In a word, Disappointing
A scathing report on a what “appeared” to be a well made detector*
* “well made” refers to the “exterior” of the detector, NOT the interior (electronics etc…).
Now, the Garrett Axiom Review, hmmmm, so this Axiom metal detector review is a culmination of findings from other known Axiom users, both online and by direct contact. It includes my personal experience with the Garrett company and Garrett Axiom metal detector.
Remember, this is “my opinion” or the opinion of those who have shared “their opinion” on the findings of the Garrett Axiom pulse induction metal detector. READ TILL THE END and YOU WILL GET THE ANSWER to why I posted this!
Case and Point
ABOVE: For those with keen eyes might notice, the gold here isn’t terribly small, and definitely isn’t terribly large. Also when he states you can’t hear it in one part….you actually could “a little”.
There is an ever growing list of problems people are having with their Garrett Axiom pulse induction metal detectors. From the get-go, the release of the Axiom in Australia had been tarnished with a few D.O.A’s followed by some “misbehaving” with errors from ground balance to random noises etc…
It was spoken about among the prospecting community that possibly Australia happen to receive a “bad batch” with others praising it’s performance. It was just strange that there were such extremes in reported performance.
An introduction….
“The Axiom is one of the best quality, well made and comfortable machines that has less sensitivity but improved depth over the Minelab SDC 2300 metal detector – and does not handle hot ground well at all. On the other hand – it can and does find larger nuggets at varying depths with both coils”.
COURTESY: www.detectorprospector.com
NOTE: Originally when released for sale the Garrett Axiom had some cord/cable issues which won’t be covered here as it was quickly rectified by Garrett, but left a bad taste in the mouths of those who had the misfortune of encountering it. You can read further by searching “Axiom” at https://www.detectorprospector.com
In the beginning
EDITOR: The first run of my Axiom detector revealed I had a faulty 7×11 inch mono coil so returned it to the Australian distributor in Queensland who then tested it over a few days and agreed to replace it. So customer service from Garrett Australia, well I couldn’t complain.
It’s been reported that the Axiom is a little more powerful than the Garrett ATX, but from what I have seen, this mainly relates to larger targets. In the USA I see reviews with results showing shallow small gold and deep larger gold – pretty much what you would expect from any Pulse Induction metal detector. It can and does detect deeper targets when they are larger, possibly 1/2 gram plus (and with the larger 11×13 MONO coil) and is sensitive to small gold right in the center of the coil also.
In my experience, from day 1, problems problems, problems. I have run many tests with my wife and her Minelab GPX 6000 every time we go prospecting. Once we had a decent large flat specimen (quartz containing visible gold) where the Garrett Axiom would only whisper the signal, the GPX 6000 screamed it’s pants off!
After that experience, I videoed the situation and sent the specimen plus the complete detector back to Garrett Queensland ($75 postage on my part – Garrett covered postage on future returns) asking them to do a general check of my machine and to test the sensitivity.
I was worried I might have one of those previous manufacturing problems or that it was one of a few faulty one I hear had been replace for other customers. I’d expect a full diagnostic, field test, and “possible” tear-down so they could assure me of the condition absolute certainty?
Test results from Garrett Australia
Garrett Australia returned the my Axiom detector (and specimen) stating “there was no fault found” ….and the sensitivity was a little better than what I showed in the test video. While not a highly technical demonstration, it was more to show the significant differences in sensitivity/target response when comparing the Minelab GPX 6000 vs Garrett Axiom metal detectors. I did not get to see any proof of their claim and had to take their word for it.
Another target dig which turned out to be a nice small gold nugget gave me a repeatable signal. Must have been less than 50-60mm depth – dug it out and could not find it. I gave up and walked away.
Moments later, the wife calls out to me, “is this you?” (standing over my scraping), I replied, yes and get the message she got a 0.168g nugget that had moved to around 75mm depth under some overburden on the edge of my scrap. The Axiom simply could not find it no matter how long I spent looking for it.
Apparently, a 0.168g nugget at 75mm was out of the range that the Garrett Axiom could detect? The GPX 6000 screamed it’s head off detecting said nugget with absolute ease. Although I typically run my machines in Bogenes settings (which the Axiom does not perform well at), I did try different settings including factory settings – none of which could find the 0.168g nugget?
