Got my sorex pro in yesterday.Very nice machine.Had it in one hand and he manual in the other.Very interesting the way the screen is laid out.Gonna give it a test drive tomorrow.
Cheap advertising for Golden Mask. AKA Sorex Pro are much better machines with much more featuresI used to have a Sorex Pro. I bout it from an European dealer for 650EUR - very expensive machine for what it does. Sold it after 3 months - very noisy, not a pleasure to work with. Super sensitive in the air, but not even closer in terms of depth to my beloved and cheap (link removed by mod for rule violation) in the ground.
If you want an advice: don't trust the adverts, buy only after a real world test. I made the mistake to trust some Sorex adverts and paid some 350EUR for that mistake.
Cheap advertising for Golden Mask. AKA Sorex Pro are much better machines with much more features
I used to have a Sorex Pro. I bout it from an European dealer for 650EUR - very expensive machine for what it does. Sold it after 3 months - very noisy, not a pleasure to work with. Super sensitive in the air, but not even closer in terms of depth to my beloved and cheap (link removed by mod for rule violation) in the ground.
If you want an advice: don't trust the adverts, buy only after a real world test. I made the mistake to trust some Sorex adverts and paid some 350EUR for that mistake.
No, it's not. The Sorex works much better in the air, but all we do search in the ground, right?
I was in a search trip with a friend, me with the Sorex and he with a Golden Mask 2 - an old model running at 8kHz.
We found a Turkish copper coin and we decided to test how deep the Sorex could go. We borrowed the coin at some 30 cm (12") and started to swipe. The Sorex indicated the coin with a very faltering signal changing the VDI from extreme left to extreme right - it usually do this for very rusty iron, but in this case it was a cooper coin. The Golden Mask 2 indicated the coin with a definitive non-ferrous signal. I changed frequencies on the Sorex (I was with the 3-frequency elliptic coil), changed the search mode, changed everything, but never had a better signal, a signal that I would dig...
After that day, I sold the Sorex and got a Golden Mask 1+ UK with a 12" Spider coil - much better for me. Not as deep as the Golden Mask 2, but very sensitive to gold and tiny objects. Very simple controls and lighting fast.
Oh, forgot that - the Sorex has a speedy mode to work within trash. That mode is really fast, but the depth is horrible, absolutely useless, except if you want to search coins that were spilled yesterday and are still on the grass.
And when I wrote the Sorex is no closer to my 1+ UK, I mean complex qualities, not the depth only. In some conditions, for example on a non-mineralized soils, the Sorex is as deep as the deepest machines on the market, but the game changes right after you change soil conditions. On mineralized soils you just cannot ground-balance the machine. It non-stop screams faulty signals and if you have a good target, you cannot distinguish it from the faulty ones.
Why did you change your location from Bulgaria to France ?
We know, you sell Golden Mask. Because of this, your post (with link to GM web site) is the first negative post for AKA. Very pity...
Have you read other forums and reviews for AKA? If not, read on to make sure how many people are fascinated by them, especially by Signum.
GMD, no ads for non supporting vendors and no ads at all in Brands Forum..
I have no problem getting very good depth and performance out of the sorex pro!Thats why I have 2 of them.
In my ground they handle it just fine.
Your results may be different.
The amount of digging iron has went down to almost nothing.About the best machine at id'ing iron I've ever used,and I been doing this
for 25 years.
Oh and I also have a golden mask 5 also..
On mineralized soils you have to use 3kHz, and everything is fine. If you try with high frequency, of course will be awful.
Your opinion is based on tests with the older model Sorex (with golden shaft), not Sorex Pro which is much better, than you tested.