Minelab GPX-6000 Ultimate Full Review Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2021
- A complete Review of the Minelab GPX-6000 Gold Detector. We Unbox, Assemble, Explain all Settings and Controls, Review and Field Test this new powerful machine from Minelab. A must see video if your planning on buying or have already bought this machine. This detector is one of the best in it's class!! Come along while we run it through the paces and discuss the pros and cons and stay till end of video for some very surprising final thoughts! It's a long video so if your looking for a specific topic, skip ahead and click on the time stamp below that you are interested in. After the end credits there is bonus footage of live digs and a few pro tips as well.
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Timestamps:
01:20 Packaging
02:51 Unboxing
10:11 Assembly
15:41 Factory Reset
16:43 Sensitivity
17:56 Threshold
18:37 Ground Type
18:56 Backlight
19:17 ML-100 Wireless Headphones
20:37 Pairing Headphones
23:06 Live Digs
27:24 Final Thoughts
32:27 Final Thoughts - Update!
36:19 End Credits
36:43 Bonus Footage - Live Digs
48:29 Bonus Footage - Pro Tips
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Excellent video and commentary. New to the 6000, learned a lot. Most importantly audio was clear and concise. Good job.
Thanks for taking the time to produce a great video 👍Just bought my wife a 6k for our anniversary back in December. Heading out tomorrow for the first run at Whroo (Victoria Australia) Also grabbed a Nugget Finder 12x7 Exceed to push into the harder to get to ground with the standard round coils. Hopefully one day we'll make a trip to the USA and find a bit of colour. Keep up the good work 👏 🍻
RM Outback.
Thank you for watching the video and checking in from all the way across the world! That's a great coil that you bought a buddy of mine has done very well with it here. I see your comment was a month ago, wondering if you had any luck yet with your 6K? Thank you again for watching the video and for taking the time to leave such a kind comment!
Awesome review Mark! Actual in field exchanging of ideas and thoughts and tips from you and Scott really sets this review apart from other creators. 👍
Awesome video Mark!
Thanks for taking the time and going into detail on setting the machine up, and showing us how to operate it. Have a wonderful day.
I can't wait to see your video on the GPZ 7000
Thank you for your view and kind comment! I'm almost done with the Minelab GPZ-7000 video, it's coming soon! Happy Holidays! 🤠⛏️
Maaf... Kalau koilnya basah yg gpx 6000 engak apakah
Thanks for a great video from Melbourne Australia
thank you for the deep information and the unboxing ,thanks for the comparizon againist the gpz7000
Thank you for watching the video and taking the time to leave a comment! I'm glad that you enjoyed it and found some useful information in it. Best of luck! 🤠⛏
Great review!
Best video by far on the GPX 6000. Thanks
Thank you Roy for the view and your incredible comment! This is the kind of comment that keeps me inspired to make more videos! Wishing you all the best. 🤠⛏️ Mark
@@BrassMedic After seeing this video I immediately ordered a GPX 6000 & can't wait to get into the Bush to try it out
Excellent video, Just saw the 6000 and placed a deposit on it can't wait for it to get in my hands.
Hi very detailed review an great info thanks from Craig Australia
Glad I found your channel.
Mate that was a great video thankyou very much👍
Thank you for the view and comment. I have many more review videos coming soon! 🤠⛏️
Great video Mark!
Thank you brother, hope you are doing well!! Been a while. Lmk next time your up this way. 🤠
I absolutely love my GPX6000!
Same here!! Thank you for the view and comment! Best of luck in your adventures! 🍀🤠
Very thorough video
When that nugget broke the threshold like it did I thought it was lead or trash. That's a big nugget. Another great video brother. I've been playing with the AXIOM but just ordered my GPX6000 today 😀. With the 25% off and another 15% if your military it's a crazy deal. Never thought I'd own a 6000
Excellent very helpful and hello from Western Australia
Thank you for the view and kindest comment! Best of luck in your adventures! 🤠⛏️
Very useful, about to purchase one.
Hola, soy de Argentina, te felicito por tu video, es excelente, super claro, gracias
Good info. I'm seriously thinking of upgrading from the SDC to this machine.