I know I went all over the spot as I invested close to 10 minutes in trying to relocate it. I never had this problem with my GPZ 7000 running X-coils but, could my detecting be better? of course. My point is that using the GPZ 7000 with 10 inch X-Coil – I’d find that same nugget at 150mm plus, same with the 6000 or a GPX 45/5000 with Sadie coil.
“Don’t believe the hype”
Progressively – my Garrett Axiom has been getting worse and operating more erratically. The first and major disappointment is that you simply cannot ground balance out hot rocks or hot ground and if you do manage to balance out hot ground, it very soon goes out again.
The second is that sometimes you have to do multiple noise cancels just for it to work at all so it stops going haywire, an absolutely failure of a detector – Garrett should be ashamed of this one.
Out at Inglewood, in the region of Victorian goldfields with known hot ground, the 11×7 mono coil was simply “unusable”, being so unstable, nothing would quieten it down long enough to move a meter before it went nuts though this was a weird on-again-off-again situation.
On the way back to the car I went over a very specific small patch of quartz gravel, less than a square meter, then finished up for the day. My wife says “have a go with the GPX 6000 on the same spot” as she had luck in a nearby area before. I walk over and within minutes, I get a gold nugget about 2-3 inches deep.
The Axiom completely missed this target, how much more gold had I walked across?
To be fair, I ended up using the 11×13 DD coil as a fall back on the day which behaved far better (stability) than the smaller mono coil. It is a bit heavier than the smaller coil so I couldn’t swing it all day. It was a little like using a concentric with the FOCUSED CORE and reliable on locating targets you could get the center of the coil to swing over.
To bad if you were in tight places as the edges have near zero sensitivity, so useless overall for patch hunting or working larger open areas, and good for cleaning up a patch. Working a large area with such a small central focus point seems futile.
FROM GARRETT: “Engineered with a centralized focused core, each Axiom DD search coil exceeds mono coil performance on small gold nuggets. DD coil is preferred where the most severe mineral conditions exist.”
Zero Confidence in the Axiom
I dread how much gold I am missing with the Axiom now having zero confidence in it. I go through the setting meticulously following online guides and other user recommendations to no avail. There is absolutely no fast swinging, or even medium.
Only low and slow now as it’s becoming apparent, target responses were difficult to hear when it decided to sing it’s own tune randomly. With the GPZ 7000 fitted with an x-coil there was 100% confidence, a completely different beast you CAN have 100% confidence in – ALL THE TIME!
Confidence in decline: I have to ask, why are there such “huge price drops” from the initial release price in the USA market? The detector has already had 1 major software update with a second rumored to be in the works – is this a good or bad thing? Australia is now seeing smaller price drops compared to the USA, but why when the cost of everything world-wide is going up? Something doesn’t smell right here…. it’s now almost half price??
Pros & Cons to consider
The Axiom is way to expensive to justify it’s performance, especially when purchasing outside of the USA. To buy this detector in the United States of America, you pay $3995USD which converts to around $5962AUD (conversion at 25th January 2024).
To buy one here in Australia is now a discounted $7199 (down from RRP $7385, https://www.garrettaustralia.com.au/axiom-wireless-package), so we pay $1237 more than the USA??? At best, this detector should be sold for no more than $2,500AUD, though should not be sold at all with how it currently performs “or” until its been fixed.
Initially, the Garrett Axiom started at $7199, then went through a series of discounts until the detector managed to drop to $$$$ for the “Axiom light”. How can you put out a product for $7199 then drop it to nearly half price (July 26, 2022) then by early 2024 we saw: “a storm is coming”… Garrett is offering an Australian “Axiom Lite” version ($2,999), on sale until March 31st. The day after on April 1st is Garrett’s 60th anniversary.
You would think “how can they do this?” Well it seems this cheap design, manufactured in bulk detector probably didn’t cost much to make at all. In fact, I dare say the carbon fiber shafts probably cost more than the actual electronics. Reducing the detector by $4,200 (less one coil and non-essential accessories) seems ridiculous – are we being scammed thousands of dollars for an inferior product?
EDITOR: YES!
ISSUES: https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/threads/garrett-axiom-issue-video.40950/
I’m not quite sure what this “Ultra Pulse Technology” is, but it does nothing for the detector other than giving it a fancy term.
FROM GARRETT: “Featuring ULTRA-PULSE Technology, advanced pulse timings provide enhanced sensitivity and complete versatility in the most extreme mineralized soils and in saltwater.”
