i had a safari and trade up to get a deus. the safari was slow, and i used it with a little sunray sniper coil most the time. i never found anything really deep with the safari...about 7 inches max. i always felt it was too slow and i was missing things with it. i also felt it was not the machine for finding gold. Never found any of that either. I should have bought the etrac. The Deus seems really deep. I have a quarter at 9 inches in my backyard and the safari, mxt, at pro and tejon could not find it. After setting up the Deus to search deep, it found the quarter like instantly. i used all those other machines and none of them ever made a peep. i did find some nice gold rush era relics with the safari though. I found a Chinese coin with the Safari. I wanted one machine for all my needs and i chose the Deus. I got tired of havin one that sat in a corner all the time. I wanted one that was more for gold and was fast...i didnt like a slow machine, and the Safari is slow. waiting for the safari to retune was no fun. the Deus is fast and you hear everythying in the ground if you want. I felt like i was missing things with the Safari while it nulled all the time. Im not super pro detector man or anything, just a novice who enjoys it, so if any are offended by this post, dont throw your back talk at me...this is just my own experience and interpretation.