Hi and thank you for the view and comment! Yes, it's an upgrade for sure in many ways but definitely doesn't fold up and fit into a small backpack! 😜 But this machine is seriously a game changer, so stable and much more easy to swing than a GPZ7000 or your SDC. Happy Holidays 🤠⛏️
Just came across your channel, and I’m running a new 6000. I’m from the nor cal area too, but headed to AZ this weekend to give new machine a good test. Just bullets and small wire so far, but hopefully this weekend something golden will be in the hole. Your info helps, Maybe run into you some day
Thank you for your comment and view, send me an email at the address in the description and we can meet up one of these days for sure! Happy Holidays! 🤠⛏️
I just finished watching the entire video. Between the video and what I know Scott’s been finding lately I’m sold on that 6000. Just need to find $6000. Buy the way I was one of the first guys to hunt that field and took a lot of gold out of there. Great video.
Yes I know you were, have heard some incredible stories about those days and you guys. Must have been really awesome! This is one machine that can pay for itself pretty quick but you would have to find one of your old sites that nobody else has found in modern times and take this back into it! Was very hard for me to lay out $6k as well but I sure am glad I did! 🤠⛏️
Great video very well explained, yes i read all comments one in particular the comparison between gpx5000 and gpz7000 he threw some heat on it.
I know a very experienced detectores that has gpx4500 an gpz7000 big and small coils for both which all 4 to 6 coils for both machines all find different sized gold and depths.
I'm in Australia i sold a Garrett i was close to buying the 7000 but my mate worned me there no easy feet in highly mineralised iron stone ground with little experience tuning , put it this way another video i watched 7000 with 19inch coil 350mm approx 14" depth one ounce nugget the 7000 was noisier than my wife and 3 kids put together mineralisedgroundbarely here the target . That's definitely not for a beginner or intermediate detecteris with zero patience to pin point what to do , the ground is very hi mineralised in most gold feilds in Oz.
Well i say after watching video the gpx6000 would be good enough to get you started and continue detecting without quitting from a machine screaming at you.
Cheers thanks any new big coils available for 6000 yet ?
Hi Mark, great video... I just purchased a 6000 almost like new off of eBay, can't wait to try it out.. I have the Gold Monster 1000 with the 6" coil and also later purchased again off of eBay and was like new the Equinox 800 and with the small coil it does almost as good as the Monster. But really wanting to try the 6000 and now will have to see about getting the 17" coil. I am in southern CA and have a vacation house in Havasu hoping to try my luck around there. Again can't wait to see the 6000, just won the auction earlier this morning. Thanks, Dave...
Hi Dave, Thank you for the view and comment! I have all of those same detectors and use them all. However, I prefer to look for relics over gold on most days and take my CTX3030 out for those trips, I absolutely love my Gold Monster 1000 and do very well with it. It is a little tricky to setup right and I have a video coming out this week showing pro tips and tricks of the GM1000. Your going to do very well with your GPX-6000 but I recommend since you have both machines that you cover a patch pretty good with your GM1000 first then come back in after with the GPX-6000. Another recommendation that I didn't cover in this video is to keep the skid plate (coil cover) clean inside on GPX-6000. Take it off and clean your coil and the inside of the skid plate often. Also a great idea to run electrical tape around edge so you keep dust out of the space between the coil and skid plate. I use black electrical tape so I can see where white starts showing through so I know when to clean it again. Along this same line, the old technique of pouring a plastic trowel or handful of dirt on to the top of the coil then agitating it with your hand to hear a nugget is a bad idea on the GPX-6000. First of all it scratches and discolors your coil, but more importantly this machine is like a race horse ready to run, it is running full tilt from the time you turn it on. Rarely ever will you find ground or atmospheric conditions to get it to run stable at high sensitivity. In most ground it's running about 12 o'clock on sens to be stable. Turning the sensitivity up on this machine makes a real difference in depth, you want to run the 6000 as hot as you can while still being able to discern a signal over ground cry. Any dust or dirt on top of coil or in between the skid plate and coil will cost you some sensitivity. Take heed to my tips about cell phones too! Best of luck out there!! That's quite the arsenal you have now!
great video mate thankyou
Thank you!!
Great viseo Im in for more adventures bell hit!
Thank you for your view and sub and comment!! Truly appreciate that and hope you find many ounces of gold in your adventures! Mark🤠
Nice video 👍
Thank you as well for your view and kind comment!