The standard tone is quite horrible when compared to the nicer processed sound of a GPZ 7000, and even the GPX 6000 has a nicer sound to it.
It definitely IS MUCH LIGHTER than any of the Minelab range allowing people with physical issues to detect longer and easier than the Minelab detectors.
The Axiom (externally) exudes workmanship and “QUALITY” with a well built and designed layout. Who ever designed the physical aspect of this machine was right on the money. Ergonomics are 100% giving it 10/10 with the overall finish. Physically, it just works and is an absolute pleasure to swing all day long.
The companies service blows Minelabs service away being on the ball with their customers. But blowing their own company tune all the way along.
Personal experience with the Axiom vs 6000 showed that on average the Axiom could detect one target that the GPX 6000 could not see (using the standard 11 inch coil) for every 10 that it the GPX 6000 could. So I am getting 1 nugget and the other person using the 6000 will be getting 10….!
Garret’s Product Description
Lets investigate the claims…
The Garrett Axiom gives you absolute performance on gold of all sizes!
▶ typical marketing of every detector released, the “absolute performance” I would say is “conditional”, conditions are, “depth dependent” and “mineralization”.
Featuring ULTRA-PULSE Technology, advanced pulse timings provide enhanced sensitivity and complete versatility in the most extreme mineralized soils and in saltwater.
▶ I am yet to understand how ULTRA-PULSE Technology using digital processing is an improvement over other methods? The one benefit is lower power consumption, but is that such a good thing when you actually loose performance for that gain? Why do you think the GPZ7000 has such a big control box and heavy battery pack?
Choose from four settings, each ideally engineered for finding all types of gold, from larger nuggets to sub-gram pickers. The Axiom also includes TERRA-SCAN, this advanced system provides independent dual-channel ground balance that covers the full range of mineralization, from heavily mineralized magnetic ground to saltwater, and everything in between.
▶ well, it does have this setting, and you can change it and get different results, BUT!, again it is “conditional”. The Axiom only produces these results of handling the ground “depending” on what your “sensitivity” is set at. A talented detector technician once said: “sensitivity is the processing of the signal post-detection” showing the detection side of things to not be as powerful as one would expect.
The first Garrett Axiom update addressed handling ground mineralization better and increased sensitivity plus lower threshold options. Did it improve raw performance?, NO. It did make the detector more stable and more enjoyable, (or less frustrating) to use though?
The IRON CHECK feature helps you audibly identify iron targets with the Axiom when using a DD searchcoil.
▶ yes, with the DD coils – this does work, and it works quite well with much less errors than I would see on the GPX 5000 using Iron Reject. A handy, yet not essential option.
Axiom’s built-in, high capacity lithium ion battery provides extreme battery life! With about 16 hours on full charge, it provides twice the battery life offered by some prospecting detectors. Extend your time in the field, with the included Booster Pack, for +6 more hours! The Axiom booster pack holds 8 AA batteries, either standard or rechargeable. Use this pack to get another 6 hours of battery life in remote areas.
▶ at first I wasn’t sure about the Axiom’s power system, but have since learned to love it. An amazing amount of battery life is available. Sometimes I’d get into my 3rd day prospecting without charging. No longer do you need to worry about having a flat battery.
The other thing that I personally DO like is the USB-C charging port with non-removable primary battery. With modern technology everywhere, you can recharge with many, many options available. No more removable clunky battery issues. To me, this is a definite PLUS (but will it find you gold like other detectors?).
Choose from 2 audio types, either PWM Audio or VCO Audio options – great for VLF users moving to this machine who are still tuned in to the VLF signal noise.
▶ As far as the standard tone is concerned, a GPZ 7000 I could listen to all day long. The Axiom seems to have a very flat, hollow, unprocessed tone sound that is not to my liking at all.
With the audio, having the speaker facing your body with a lot of volume available is an improvement over the 6000, but far from perfect. Running the coil over gravel type ground, you cannot hear the detector at all over the scraping sounds. This brings me to the wireless technology all modern detectors seem to have their own proprietary patents over. What a load of rubbish!
The Axiom is 5 plus years newer than the GPZ 7000 but still has the exact same issue of physical interference. If you block the direct signal from detector to receiver with any part of your body what-so-ever, or any other solid object, it will drop out or break up the sound??? (GPZ7000 is similar).
