DR.ÖTEK Metal Detector for Adults Professional, Gold Metal Detector, Pinpoint & Exclusive Memory Mode, Higher Accuracy, IP68 Waterproof Coil, Bigger Backlit LCD Display, New Advanced DSP Chip, Green

Got this so I can walk beach in sand & along water & have something fun to do as I walked.. It works great & covers deep depth especially as you walk along the shore alot of different metals. Simple to use & sturdy, easy to assemble & good price

Heres just some of what I think it does well. Full disclosure Im just a regular dude who has only owned one other cheapo before this. Its super easy to put together, super easy to read, super easy to operate, runs off 1 battery. I replaced the original battery after a solid 10 to 12 hours swinging. Second is staying strong. The battery indicator tells me so. A nice feature. The pin pointer is spectacular to those like me who have never had that option before. And because the price is so reasonable I was able to save up for a Garrot Carrot a week later and the two of them working together is true harmony. Its much lighter then my old prospector and adjusted to fit my arm and swing very well. Im average 5 10 ish. Having the back light for the screen actually got me to finish a session at dusk when I wasnt leaving until I found that darn dime. I knew it was a dime because thats what it told me it would be. The numbering and chart on screen is tremendous again for those who never had it before. What continues to blow my mind is when it picks up coins in a hole shared by a nail or two. Thats impressive to me. Discriminating options for targets, the memory setting works. Lots of good if not great with this machine and tops for the price.The bad is petty in my opinion but the headphones are garbage and only the left ear works. But having a headphone option alone outweighs that complaint. NAILS. It loves them even when the iron is muted. Some larger nails and iron are registering as coin if they are close to the surface. I can see that being an issue if Im scouring the beaches but since Im concentrating on woods and colonial relics, I dig everything.Its loud even with the three volume settings at its lowest. I use the headphones so again for me its a non issue. Having 3 volume options is still pretty sweet. Back lighting will drain power fast and I havent tried the coil submerged yet but for the price I couldnt find anything on the market that compared and after hours of research put in I am glad that the Dr. is my next step up in the world of detecting. My buddy was pretty impressed with mine and ordered one for himself. Its his first and I cant wait for the first day when we bet $5 on who finds the coolest relic! If this is your first detector or you want something more detailed then a four bar 4 sound alert, this detector wont let you down. Quite the opposite for me. I love more each hunt.

