Hunting directly behind my buddy (same line in the wet sand) who is very experienced with the Excal, I'd say the equinox. I came home with way more stuff even running behind him.
Also, it's nice to be able to skip over pennies and dimes when you are in a hurry racing the incoming tide because it's easy to identify them.
After the firmware update which fixed the coins on edge problem, I sold off all my other machines.
It is not as nice on the ears though.