I run a cheap 5.8ghz plug in guitar RX/TX system and have perfect “zero-delayed” and “crystal clear” transmission out to 30 feet! With my body or some trees blocking the signal, it’s reduced to about 15 feet – and both the GPZ 7000 and Axiom’s proprietary systems won’t even go 2 feet without issue?
NOTES: Axiom Standard Package (PN: 1142720) Includes – Axiom pulse induction detector, MS-3 Wireless headphones, 13” DD searchcoil, 11” Mono searchcoil, soft travel pack, Axiom battery booster pack, and charging cables.
Was it only me?
I was frustrated with the ground noise when my wife asks if I’d tried balancing out over a bad hot rock – up to this point I had only done it on the ground being worked in general. So I balanced the Axiom detector out perfectly over a very mineralized hot rock. Then I go to walk away and the very next hot rock booms through like a proper target – but here is the kicker. The first one I balanced over is was still “reasonably quiet” but slowly returning to out of balance?
How can a metal detector be this bad? Seriously it should never have been released to market.
Auto ground balance is strange and very vocal in how it lets you know, unlike the GPZ 7000 that does it quietly in the background, and being that the Axiom needs constant balancing, becomes an annoyingly noisy detecting day. It was overly noisy – the first few times I used the AUTO ground balance, it sounded like R2D2 having a mid-life crisis. Then other times it would do it without a sound, just way too random.
Manual ground balance (when it was working) would balance out quickly in some areas, and NOT AT ALL in others?? Now when I say “when it was working”, there were some days you simply could not use the Axiom detector. It would just holler up and down whether you had to coil to the ground or not. So multiple “NOISE CANCELS” would be performed and sometimes it would quieten down.
The quality of ground balance the machine offers is nothing short of horribly inadequate with it giving clean and clear powerful target signals on ever second hot rock. Hot ground would also give off target sounds but after a while you start to hear a particular tone for non-targets.
It did not matter which coil I was using and did not matter if sensitivity was up or down. Trying it on settings other than “FINE” did not make a difference to achieving a good ground balance.
Garrett Axiom vs Minelab GPX 6000
Air testing on the ground showed the GPX 6000 getting around 120% – 130% better depth on gold testing targets over the Garrett Axiom pulse induction metal detector. Real testing in the ground on un-dug targets proved similar results.
The Axiom was struggling to keep the ground balance to dissimulate the difference of a true target and just the ground while the Minelab GPX 6000 giving loud clear signals while staying in balance.
If you want to find yourself some gold in the bush, and not miss much, BUY YOURSELF A MINELAB GPX 6000, I highly recommend it. The GPX 6000 has become the number one favorite for serious gold detectorists across Australia.
I have since purchase a Minelab GPX 6000 for myself to compliment my GPZ 7000, and am amazed at after 8-10 months running the Axiom, I got VERY LITTLE gold, less than a gram. Using the GPX 6000 gets me gold every single trip – big and small!
One day we went gold prospecting at a place called Inglewood, and the Garrett Axiom did not want to have a bar of it. The 7×11 mono coil COULD NOT BE USED at all anywhere there as the ground was just too hot and the EMI too strong.
On the same trip, after not having any luck on the gold with the Axiom all day, I picked up my wife’s GPX 6000 and walked over the exact same ground I just went over meters away with the Axiom, and within minutes I was on to a nice little gold nugget. My wife was there watching and couldn’t believe what she just saw.
The larger 11×13 D coil managed the ground much better and had good sensitivity from small shallow, to larger and deeper targets. Great if you don’t mind swinging the extra weight around. But as most will know, Inglewood is dense brush-type forest so using a smaller coil is mandatory in places.
Speaking to Garrett, 5th December 2023
Today I engaged in a phone call with “Roy” from Garrett Australia. His title is………? sorry not sure, I call him the buffer zone who preaches the product and company. As any employee would back their product if they wanted to keep their jobs – but with an uninvited attitude.
Discussion was typically one eyed as you would expect so no progress there, though he mentioned he needed to get back out in the field to re-familiarize himself??? WHAT? At least Daniel from the service department was a little more “in-tune” with customer care who I now deal with.
Rusty Curry from the USA office was read in on the initial complaints, but correspondence was generally centered with the Australian office. I would have thought, such a large company would have made the effort to follow up with me directly (USA)?
What is Bogenes?
This brings me to Bogenes settings. Bogenes you say? Yes, a particular group of setting basically running like a GPX 6000 in auto. No threshold, higher sensitivity etc. Search the web, there is some further information out there.