Good job sir ,can you please tell me is this machine selective like gold and metals
Really good video with a lot of information , wich metal detector you will recomend for a large gold like 1 pound 2 meter underground? Thank you !!
Thank you for your view and comment/question. This machine or the Minelab GPZ7000 and the Minelab GPX-5000 with a 19" elliptical coil are about the deepest gold detectors made. The Minelab SDC-2300 with an aftermarket large coil is deep too. Best of luck! 🤠⛏️
Hi from Oz! 2022, Great Review! Yeah MLabs from Here Oz. Makes some Killer Detector Gear! Luv It! Yeah Subscribed! Thanks!
Hello and Thank you for your view and kindest comment! Yes, I have owned and ran Minelabs since the first Sovereigns hit the USA back in around 1992-93. Have owned and used every machine they have ever made since. Thanks again!!! 🤠⛏
Thank you for the view, comment and sub!!! 😁 Yes, love all of my Minelab machines!! They have been good to me over the years! 🤠
Compared to the gpz 7000 and the previous gpx range this detector is a tempramental, noisy and fails as an overall usable detecor across heavy Mineralization or in warmer weather.
Many have gone back under warranty.
Bought one, used it extensively, failed too many tests and didnt hear signals that were audible on the gpz when gold size was over 1g.
If you want flyspec gold in cool weather and on quiet ground... Great.
Mine was happily sold on.
Have you seen the video that Woody made (DetectorMods) where he used the carbon shielding inside the control box to quiet the machine way down? He filed the anodized collar nut on the inside of the circuit side so that it made contact with the shielding (obviously voids the warranty) but there is an option. I see what your saying here but even so I have found literally pounds of nuggets with my GPX-6000 in pretty nasty blood red dirt here in California. I do prefer to use my GPZ whenever I can, it just makes for a long day swinging that machine as I am 6' 3" and the overall max length feels about 2" too short for me causing me to have to lean forward ever so slightly to operate it which quickly takes it's toll on my low back. May I ask for what reason(s) did "Many have gone back under warranty"? Btw: All of my detectors do better in cooler weather. Thank you for the view and comment!
Great video, I have a 6000 coming, why have hard wire when you have the Bluetooth option and you said extend shaft to red marks can you run it shorter ? Ok have a 5000 and a monster I have been keeping truck label towards me cor some reason, never heard to keep it away. Thanks
Great question!! Firstly the shafts to red marks, yes you can run it shorter . . . but don't. Try to run it as far away from your shoes (that have metal in them) and your cell phone in your pocket to eliminate unnecessary noises. Doesn't matter on label really but correct or recommended is away. I personally like using wireless headphones on the GPX-6000 and have no issues with them as far as latency goes. Thanks for the view, comment and questions!!! Lmk how you do with it! I love mine and do VERY well with it.
best review ever .how abou gpz 19 inch coil does is it have big difference or better than 14 inch
Yes it's a great coil too but several of my buddies are using the three different size Coiltek Goldhawks and doing very well. Thank you for checking out the video and for leaving a comment!
Gr8 review m8. Subbed n belled , 😎
I like this unit just can't afford it. Running a sd2000 tricked up, maybe one day , dreams are free
Davi b. Ausie
Thank you Davi, one nugget can change all that quick! I hope you find it m8!! 🤠⛏️
Hi Mark, great video! By any chance did you do any comparisons with Scott and his Z while you had either the 11 or 17” mono on your 6000?
Hi Joe, Thank you for the view, kind comment and question. Great question, so yes I have and the GPZ has twice heard targets that the GPX-6000 with the 17" and 11" could not hear at all, even with factors such as ground balance, sensitivity and other settings optimized. Hands down the GPZ is deeper!! Both of those nuggets were nice 2+ dWt nuggets and deep! GPZ is still king for deep! I still do very well with nugget counts at the end of the day when head to head with other GPX's and GPZ's but I am missing out on some nice deep ones. 🤠⛏️
@@BrassMedic that’s good to know. I’m still on the fence about selling my 5000 to get a 6000. I’ve heard that even the 5000 with a 17” flat wind coil (Evo) can punch deeper than the 6000; in fact my friend, who has a 6000, recently borrowed my 5000 in hopes of getting more depth in a patch he was working. Hearing reports like that have giving me pause, but the ergonomics and weight of the 6 are very enticing. Thanks for the reply!
