in autotrac but you can select slightly -/+ offset , discrimination that is a mode which you have to play with to achieve the ultimate result for the machine and ground where you hunt and what you expect or want to find and reject rest in setting. In park it is sometimes to much junk, but a push away to High trash mode and you are in for surprise ,all junk is non existent anymore and you digging only the coins. It is a bit gamble, as you can walk over of some good targets as well.
I love the wireless headphones, and change to metric units is for me a treasure on its own, as I have Europe background.
Audio sound is a song on its own as each program respond differently in all frequencies or you can pick only one frequency.
In Prospecting mode it will go very deep it is sometimes unbelievable how deep I have to dig, to only find a of metal, if is rusty as in, prospecting I don't discriminate to much, I dig everything as in gold field you never know, rusty nail and gold could be not far from each other .
I did not master the expert set up as this is a more deep setting and you can play with this as much as you like and still can restore the machine to original setting, and off you go turn and go again as new. To use a basic set up ,it will give you a beep-beep sound on many happy findings as no other detector probably could as you using a only one detector. I believe this detector is a more than metal detector it is a real threat in someone hands ,who like the detector as I do. I don't have much experience with others detector and I know there are better detectors out there than a Spectra .But Spectra is for me a personal thing with this to say , if it was not a detector I would have said someone from Whites put a soul to it.
Fenix
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