The origins of Bogenes: Back in the GPX 4000 days and older gent named Bogene (in his 70’s I believe) came up with a method of detecting that is basically turning the threshold off, turning the gain and stabilizer up, and detecting like that (on early model Minelabs).
It allows you to run NO THRESHOLD for those with sensitive hearing, tinnitus, or other afflictions. This is perfect for those who also find headsets cumbersome as you can run the receiver on full volume if in a noisy/windy area and hear targets loud and clear all day long.
The Bogenes setting is very helpful to this day when detecting hot and noisy ground where running “Normal” is just out of the question, but retaining the strongest signal without all the noise.
So a very helpful function indeed, most Minelab equipment will allow this, in particular the GPZ 7000 and GPX 6000 which it was primarily meant for. In relation to the Axiom running these settings, yes, it does do it, but no, it doesn’t seem to suit the detector as well as the 6000, 7000 or any Minelab.
I have tried every other option and find Bogenes just works for my ears. I had Roy rubbish the Bogenes idea initially until he followed up on it – I’m guessing that’s because he isn’t “hands-on” or in the service department?
As for it possibly being a faulty unit – it was vaguely brushed off that any Axioms as a whole were faulty or needed replacement, yet I talk with individuals in Australia and the USA who say they did have their detectors replaced. I guess this is simple company politics so while not happy about it, will move on as Minelab would probably respond in a similar manner.
Garrett Axiom Review Conclusion
Typically I am more than generous in my product reviews giving credit where it is due and rarely slamming a product – until this. It made no sense, how could a company be so incompetent?
The Garrett Axiom should be re-classed as a low to mid-range pulse induction metal detector and sold for well under $4,000 AUD. Accessories (eg; coils) are also way overpriced. Then it would be appropriately fitting it’s niche sector.
To conclude, unfortunately with my experience on the machine, I would have to say this particular Garrett Axiom metal detector is pure RUBBISH.
Suggested options: AlgoForce E1500 BASIC Package
Regular price $2,275.00 AUD – Reviews speak for themselves!
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Whats inside the Garrett Axiom?
Not a lot it seems! The design has been compressed into what resembles a VLF layout relying on “processing” more than pure “analogue” power with post-processing. So what you are left with is a detector that lacks the punch of a GPZ 7000 and lacks the sensitivity of the GPX 6000 – and falls somewhere below an Algoforce but above an ATX. Sounds confusing, because it is – a detector without a niche by price or performance.
Following are some photos of the Axiom internals along with a bunch of quotes found on forums, webpages and various promotional material across the internet.
Well, that came out of nowhere, even has USB firmware upgrades. The price is right too, this is the price the Axiom should have been to really get into the market.,Looks like I want one!
The only DD I played with much in the last decade as been the Axiom 7×11 FC DD because of it’s unique features, but at end of day I have gone back the the 7×11 mono as being deeper and having more consistent audio responses.
I got the Infinium for Tahoe because the Axiom is actually too powerful and overloads with the mono coils, forcing me to use the DD coil.
That being said, with 7 years of GPX experience and just under 1 year of Axiom experience under my belt, I would have to say the GPX iron blanking implementation is slightly more reliable at depth than Axiom’s in correctly signaling iron.
A stable target ID is my only upgrade wish for the Axiom, as I have found the iron check to be unreliable on its own in my areas especially when the soil is wet.
Now I have an Axiom. I like it very much especially since I got it for really close to the $3000 price since it was a demo unit. Great user interface and display. Great ergonomics too. I still have serious questions about the focused core DD coils…
…the Axiom, they’re not extremely deep machines, but are hot on small gold.
I really like the fact that the E1500 and a s/h 4500/5000 would probably be less expensive than a new SDC or a new Axiom.
It doesn’t need to be better than a GPX 6000 or Axiom, at least by Australian prices as a guide, it’s cheaper than a Manticore by a couple of hundred bucks, for what appears to be a good performing PI. The Axiom is $7385 AUD, the GPX 6000 is sitting at $8999 AUD and the Algoforce $2275 AUD.
Granted the Axiom and GPX come with coils, headphones and other sweeteners the barebones Algoforce doesn’t, but that’s a bonus about the Algoforce if you ask me, I don’t want to pay for more headphones, more coils that I’ll never use, it’s a big price difference.