Minelab vs Garrett back in the 80's minelab was popular here in Australia. i still got an old garret ground hog collecting dust in the shed. These units are classics. it's good the days of bus boards of 10 or more 9v batteries to power them for a few hours have gone.
Thank you for the view and comment from Australia! Yes, I have a couple older dinosaur machines I remember the 8 C batteries and fussy ground balance. Loved my old Minelab Sovereign!!
It all depends on what your trying to find and how much iron is in the ground. By iron, I mean nails, screws, old tools, etc. If lots of this like an old home site, then you would want to hear all the iron grunts and listen for the high tones mixed in and swing slowly, when you hear a nice, repeatable high tone, turn 90 degrees on it and swing again, if you still hear it repeating, dig it! The search mode I recommend for parks is "Coins". The search mode I recommend for old home sites is "Relics".
@@BrassMedic Minelabs was a later company of minetec and the original metal detector it never claimed gold. hey but times have changed since then and so did garret
Great clip....the 6000 is definitely better than the 7000 on really small shallow gold, it has been called a 2300 on steroids. But for all out depth performance, the 7000 is still king.
It has been noted that the "new" 17 inch coil for the 6000 is still very sensitive to the small stuff, even comparable to the 11inch coil.
Still to get the 17 inch for my 6000...very soon, when stock is available.
I still haven't got the coil for my personal GPX-6000 either, can't wait. Can't say it enough but the lightweight swing and feel of this machine over the 7000 is a huge trade-off for the better = way less fatigue. I'm enjoying it! 🤠⛏️
I wish to get the 3030 What is your advice
Wow see that 11 inch miss by the 6000 where the 7000 heard it on the extra footage at the end still has me leaning onto the 7000.
Absolutely, this has happened more than once! Had a 7000 user call over 3 of us all using the 6000 with different coils, I had the 17" Minelab coil on, none of us could hear what the 7000 could, we all tried multiple settings... Then watched as the 7000 guy dug a 3.5 dWt nugget at a depth of 12" in a hard caliche clay layer.. Next day, two of the 6000 guys were trying to find a used 7000! Like I said in the video, if you can handle swing in the 7000 you're going to do much better on deeper bigger gold. Thank you for the view and comment!
@@BrassMedic thanks for the reply and you already answered the other question I had. How the 17 inch coil would have done. Now answered and sounds like a 7000 and gold
Monster combo might be the way to go.
Are you up around Weaverville? I was born in Reading and live most of my life early life. I should say in Weaverville and plan on going back up that way to do some metal detecting.
No I am a California Native and I come from the Bay Area from the Mount Diablo Foothills. But I have lived in the heart of California Gold Country around Placerville for the last 16 years and this is where I do most of my metal detecting these days. Thank you for the view and for the comment! Let me know if you're ever up in my area.
Good
Actually i want to purchase Sdc 2300 but do not know much about it. so could you make a fulll review video just like this on Sdc 2300 will be thankful
As an aside to your great set-up video the only criticism I have Mark is you don't mention the run time of the headphones once charged. 1 47am here now, the only reason I'm still up is I went to the Alexander Rodeo and have had a few sips 😂 Nonetheless the run time of a fully charged het of bluetooth headphones needs to be included imo
That's a great point and I never thought to do that honestly. But I take your comment to heart and I will do this from now on on any detector I review that has wireless headphones that's a great test and it's important to know. Thank you for watching the video and for your helpful advice!
Alat yg sangat bagus dari minelab
Yes it is! Thank you for your comment and view!!
hi mark, can the uni tool give a different signal between trash, iron or gold?
Hello and thanks for checking out the video if you are asking if the mono coil can differentiate between iron and conductive targets (discriminate). The answer is no it can't. This machine does give some total nuances on iron as compared to conductive targets but it takes a lot of hours of ear training to learn this. But generally speaking you should expect to dig every signal with this machine. Some of the more successful nugget Hunters that I know only dig faint deep signals. And then I come in behind them and dig the loud ones which are shallow nuggets that they passed over thinking it was a nail. It's an incredible detector but it takes a lot of patience and determination to find gold. Thanks for the view and question!