Update 8/2023: Adding another star for great customer service!DR.ÖTEK followed up with my on my follow-up review below and sent me their MT6 pinpointer for free. I'm impressed at how awesome they've been since my original difficulty with my MT-XR. That pinpointer is great and I have a 5-star review waiting for Amazon's approval for it right now.Update 4/2023: Bringing the review up from 1 star to 3.After several months following the posting of my original review (after it became the most popular negative review of the product, catching the manufacturer's attention), DR.ÖTEK reached out to me and offered to send me a replacement unit. I accepted and they shipped me the bare detector, not the kit that I had originally ordered, but that's ok since it didn't cost me anything but my time. Unfortunately by the time I received it and had a chance to put it together, the weather had turned and the ground had begun to freeze for the winter.I was finally able to give it a try a couple of weeks ago and immediately noticed a difference. Within one hour, my daughter and I unearthed two "treasures" from our back yard, one part of a fancy old brass lamp and the other a copper spout-shaped object that I'd say weighs about 3 ounces and had been tooled. Both of these were buried around 5 inches down. I used the pinpoint mode to help "zero in" on the objects which was helpful, but not terribly accurate. I nearly missed the copper thing until I expanded my dig outward a few inches, so I think rather than the intense ringing being detected in the center of the coil, it was closer to the bottom-left edge of it. If I can repeat that behavior, I'm thinking about marking that point of the coil with some marker paint as the true "center". But I'll probably buy a separate pointer detector too.Coin tests like I had done previously were much more accurate than with the first detector, so I guess I definitely received a bad one the first time around. I decided to upgrade the review to three stars as I think it's a fair thing to do. I'm still frustrated by the hours of wasted time and my daughters disappointment the first time around. She had fallen in love with the TV show Expedition Unknown and the idea of finding buried treasure which is what led us to this metal detector. Now her excitement has returned.Original review:I had high hopes for this detector based on the overall rating based on Amazon reviews, the unit's features (the pinpoint mostly), and the cleanliness and user-friendliness of the display and controls. I thought about being charitable with my review and adding stars for those things, even considered adding one for the digging tool, which while small is actually pretty cool and I think rather well-made. BUT after three hours of frustration with multiple repeatable hits and finding nothing, not even a bottle cap or nail I've decided the DR.ÖTEK deserves ZERO stars. But that may be unfair you might think, not knowing what my settings were or if I was trying to detect around an old iron mine or something. No, it was in my average backyard. Farmland filled in with sandy dirty fill about 120 years ago. I did some fairly detailed testing to see what was wrong with my unit.First, I tried a few metal objects waving at various distances from the coil with the detector laying on a plastic table about 20" from the ground and far from any metal. It gave some decent results - my gold wedding ring came in at about 55-70 and was detectable at about 5 inches. Not great but not terrible. This was done at the default sensitivity level of 3. Interesting results with coins and a hefty chunk of silver I have that is about 1/4" thick and roughly the size and shape of a men's western belt buckle. The coins (current US mint pocket change) gave very sporadic results. Sometimes I had to almost brush the coil with a quarter to make the detector respond (ALL METAL mode) and it would regularly bounce all over the scale - 05 to 90+ for something like a penny or quarter. The heavy silver was surprisingly low on the scale - ringing in between 50 and 85, but never in the 90s.I could go on forever with the tests I did - all different materials, every sensitivity setting. But the best test was one my 9 year old came up with. She buried an aluminum arcade token (that we'd been testing with previously as well - I think about the size of a quarter, but thicker) about 2 inches deep in one of five depressions in my yard I'd recently filled in with soil. The game was that I had to detect which spot she'd buried the token in. She had roughed them all up so it was hard to tell which had the buried treasure. Well, I lost the game. DR.ÖTEK failed to detect the token. 2 inches down. We then tried the same test with a nickel and a quarter, both buried at about 3 inches. I got hits on them, but all over the place - 02, 50, 90 etc. Sometimes repeatable, sometimes not. Either way, I'd never try to dig those spots. So we'd miss everything.The ONE use I think this DR.ÖTEK has is to locate a recently dropped piece of jewelry or something. Anything just out of eyesight, hidden by blades of grass. But then, there are much CHEAPER detectors available that I'm sure would do that just as well. I'm contemplating doing a video review of how bad this thing is before I return it and buy either a Fisher, Minelab, or Garrett metal detector.

The media could not be loaded. If you, or your child, are looking to enter the world of metal detecting, but don't want to shell out for one of the big companies' starter models, this is a good choice.Easy to put together and extremely light, you can get started quickly and get up to snuff in a relatively short amount of time.I used this in sand and was able to easily find a series of coins placed 3" down. Target ID was pretty accurate on the different coins, especially on some pre-1965 silver. Those rang up at 99 quickly. Other coins rang up correctly, although sometimes they would register as iron initially (but a subsequent pass brought up the right ID).The Pin-Pointer function was very accurate and helped me recover the dime I couldn't find by sifting.The headphones included won't ever be mistaken for Beats but worked fine. They were light and comfortable and, surprisingly, fit my big head with ease.Also included was a sturdy carrying bag and a digger with a sheath. I was really impressed with the digger/knife. Extremely solid with sharp teeth (look at the attached photos) this will cut through dirt and roots easily. For an add-on, this was a quality piece that surprised me.Overall a nice introduction to the hobby without breaking the bank, especially when on sale.

Very easy to put together and Very Light to hold onto. First time using it on the rocky ocean side beach it went off everywhere finding anything metal. Metal Detector works Great and seems to find everything in its path. Would recommend to everyone

Gave this to our grandson for Christmas, went for a walk on the local waste area we walked about twenty yards and located 2 coins 2 inches deep with a number range of 65This unit works perfect and we would recommend to anyone

nice and light easy to assembly

Very simple and straightforward unit. Instructions were clear and easy to follow. I tested it in my yard where I thought there would be nothing and it found a brass bolt about 4" under the soil!Customer service is top notch, they make sure everything is OK after you receive the unit. Great experience all around! Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to find buried treasure!

Fits all expectations for a first metal detector. Easy to set up, use and understand.