Minelab EQUINOX 800

This morning i took my Equinox 800 to some beaches . Yesterday i used my Explorer 11 and it didn't look good so i thought if i got a bit of time with the new machine and found a few targets then that would be fine.

So i got there at around 5am switched on and as i didn't know much about settings left everything as it was except sens at 24 and tones 50 , and threshold at 7 .
I found the beach to be pretty good looking and quite scuffed and some cuts here and there and saw no reason why the Equinox couldn't find any targets that might be about .
As the tide was on the way out i went to the waters edge and dunked the coil to see how the machine reacted and it was quiet , no falsing . Though later there was a bit when i was washing the coil at the end of my search , may have been a bad area on the beach and the machine didn't act any different to my Explorer 11 .
I searched around 1 and a half miles of beaches in just over 4 hours and even though i found quite a good score i didn't feel the machine was any better than my other FBS machines . In fact i thought it fared poorly for depth.
I felt that the depth capability wasn't as good as i hoped and i wasn't able to find targets deeper than 8 inches and any that were that deep were quiet and muffled in the headphones .
That could be the headphones though as yet again a Minelab machine is released with the wrong type , especially for beach detecting . I have never found any better headphones than the Gray Ghost and maybe Minelab should consider that sort in future . Even if we have to be fleeced for the privilege