I've been watching and reading about these machines for a while, very confusing all the technical data, to someone like me who usually just lifts heavy things.
How long will the ground breaking technology in metal detecting continue, as technology advances so will everything else, including metal detectors, will that also include pricing, yep, pretty much a guarantee,
Selling my 5000 today (hopefully) tough and hard decision?, you bet ya, got a little soft spot for it, it's given me some great finds but not without a lot of pain,
So how hard will it be to run the GPZ, unfortunately I won't be finding out as I'm heading down the path of washing instead of detecting, so what dose this mean to the detectorists who wish to upgrade again, low prices on your older model detectors for a higher price on the new, pretty much the norm.
I out layed near on $7,500 in total for the 5 and accessories, (plus $450 on a course on how to use it) selling price, $4800, if the big girl had an hour meter on it it probably wouldn't see 50 on the clock, thems the blows when buying and selling up/outdated detecting gear.
I certainly hope minelab get it 100% right with this GPZ, and save a lot of pain for the non technical minded prospectors such as myself the heart ache of spending countless hours testing then wondering if the new unit we just forked a fortune out for is not looking over ANY gold, wether that be small nuggets deep or speci's shallow, good luck to all who purchase the model, I'm going to have to shadow sit on this one less certain parts of my anatomy end up being turned into a coin purse!!!! 8.(