Hi Mark. Just found your channel as I’m looking at possibly a 6000 or 7000 purchase. I currently have a modified GPX 5000 and I’m not sure if the cost of a 6000 would be that much of an advantage over the 5000. Im curious why they sell the 6000 with a DD coil when the detector doesn’t have discrimination. I’m also wondering if sensitivity would be increased on the 7000 with a smaller coil. If your the Mark I think you are we have a common detecting friend. I’ve been detecting an area in the Sacramento valley for about 25 years. That area in your video looks very familiar. I’ve had every SD, GP, GPX machine Minelab has come out with. I’ve done very well out there and was actually one of the first two people to detect out there. Very good explanation of the pros of 6000.
Hi Wes!! Yes it's me. I have heard the stories about the early days out there with you guys, amazing stories! Exactly like I said in the video, 7000 is king no doubt and will hear deep, better nuggets that the 6000 can't hear at all. Trust me, I have confirmed this many times. The 6000 does excel on finding the smaller nuggets (down to 5 grains), even with the 14" coil. The reason for the DD being included is not for any discrimination circuitry, it's rather just for EMI issues as the polarized dual coils are much more stable in difficult ground (mineralization or hot rocks). Running the DD coil in stable ground with no EMI or interference is not advised by Minelab as you will lose performance and depth. But in most cases it's better than having to use a VLF machine due to difficult ground or EMI. I will also go back to what I said about the weight issues in my final thoughts. Swinging the 6000 all day is not too bad . . . . BUT, swinging the 7000 all day will kick your butt to say the least. Makes for a long hard day swinging the 7000 and digging 18" deep targets in hard ground. At the end of the day you have to weigh the advantages of both. I sold my 7000 when I bought the 6000, however, now I want and need both so I am in the market to get another 7000 soon so I have both. But in short I will say that you will have many good days with a 6000! If you get one, order that 14" coil same day! I heard there is a new coil out by Coiltek called the Goldenhawk, comes in 9”, 10×5” and 14×9”. I have not tested these yet but I am eager to do so!! I'll run into you out there one of these days. Until then, best of luck!!!
@@BrassMedic
Hope to meet you out there one of these days, before it developed. I hear from Scott that the 6000 with the minelab 17 inch elliptical mono is a killing setup.
Hi. Is there a chance of doing a review on the SDC2300. These are very popular in Australia, maybe not so much in California. I own one of these as well as a 6000 & Nox800
Absolutely! Great idea. I have detected side by side with the SDC-2300 with my GPX-6000 on many trips and the SDC-2300 is a beast and holds it's own every time. I will start planning that video and make it happen! Thank for the view and taking the time to leave a comment with a great suggestion! 🤠⛏️
❤. Hi. I love what you do. Sir
could you please tell me what kind of boots you are wearing in this video 50:49
Hello, they are Redwing Snake Boots but they absolutely do have metal eyelets and metal in the insoles as well. So these are not ideal. I know a lot of guys who just wear rubber muck boots because there is no metal at all but they get sweaty and are not typically comfortable.
Hi i like to know how deep they pull individually
Hello, are you asking for the difference in depth on GPX-6000 and the GPZ-7000? If so, the 7000 is quite a bit deeper to a significant amount. In other words if you need depth and can afford the 7000 and swing it, absolutely do so!!
gpz 7000 is a dd coil machine only so it is a fair comparison
GPZ7000 is a DOD coil. It’s different to DD.
Boss can you tell us dept rate regarding this machine gpx 6000 how much deep this can find
Hello, Thank you for your view and question. The GPX-6000 and the GPZ-7000 are the deepest gold machines made. The depth matters on the soil (mineralization) and several factors regarding the target including the shape (surface area) the density, orientation in the soil, and of course the settings (sensitivity) of the machine and which coil (size) your using. For example a nice 1 Troy ounce round, gold nugget in mild soil can clearly be heard at nearly 18" (45 cm) !! A small, round 1 gram nugget can be heard easily at 6" (15 cm) depth. For me to tell you how deep it can detect is very difficult as there are so many factors but just know that they are both the deepest gold detectors currently available. 🤠⛏️
May i ask how much the price gpx 6000.and how manny mtrs deep detecting.thank you
Hello, I am not sure as prices are different all around the world. Here in the USA it costs $5,999.00. As far as depth it would be only measured in centimeters, not meters. It is one of the deepest gold detectors ever made.
