I wrote a letter to that guy about 4 months ago after reading his ridiculous chart and statements.
It is clear that he (by his own admission) simply turned the detectors on, used factory setting and never did use them long enough to know how well they worked or how deep they went or how they operated in other situations. Personally I chewed him out for misleading the public that way and for his bias towards Minelabs and his hatred for White's and Fishers. He is DEAD WRONG about his Tesoro depth claims too, because I went right ahead and tested mine just to make sure. Another chap I know wrote to him and said the same thing and chewed him out too..
Many people on other forums just think he is a joke, including some very heavy hitters in the detector engineering world. I won't mention names but I think most of you know who I'm talking about.
If you read the charts a bit more discrimininately you will notice that he puts many White's right in with Maplins, and any fool knows that that is no comparison at all. Maplins are just pure junk. I have OWNED or DO OWN OR USED OR REPAIRED many of the detectors he supposedly "tested" and he is absolutely full of crap! He shouldn't put that online because a lie is a lie is a lie even if it's not meant to be, and he's causing some unknowing people to blow their money on some worthless piece of trash just so he can sell his Minelabs. The one about the Sovereigns is one of the most ridiculous. There are others just as silly too, including the Tejons, Vaqueros and cz's, etc..
There are over 300 detectors that he so-called "tested" one against the other. Even a cheap Bounty Hunter takes more than 1 hour to test and to learn to use effectively. A high end White's, Fisher, Minelab, even a Tesoro requires not a few minutes but a few HOURS, as much as 50 hours of use to learn how to use it properly. If you do the math you can clearly see that he didn't have time to test any of those detectors correctly enough to call it concise, after all, and as he said in his statements, his findings were merely spur of the moment and that none of his tests were concrete or conclusive. DUH! At least he was right when he made that statement, but many people don't even know that he did even that!
Here are some facts, not opinions:
The average cheap detector takes at least 2 hours to learn so as to be able to get the best depth out of it
The average DFX, Explorer, Coinstrike takes at least 50 hours to do the same. Some people need even longer than that.
If there are more of the high end detectors sold than the low end ones then that means that the average detector requires at least 20 hours to learn it and use it effectively and to get the best depth out of it.
20 hours X 300 detectors equals 6000 hours of testing and use!!!!
NOBODY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND SPENDS THAT MUCH TIME TESTING ALL THOSE DETECTORS, and I told him so too. He in his statemest on the site admits that too!
Pay attention to him. Look at what he pedals. See what he tries to push in his other posts on other sites. I have. He sells mostly Minelabs and he is biased and partial to them because they make him more profits, not because they go deeper. It's all business, and nothing more. I think it's a con, and my personal tests on at least 30 of his claims with the same detectors using the same settings proved to my satisfaction that he is merely making a lot of it up, and in fact probably didn't really test them all at all. Otherwise, he must be a really bored man and needs to get out of the house instead of spending more than 6000 hours "testing" metal detectors. Get a girlfriend dude, or a job, but get out of the house!
At 40 hours a week for "testing" it would take him 150 weeks or 250 days working NIGHT AND DAY to do all those tests and to learn those machines! Get real! NOBODY is stupid enough to think he did THAT! Again though, he admitted to just basically turning them on and trying them, but that would take him more than 15 minutes each which equals 1500 hours just to test them without even knowing how they really work or what their potential is. I'm not buying it though.
I think the guy is a fake and I told him so. If he doesn't like it, that's tough. People like that just about make me puke. I can't stand a liar, and think he is one. He and others like him really upset me, and to the max.
