The Legend has not shipped to anyone yet, it's supposed to be shipping out mid-December but with the shipping container issues lately who knows when they will actually be in the hands of users/reviewers. Maybe Terry Solomon knows. What are you talking about by "a hype campaign"? Are companies not allowed to hype up their newest product? I guess no one saw the Equinox 800 coming huh? Some of the specs are already out there floating around, just do a Google search for Nokta Legend specs and you should have them. Also, have you ever seen a review of a detector before it was released? What do you mean by this "Nokta is always the detectors that clearly beat the Equinox. So far they haven’t come close". You are contradicting yourself here, so I'm not sure what you are saying. I for one will not be picking up this detector anytime soon. I'm loving my Racer 2 and my Multi Kruzer still doesn't leak so I don't need another underwater machine. I think the new features are nice, like the ferro check and the ability to save 4 separate presets. Also the carbon fiber lower shaft is great. One came standard on my Makro Kruzer and there is no flex to it. The clock is a nice addition, it's not huge, but something that someone asked for and they just added it in, and just in the past few days changed the warranty from 2 to 3 years because someone asked them to! Have you ever heard of any company doing that? There is a Facebook group dedicated to the Legend and it's features. You may want to look into it to see what others are saying. You'll find that Dilek from Nokta/Makro is present on that forum and answering questions.