Good morning.
Cheers and thank you for the view and comment!! 🤠⛏️
Great review. What about iron discrimination? I am in Northern VA and live on highly mineralized soil, but with ALOT of iron junk among the relics and coins. I was looking at the 5000, but the adjustments and tuning has discouraged me.
Thank you for the view and kind comment! To be honest, this machine and the rest of the GPX and even GPZ series is not ideal for searching amongst iron and relics if your just trying to detect gold. Your going to hear everything. With the exception of the double D coil on the GPX-5000, none of these are able to do much about discriminating iron. Now a trained, seasoned ear can really pick out the subtle differences that gold signals give, like the warbly sounds from a piece of iron... but generally speaking it's not the ideal machine for searching amongst iron or relics if trying to hear gold only. You should consider the Minelab Gold Monster 1000 for that application, we'll suited for discriminating out iron and a VERY capable gold machine! Mine has paid for itself many times over! Check out my email in the comments section below if you have any other detailed questions. As far as mineralized soil goes, this machine and the flagship GPZ-7000 are both designed from the ground up to perform in the most heavily mineralized soils in the world. Both are fantastic and this is usually not an issue if you set your sensitivity accordingly. Thanks again and Happy Holidays! 🤠⛏️
@@BrassMedic Thanks for the detailed reply. I am not looking for Gold, mostly relics and coins(silver). The PI machines deal with the mineralized soil much better. I have used a 5000 and it can descriminate iron pretty well once setup. Was hoping this 6000 being lighter could do it too.
@@ahhsgvr Unfortunately not 😣 This thing will hear literally every piece of metal in the ground which can drive you mad with ear fatigue. GREAT gold machine but just not practical for relics in and amongst iron.
@@BrassMedic Thank you! Saved me a 5k mistake.
@@BrassMedic But you say in video the GPX6000 is the Best! So why go for anything less.
hi..one question...does the GPX 6000 have iron discrimination
Thank you for the view and question! It unfortunately does not. In fact it can be a really long day with this machine looking for gold amongst iron like nails, etc. With lots of hours of hands on usage you can kind of get to know the sound of some iron and avoid it but this machine is not the best when looking for gold in trashy areas. At that point I would recommend a VLF gold detector like the Minelab Gold Monster 1000 or even the Minelab Equinox 800 which is VERY impressive on gold. Both will discriminate iron.
@@BrassMedic thank you very much for your reply...regards
No discrimination for 6k fuck that. There is so much more metal in the ground other then gold.
That constant whine would drive me crazy!
Yes, there is a real and overwhelming amount of noise being generated that can cause ear fatigue if your not used to it. But that whine as you call it turns out is one of the most powerful features of this machine and any disturbance of this tone gives valuable information to the seasoned user and this is how this machine "detects" gold nuggets. Thank you for the view and comment.
Let's put the garretts atx up against the 6000 that would be fun
I will definitely do that if I can but a better comparison would be the Garrett Axiom and the Minelab GPX-6000. Maybe the Minelab SDC-2300 VS the Garrett ATX shootout head to head. All 4 are incredible machines!!
Anyway I am in Hamburg. Germany
Whats the price for the 6000.???????
I'm not exactly sure but I'm thinking it's around $6,000 however heard if you buy it right now you get a free gold Monster 1000 with it as a promotion. That is a $1,100 metal detector on it's own. Thank you for the viewing for the comment!
Bro can you help me with a 7000 detector or something lil bigger than one thousand I have a one 000
The bonus footage; the gpx 14 on the 6000 probably not the best comparison
You got that right!! Not even worth the effort, especially in clean ground with no EMI. Wish I had of planned that better. Was borrowing the machine that day but ended up buying it after borrowing and got the 17" Minelab coil = big difference... But still not GPZ depth. Thanks for view and comment!
Anyway you can get a discount from your channel😆? 6k is a heavy price tag 😵💫
Thank you for the view and question. Where are you located??
Minnesota 🥲 we have no gold.
