Hi Paul, thanks! Subscriptions were posted on Friday so depending on the weather/flooding they should arrive any day now...some have already dropped already!

@thesearchermag Just dropped on the Matt. 👍 Happy days.

Yes it is Andrew, your copy should arrive any day now!

@@thesearchermag wonderful many thanks

So you've been using it for a year? I'd like to know what it is that you find lacking?

@@stinkasscat stable target ID's, the 800 was far more stable, even taking into account the larger ID range.

@phrunt I watched one of your videos on the Manticore, and it was testing noise under power wires. Although the Manticore is a lot more complicated to set up, from all the videos I've seen, it's just as stable. If you try running high sensitivity all the time, then of course, you aren't going to have a stable ID. I've experienced jumpy ID with both 800 and 900. Xterra Pro has a jumpy ID until you turn it down to 18 or below. I don't consider this to be the main criteria for the rating capabilities of a detector. I saw a ton of negative comments about the Manticore when it came out, and having the machine for anything less than six months doesn't qualify to know the machine. If you are getting your information from Merrill, then you are headed in the wrong direction. I have an associates degree in electronics, and he doesn't know the difference in electronics between a detector and a vacuum cleaner. I've had the 900 for a year and used it daily. By no means do I believe I'm an expert with it, but my finds have drastically improved over what I was finding with the 800. I doubled or tripled in each category the amount of finds over the 800. I ordered the Manticore this week since it dropped in price, and I will be back in six months to give you my honest opinion of using it. The experts that I do trust rate this machine at the top alongside the Deus II.

@@stinkasscat I've had it since it came out, it's a good detector, I'm not saying it's not, but it is less stable on Target ID than the Nox 800, I tend to run it on 17 sensitivity most of the time when coin hunting even if there is no EMI problems as any higher and the ID's become even more unstable. It's a shame it's a bit of a step backwards for ID's, in all other areas its a step forwards.

@phrunt Can you show me a video of what you are talking about? I just watched Stef Digs' recent video from a day ago, and she was getting stable numbers while running sensitivity at 24. Do you do the long press when making a noise cancel? I've heard that this handles the emi much better.