Whites is a major brand metal detector that has been proven over the years to produce quality detectors with excellent performance and the best customer service out there. I know that you are new to the hobby and are looking for the best detector to buy however, you will find that detectorists that have been around a while will use what performs best for their particular kind of hunting and that they enjoy using. Metal detectors vary greatly from brand to brand and even from detector to detector so no one can tell you what the best detector will be for you. Just check out the features that you are looking for, get a machine and then learn that machine through use. As far as your original question, you are on a Whites forum so it is not likely to get many unbiased opinions since most detectorist have a tendency to be brand loyal. I have used several Fisher machines that performed very nicely but they were all the old style analog machines like the CZ5. The only digital Fisher detector I have owned was the F5. I did not care for it at all and it was very susceptable to EMI making it almost impossible to use in some areas that I detected. I liked some of the features that the detector had but it just did not perform up to my expectations. I currently have the TreasurePro and have owned a lot of Whites machines. Out of all the brands available (and I have owned most of them) Whites detectors just perform like they are supposed to and are built solid to last a long time. The TreasurePro is very inexpensive for all the features that you get for your money and I don't think you would be disappointed in it's performance. Is it the deepest machine out there, no but neither will any other detector in that price range be. IMHO Whites detectors have the best discrimination and target ID. I am a coinshooter and rarely hunt for anything else and I have always done well with Whites machines and the TreasurePro is a good coin machine. I have a NEL Sharpshooter coil on mine and it gets good depth and great separation of targets which is often more important than raw depth. I am not a dig it all kind of guy so I depend upon good tone and visual ID and I think the TPro offers that plus other great features like a backlight, easy to read display, auto tracking and the ability to lock the tracking. Hope you enjoy whatever you decide on and good luck in your quest for treasure.