Ok I don't understand why they bring out a 5000 leave a gap and bring out a 7000 and then years later introduced 6000 I'm thinking they had the 6000 and the 7000 but no one would buy the 7000 if they released the 6000
Hi Jaime, thank you for the view and comment/question. I'm not sure about this either but keep in mind that they have a track record of the 3500 costing $3,500 (US) when it came out, the 4000 was $4,000, the 5000 was $5000, etc... So the 7000 being the flagship cost $7000 maybe they released this 6000 as a slightly less capable machine with all the new/modern features and its simply priced at $6,000. When they jumped model numbers up from 5000 to 7000 could have simply been because they couldn't afford to sell the new GPZ-7000 for only $6,000 so the MSRP determined the new model number?? Hope you will subscribe to the channel. Cheers, Mark 🤠⛏️
Better than GPX5000 most certainly NOT. First if the GPX6000 could use multiple coils (say 80 search coils from various brands then maybe). The GPX6000 also lacks customisable settings and crucial settings for more advanced operators and operators with hearing disabilities. Ask yourself why is there a high tone threshold, no threshold at all and yet they forgot to include a low tone threshold? The GPX6000 is exceptionally unstable in very wet or water logged mineralised grounds (14" DD hopeless). Now tell me, why did my GPX5000 with 25 inch coil give a break in threshold on a 43 ounce nugget and the GPX6000 and the GPZ7000 with 19 inch coil didn't make a whisper. How can the GPZ7000 be better than a GPX5000 when it doesn't hear some multi ounce pieces at depth? I'll tell you something; Minelab makes various detectors which all serve a purpose there is no best detector. Each detector is better suited for finding different shaped, sized, density pieces of gold and other targets and rubbish at various depths. Minelab don't want you to get rid of your GPX5000 or SDC2300 or GPZ7000 or Gold Monster or Equinox etc they want you to own them all, they call it marketing. They could make the ultimate detector to find everything but why would they when they can make more money selling multiple units overtime targeting different people in different countries to use there products to hunt for different types of gold. The GPX6000 is more so for new people (who don't have a vast knowledge of prospecting, geology, read the land etc) and yet they have a very high chance to find gold very quickly (at the cost of sacrificing features for more advanced users). Obviously minelab didn't want to complicate new operators with an arsenal of settings to set like GPX5000 or GPZ7000. If a new person finds gold with his GPX6000 he'll tell his mates and then Minelab gets more sales in a sense they are strengthening the market for there products. And you know what there is still gold that don't register on current known detectors - we have to wait and see what Bruce brings out next for minelab. Obviously Treasure Box your a minelab dealer or minelab agent or someone who really just doesn't understand how detectors work. Its sad because your educating new people to limit themselves with just one or two machines saying this is the best! when in fact it is best for shallower gold depending on the weather and ground conditions. SDC2300 I can use underwater, GPX6000 I can't.
You bring up so very solid points here. I was honestly never able to swing a 25" Coil on my 5000. As you know it's not a fair comparison to compare depth between machines when one has a coil that is 100% larger than the other. Not sure how productive a 25" Coil is on smaller (sub dWt) pieces between the 0"-4"depth range.(?) which is the most common finds in a patch. Those super deep targets that cause just a "break in threshold" is not a skill level that most users of these machines are capable of finding without training and lots of experience. And yes, your comment about me being a nice guy for leaving the deep big pieces for others is absolutely true, those are being left by me for all the other pieces I am recovering on an outing. On most days I don't have the desire or probably the skill to even detect a 43 ounce nugget that was just a break in the threshold. If you have seen my other videos, you will have seen me dig many multi-ounce nuggets some down to over 12" deep but I have yet to detect and dig any of those super deep ones! I just hope that if I come across one, I just hope that on that day I have the energy and determination to spend the time to dig it. 5000 definitely has several features that I liked but for me I prefer and recommend the 6000 for the same reasons I mentioned in my long winded wrap-up. I don't rake issue with anything you said! Your on point all the way and trust me when I tell you I am going to find that 25" Coil and try it on video! One thing you said absolutely wrong though, that is your thinking that I sell or am an agent for Minelab. I do own 6 different Minelab and use them daily, but they have done nothing for me and I say what I want to say about all brands regardless of what any of those manufacturers think. I have no problems telling you all everything that I dislike about any machine. Over the last 35 years I have owned the best machines made by every company (both current companies and manufacturers that have since went out of business). I am sorry that you were so moved by my video that you had to take the time to send me such detailed comments but I sincerely appreciate you having done that! I have learned a lot because of what you said! Cheers, Mark ⛏️🤠
@Treasure Box I wasn't comparing the GPX6000 and GPX5000 like you were in your video I was trying to point out that they are two different machines for finding different types of gold. There is no best detector each detector serves different purpose. (for example: is a screwdriver better than a hammer or a pair of scissors) You can't compare GPX5000 with GPX6000 because the GPX6000 is limited in its coil options and runs on different technology and is a really good detector for finding shallow nuggets, whereas the GPX5000 can find shallow nuggets too but maybe not as consistent to a GPX6000. GPX5000 finds multi ounce nuggets in very deep ground if using a big coil where as the GPX6000 is limited in coil sizes. 12" isn't very deep, 54" is the deepest I have dug to find a gold bearing reef. I tend to use GPX6000 take out every target in patch, then use GPZ7000 do the same and lastly use GPX5000 with big coil to finish off the patch until a newer detector comes out in the future.
