DFX users?

[KennyD]

Where are the dfx users? Pretty quiet here.
I’m on my 2nd dfx and I’m loving it.

 

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[Kace]

Hi Kenny...I'm Here and I Love My DFX Too! It's a Great Detector!

Kace

 

[villagenut]

I love mine too....

 

[49er12]

It’s my only machine and from what I understand they say u can buy another but never give this one away

 

[desmobob]

I love mine. Waiting for a little more snow to melt and the ground to thaw...

Bob

 

[rjw4law]

I have my DFX in operation continuously. I also have Garrett AT max. I alternate the detectors when I have hunting issues with signals, batteries etc.

 

[desmobob]

I just picked up a new XP Dēus this spring and have been working on getting familiar with it, so the DFX has been sitting at home. Pretty soon I'll be out with both machines at once. The Dēus seems to be quite a bit easier to get acquainted with than the DFX was and offers a bigger range of frequencies. I sure wish it had the "best data" and "correlate" modes of the DFX!

Good hunting,
Bob

 

[yammy]

I just picked up a nearly new DFX and have miles of beach nearby to put it through it's paces so you should see me posting fairly regularly

 

[Discriminator]

I'm not convinced that the other machines on the market really provide additional value to make leaving my DFX work it. The tool is only as good as the individual wielding it...

 

[invent4hir]

Still have my DFX. Use it far less now that I have a V3i. Keep it around in case I want to keep a different coil on it and don't want to change the one on the V3i, have a friend who wants to detect but has no detector, or I just want to use a simpler machine. It also seems better at discrimination, in that it seldom makes a noise when passed over a target whose VDI is not chosen.

 

[Diggitdaddy]

hello, have been hunting with my DFX for about 8 years, recently bought a few books on the detector, one by Jimmy Sierra. One book how to improve gold finds. I really like the detector, have used others but nothing else feels so solid as the DFX. Wish I could separate small foil and aluminum from gold readings, say 09-25 VDI. Hunting in Nebraska there are still good finds but not like out in eastern states...if anyone has pointers how to dig less trash lets hear it !

 

[bluemask]

After 20 years I bought again a DFX to learn it better than in the past . Whites are for me the best detectors all time.

 

[mark v]

After 20 years I bought again a DFX to learn it better than in the past . Whites are for me the best detectors all time.

I've been looking, without any luck, yet, for a nice DFX to buy. I owned one about 12+ years ago and now wish I still had it.

 

[TORRERO]

I used a Whites DFX for about 15 years and it was a great machine, SO great that I had 2, and 1 was a backup although it was extremely rare that I used it.
But the machines got old, and the screens started to fade and WHITES went out of business, so I sold mine and got an XP DEUS I and II as the new machines...
I use the DEUS I in playgrounds for small gold and coins, and DEUS II for old sites with iron, for coins and relics...
The DFX was a GREAT MACHINE no doubt, but it just aged out and now you can't get them repaired or serviced without a big hassle... SO... that's why I don't have one anymore 😭

 

[bluemask]

I used a Whites DFX for about 15 years and it was a great machine, SO great that I had 2, and 1 was a backup although it was extremely rare that I used it.
But the machines got old, and the screens started to fade and WHITES went out of business, so I sold mine and got an XP DEUS I and II as the new machines...
I use the DEUS I in playgrounds for small gold and coins, and DEUS II for old sites with iron, for coins and relics...
The DFX was a GREAT MACHINE no doubt, but it just aged out and now you can't get them repaired or serviced without a big hassle... SO... that's why I don't have one anymore 😭

the screen is easy to replace with a LCD you can find new on Aliexpress site (made it on the XLT I have). The only problem could be the motherboard's replacement . I owned the Deus (european product) for 1 year, but the discrimination will never be equal to the excellent Whites...

 

[TORRERO]

the screen is easy to replace with a LCD you can find new on Aliexpress site (made it on the XLT I have). The only problem could be the motherboard's replacement . I owned the Deus (european product) for 1 year, but the discrimination will never be equal to the excellent Whites...

I think my opinion was just that, an opinion, but If you have access to new screens, (I didn't) or other components that might go bad, more power to you.. Here for the sake of argument, I would say that MOST people don't and MOST people are not going to send their machines to Garret and hope they can fix out of warranty machines from a company that's out of business... For me (and only me) it was time to move on, and just so you know... I would put my XP DEUS II up against ANY other machine in a high trash area, and let the results speak for themselves.

 

[bluemask]

I think my opinion was just that, an opinion, but If you have access to new screens, (I didn't) or other components that might go bad, more power to you.. Here for the sake of argument, I would say that MOST people don't and MOST people are not going to send their machines to Garret and hope they can fix out of warranty machines from a company that's out of business... For me (and only me) it was time to move on, and just so you know... I would put my XP DEUS II up against ANY other machine in a high trash area, and let the results speak for themselves.

The world is beautiful for all different opinion...good detecting friend!

 

[pepperj]

the screen is easy to replace with a LCD you can find new on Aliexpress site (made it on the XLT I have). The only problem could be the motherboard's replacement . I owned the Deus (european product) for 1 year, but the discrimination will never be equal to the excellent Whites...

I'm pretty sure that when it comes to replacing a board/screen with some product off of Aliexpress site you're talking to a very limited group of folks.
Not many on the forum would take on the task of replacing such items on the detector.
I do tip my hat to you for having that skill set.

Owning a machine for a year is a questionable length of time.
(Note all the Deus products are France/Ireland made are they not?)

Probably you had the the Deus l?
It's questionable in heavy iron, not that it wasn't good at separation it was a learning process.
I switched to the XY screen early on with the Deus l for iron ID
I ran the machine for 5yrs before buying the Deus ll which is a lot better at ID separation.

Yes White's did make a bunch of great machines (past tense)and from owning every top model from the early 70's into the 90's.
Then Minelab surpassed them I believe, and I ran the explorer series till the Deus l came around.

Getting used to using one machine is the number one secret of detecting I believe.
Some folks have thousands of hours on that model and know every different sound it's putting out to know if it's a target to dig or not.
Some folks buy the latest machine advertised believing it will solve their inability of finding keepers-then they repeat it again. Buying ever accessory coil believing that will solve the issue of coverage/depth/separation.
Yet just putting on the hours will in fact solve most issues with the machine and putting the keepers in the pouch.

 

[Davemill]

I bought my first DFX used in 2008. It was an early production model and had seen plenty of use. It died a few years back, leaving an orphaned Bigfoot coil.

Last month I bought a replacement DFX which is in better shape than the first one when I first got it. It looks like a late production model. Those sweet tones are literal music to my ears...

 

[bluemask]

I apologize for the delay in writing but I had important commitments that kept me away from the detecting scene for a few months.
On the Deus 1... it was a question of feeling: it seems to be a characteristic of XP Metaldetectors (I had other metal detectors of theirs in the past such as the Goldmaxx "Mito" and the Adventis), but on the "good" iron (military) I was not satisfied at all, several targets were not detected correctly. Coming from very complex instruments such as the XLT and the DFX (also the Minelab Explorer II) the learning curve could only be rapid, certainly it did not take more than a year to understand the Deus 1, which I did not regret at all. I respect your opinion, probably I will be considered a vintageist but in research this makes no difference.