If you were going to search on a beach any at all get the equinox If your going into the salt water. I sniffed out more targets with an ORX in the same area that I swung my equinox.ģ. It is faster and lighter than the equinox. It finds coins very well and it is an excellent relic machine. I think the ORX is a better machine in trashy areas. It does pretty good for relic hunting too.Ģ. It has less numbers to memorize for targets and is a pretty good machine. However I prefered to use single freq and it ran much smoother. It works pretty good in the multi freq mode. I think the equinox is a great coin shooting detector. I am not going to get into a shooting match between the units other than this ġ. I liked the eq600 but I prefer the xp orx to the equinox. I have had the eq600 and both deus and orx. That's seeming to lean back to the Equinox for me. Thanks for an incredible deep assessment. I saw a video of the Equinox detecting coins right next to an iron bar. I like the idea of a detector that handles trash well. Both good detectors though and at about the same price, you can't go wrong with either one. If you are mainly a relic hunter, either is good but I would lean more towards the ORX if your sites are filled with iron trash. If you want to park hunt, I would definitely go with the Equinox for it's more accurate ID.
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I have the Deus and the Equinox, the Deus is a little more adjustable than the ORX but they are about the same. At $650, it's at the price range of the ML NOX 600.Īs I live in Florida, being able to go into the water with a detector was a must, so the ORX would have been out of the running for me. I've never used the XP ORX but after watching a couple of videos on it, it looks like a very nice machine. If you had the money to get both, they would compliment each other very well!!! As a day to day modern trash park hunter.the ORX would be okay for surface to shallow targets if you don't mind wading through lots of trash and depending on what coil you buy. So, the Orx and Deus are unmatched at relic hunting away from lots of modern trash, they are good gold prospecting detectors and can handle some beach conditions. Also, even though the target ID screen is much bigger on the ORX than the Deus, the numerical target ID function of the Deus and ORX is one of their weakest features since accuracy on deeper targets or targets in high mineralization is very iffy or non-existent and the Deus and ORX become tone only detectors past about 4" in my area in high mineralization.
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The audio is somewhat limited adjustment wise and is radically different but full of information when compared to the mellow and somewhat less informative tones and many tone options of the Etrac and Equinox. If you are looking for a detector that can do everything very well like the Equinox, I would not consider the ORX to be in that category. So, if you are primarily a relic hunter or detect in areas that are not target rich with lots of aluminum trash, the ORX would be an outstanding choice.
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A big minus is that the moment you submerge the coil in water you will lose contact with the coil's wireless connection unless you buy the underwater kit. The Gold modes are good for prospecting, relic hunting and dry sand beach hunting since they are true threshold based all metal modes with an Iron Audio Reject feature that helps tone down iron audio responses. It is limited to 3 tones maximum in the two discrimination Coin modes. The Orx has 21 (I think) one at a time, selectable frequencies depending on which coil comes with it. Personally, the ergonomics of the ORX/Deus are unbeatable along with the overall recovery speed and target separation of these detectors. The ORX for about the same price as the Nox 600 and cheaper than the Nox 800 is an interesting comparison. It is very good to excellent at every detecting scenario you can think of except maybe submerged in moderate surf conditions and hunting relics in thick iron trash. It has very accurate target ID after getting familiar with it but it isn't as good as the Etrac's incredible accuracy. It is much lighter than the Etrac with similar audio tones and audio adjustments, much faster recovery speed, better target separation and excellent depth even in mineralized soil. The Nox is a simultaneous multi frequency and selectable single frequency detector that is supposed to be fully waterproof (there have been many reports of leakage lately but the warranty covers it).