Fair enough you haven't had much success with GPX5000 but why influence new operators to think the same as you. Your review is biased, sure you can have an opinion but you should be stating that everyone else has to make there own decision on what detector works for them. Otherwise you might get done for product disparagement.
Depth unfortunately is not predictable like a 30cm ruler you can buy from a store/shop. Depth is determined by coil size, coil wiring design, ground matrix, weather conditions, settings, EMI (Electrical Magnetic Interferences), day or night your detecting, size of the object, its shape, rotation of object in the ground, density: porous, stringy or solid, if operator knows a faint target from ground noise, the list goes on. Not to mention each detector manufactured can be different to the one in front and before it. Every prospector can however talk about the gold they have found at whatever depth. But that doesn't mean your detector is always searching 12" down in the ground everywhere you swing that coil.
The coil I use is a Nugget Finder 25" DDX.
Also just recently, my gpx6000 needed another new coil, which I brought even though it is still under warranty. I've been through 7 coils as they all seem to end up as touch sensitive. So on the most recent coil I pulled it apart to find out what's going on and to my surprise the shielding foil is ripped in several spots, how can this be? because the wiring in the coil has no padding what's so ever. When you swing the coil left to right the wiring moves inside the coil against the housing and slowly overtime tears the shielding. There is no protection its like they just dropped in the wiring loose and that's it. spend 8k for half-arsed coil, certainly not value for money. So how many of you have very noisy gpx6000 coil? or you probably don't realise and are walking around thinking EMI is bad today. I've pulled apart many coils, coiltek are the same. nugget finder are probably the best constructed coils I have ever seen.
Your kidding. You say only the 7000 will find a nugget that size down at 11 inch. The 6000 finds gold at .02 of a gram easily at that depth, and a nugget that size easily over 500mm
Hi Gary, I'll have to back and listen to the exact part your quoting from me, since depth in any machine on any target is subject to many factors such as mineralization, cool size settings, etc. I never give advice on the depth of any target. Way too subjective and what I think your referring to is in my wrap up and final thoughts, if I threw a depth out there in my thoughts it was not a science based measurement of a target, it was a figure of speech. I have a hunch that is what you heard. I also said that the 6000 is finding targets the 7000 missed. I have both and ONLY use the 6000 now, finding gold in all of our old patches scoured by the 7000's over the last couple of years. My advice to you on depth is never live and die but what any video or book or forum tells you, way too many factors to take in to consideration. I feel I get extra depth and stability in moist soil too. Both of these machines as well as the SDC-2300 and the Gold Monster 1000 are titans in the industry and all are incredibly capable at finding deep gold. Happy Holidays and best of luck! 🤠⛏️
@@BrassMedic After doing your patch you should be trying other machines including GPX5000 with a big 25 inch coil. If not its your loss if there happens to be a big lump out of the range of the decaying search coils field (unfortunately GPZ7000, GPX6000, gold monster and SDC2300 are limited on coil sizes). Don't put all your apples in one machine like the GPX6000. Try other machines too, or hire them if your local store allows it. Though you seem like a nice guy who gives that impression that you don't mind leaving behind a 50+ ounce nugget for someone else to find.
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Duly noted! I will get to working on this video asap!! Thank you for the view and suggestion!