User Reviews
Community reviews of metal detectors. Contribute by adding your own reviews.
Overall, the Simplex Ultra is a fantastic affordable detector. Very easy to accustom oneself with and is appropriate for most detecting situations.
Incredible recovery speed even at depth, very light weight, folds down to 25 inches for transport, vibrate function for the audio impaired or underwater hunts, detector works with any Bluetooth headphones, though aptX equipped phones should be used to get lag-free performance, tone breaks with individual frequency and volume adjustments, good unmasking qualities in iron, ground suppressor for chatty soil, 99 tone option for a complete audio spectrum, fully submersible
Iron audio is off by default, and one must remember to switch it on to hear the ferrous signals. Not a huge problem, but rather annoying that the unit does not maintain this setting when turned off. No bottle cap reject may deter some users, not the greatest in salt water.
I own this as my first metal detector and it is amazing. In my first hunting on the beach I found a 100 years old coin in the first 10 minutes of searching. Very silent machine on the beach.
Easy to do initial setup and start hunting. The pre programmed modes (park, beach, field) are very good and enought to give you good results. Lightweight detector and amazing sensitivity and discrimination.
Not exactly something bad, but custom configurations may be difficult as there are so many options, so I recommend general users to use the default search modes or to ready the 50+ page manual.