From https://phasetechnical.com.au/detectors/
▶ Minelab SDC 2300 AUD $4565
▶ GPX 5000 AUD $5499
▶ GPX 6000 AUD $8999
From https://www.prospectorspatch.com.au/product/garrett-axiom-metal-detector/
▶ Garrett Axiom AUD $7199
And now we have the AlgoForce E1500 at AUD $2275. If it is even just a match for the Axiom it is a game changer, and if it is better well them it is a GPX 6000 for 1/4 the price!
Detector Prospector – Axiom Ground Noise
Detector Prospector – Software Updates
For something to do – I downloaded the Updater software – and it recognises the firmware as 1.47.0 – this would be consistent with @Steve Herschbach version notations given I don’t have the missing block on startup. But I don’t think the software is updated properly for the Axiom yet because it’s calling it an Ace Apex….
The Axiom is at least as sensitive as the GPX series on smaller targets. I was running it very conservatively.
Minelab’s GPX 6000 has good ergonomics but the Axiom is on a whole different level.
Should I Buy An Axiom Metal Detector?
NO
Another way to look at this is from the inside to the outside.
THE INSIDE: After deciding that I deserved to give the Garrett more of a chance after my scathing review, I opened it up to see if maybe there was room for improvement on the inside? Well, unfortunately, opening it up only cemented my belief that this is a very cheap detector with only basic abilities.
The following images are of the Axiom Garrett metal detector. To me, it looks little more electronics than a VLF machine. There is no way in the world this detector could come anywhere near the performance of a Minelab. Inside a Minelab is like looking at the Ferrari of metal detectors with sound electronics, purpose built PCBs to undertake different duties, and very well made.
Inside the Axiom I see poor soldering with “dry joints” starting to appear on components. The electronic components seem to all rely on more of a digital processing design rather than solid analogue and digital electronics and processing. A Minelab uses around 8.4 volts, the Axiom around 3 volts. How can 3 volt that possibly translate into a powerful detector has me reassured that Minelab are the way to go.
It seems that Garrett have decided profits before people and released a sub-par product. It’s funny, I hear of people enjoying their Axioms, and I think that is great, but for a serious prospector, you need a product that 100% delivers, and the Axiom doesn’t. It is basically a single board machine, much like a simple VLF machine, without the components that can deliver the power you need.
The evidence is in!
Looking for answers, I pulled out my trusty digital microscope to investigate in detail.
THE OUTSIDE: Externally the Garrett Axiom gets 10 out of 10 though the external speaker could be louder.
Garrett Axiom Update
After being treated with contempt by Roy at Garrett Australia, dismissed by Garrett USA and told that I had unrealistic expectations. This was including having my views slandered in online forums where people proclaimed the Axiom as being an “excellent machine” along with “great gold recovery abilities” and that I didn’t know what I was talking about.
Garrett Australia offered me a second hand/used machine as a replacement under instruction from those above them when I for either a full refund (preferred) or a brand new replacement. I decided to dismantle the machine to check if there was any obvious problems, which led me to the following after noticing a very definite dry solder joint.
Well, I chose to keep my machine and look into this further when I had some time. First, I invested in a digital display electronics microscope and what it revealed will shock you. Am I dramatizing this, hell no! this is incompetence at it’s highest level by a major U.S company.
A company that specializes in “countermine” and security products which literally, peoples lives depend on. If this is the standard of work that “slips past” Garrett’s quality control, would you really trust their LAND MINE CLEARING equipment or their WEAPONS DETECTION equipment?
…..from Garrett USA/Our Story.
Today, the legacy of our founders lives on in the pride and attention to detail that Garrett employees put into every product we produce.
The Garrett Axiom might actually be a very good detector, but until Garrett recall each and every detector and repair to extremely poor quality soldering – we will never know!
NOTE: If Garrett are reading this, I’d appreciate a refund of the $6,800 AUD I paid for this as a (faulty from new) second hand detector. Not even asking for the full retail release price ($7,385AUD), which a class action could possibly bring. Even better still, produce a quality product and send me a replacement for an unbiased review? P.S. If you do, I will be checking the PCB’s again so make sure the a made properly…..who knows? it might even be a good detector, but the rubbish that you initially sold….well, that’s just embarrassing.
DON’T BUY A GARRETT AXIOM DETECTOR until they publish on their own website, the admission of the faulty boards and that they have rectified the problem. I would also expect free return-to-base checking on every single unit sold.
The section on ‘Bogenes’ settings was spot on as I have used these since the 4000 with some surprising results.