What is really dumb is a knuckle head like me. I have three high dollar machines, one analog and two digitals purchased from a from a prestigious manufacturer just down the road, simply because the company is just down the road, and when my coil went bad on the analog machine, I drove up there and they fixed it for nothing while I was looking at their fabulous museum of eat your heart out finds. Now my two digital machines can be programed by someone that knows how, and is inclined to, but the knuckle headed owner hasn't got the foggiest idea of how to program them, and isn't really interested in finding out, so those are just used on the presets. So why didn't I just buy an inexpensive unit and pay for my inexpensive machine with finds, which will probably never happen with the spendy ones I'm using now. I bought an inexpensive machine in the 60's, and never found much of anything with it, for sure nothing smaller than a spoon. The non programmable analog machine has found more good stuff than the two digital ones combined, except I got out more often in those days which probably accounts for it's success. Now days that's my loaner for the grand kids, and they do very well with it. On top of only using presets, I have discrimination on the spendy units, and usually dig everything anyhow. For an old guy that's hard of hearing, probably high dollar ear phones are more important than a fancy discriminating detector, because those subtle sounds are more important, and with my ears I've come to depend on the visual readout more than sound.
When I saw the thread title, I thought for sure we were going to get the inside scoop on the "Gary Drayton Report." He has successfully slipped my private investigator's surveillance efforts in Fort Lauderdale twice now! 
