Question on Whites 6000 Pro XL and the MXT All Pro.

[jhen999]

I have a chance to trade a Whites 6000 Pro XL for a MXT All Pro would you do that trade, and why? other than age of the machine. Is the MXT Pro a better machine ?

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

I have a chance to trade a Whites 6000 Pro XL for a MXT All Pro would you do that trade, and why? other than age of the machine. Is the MXT Pro a better machine ?

Personally I would keep the XL Pro, I use to have one and I regret selling it.....

 

[pescadore]

I have a MXT (not pro) and have owned the 6000 di pro sl and in my opinion the MXT will outperform the 6000, i liked the analog meter on the 6000 but the TID on the MXT is very good. I think it would just be personal preference. The MXT is a deep and stable machine and I really like it.

 

[Wayfarer]

I've had 'em both and I'd keep the XL Pro. Mainly because the XL Pro is much harder to find, and if you have one already, you'd better hang onto it. If you sell your XL Pro, you *will* regret it. You can always find MXT's on the used market.

The XL Pro and MXT are my two favorite White's detectors and compliment each other very nicely. The XL Pro is a great open cruiser unit. Quiet, deep, and you can cover a lot of ground quickly, especially with the 9.5" concentric coil. When the trash starts getting thick, you can switch to the MXT which has a much faster recovery speed and its two-tone relic mode makes sifting through the ferrous/non-ferrous trash a breeze. I leave the 9.5" concentric coil on my XL Pro and the 6x10 elliptical on my MXT and feel I have 99% of my detecting covered that way.

So if you can swing it, get both. The XL Pro and the MXT is the perfect two-detector arsenal.

 

[jhen999]

Wayfarer...let me ask you...I have the Whites 6000 Di Pro SL along with the 6000 Pro XL....I think there about the same machines other than the size of the box and the volume control....The guy that has the MXT All Pro..wants the Pro XL for his MXT....I like the Di Pro SL because it has a volume control...is there any real difference between the Pro XL , Di Pro SL and the MXT ALL Pro in performance ..?

 

[Wayfarer]

The 6000 Di Pro SL has the volume control, like you pointed out. This is not a big deal since almost all aftermarket headphones include a volume control on them. I just use the volume control on my Jolly Rogers.

I have both the Di Pro SL and the XL Pro, and I think I like the XL Pro a bit better. Of course there is the size and weight advantage to the XL Pro, but besides that, the XL Pro is just a tad smoother and deeper. It's close though, and might just be placebo effect but most guys that use them both seem to agree the XL Pro is just a tad better in performance. The way I understand it, White's took the circuit design of the old 6000 and started with a clean slate, using the best components possible and tweaking it for low noise, when they redesigned the XL Pro. That makes sense, because the XL Pro does seem a little quieter and falses a little less.

One thing to think about is that if you keep the XL Pro and get then MXT, then your two detectors will share battery packs.

I would keep the XL Pro, sell off the Di Pro SL, and use the money to put towards an MXT. You can find very nice original model MXT's for around $400 used, so you'd only have to put in $100-200 more after you sell your Di Pro SL to be able to buy a good used MXT. The MXT Pro is not worth the extra expense, the non-pro MXT is just as good performance-wise. Everybody seems to want to Pro, so the non-pro MXT's are usually very good bargains. I can live without the additional features of the Pro which don't do anything for performance anyway, they are just bells and whistles.

 

[jhen999]

I know one thing for sure both the Di Pro SL and the XL Pro are vary hard to find and when you do they hold there value vary well, took me about a month of looking all over the country to find the XL Pro and had to pay a pretty good price for it, I have seen the Di Pro SL on ebay going for around $500 to $600 when they come up, I have never seen an XL Pro for sale...I had to put a wanted add on here for the XL and was lucky to have someone get ahold of me about one they had, they had it for 20 years and hardly used it, just hanging in there garage..when I got it, looked like it had never been used and seamed to work just fine, but I sent it into whites to have them check it out just to make sure, but like I said it didn't come cheap. Funny you see a lot of the 6000 blue box ones for sale all the time, the black box ones, not so much, people that have them must hang onto them. I agree with you Wayfarer, no need to have two machines that are basically the same machine...I do like the idea of the MXT Pro with the multi tones..

 

[GreenMeanie]

I would go with the MXT but here is a deal on a SL pro.
And do those two Detectors run on the same FREQ? If not something else to think about depending on the hunting you do.
White's 6000 Di Pro SL Metal Detector