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MonteMax
That terrible, way-rear rod-mount location wasn't so visibly ugly and the coil wasn't prone to being bumped out of a proper 'flat' orientation with the ground

All nokta/makro little coil are like that. The good thing is nokta/makro made extremely heavy duty coil ears on the legend coils. You can really crank them down so they don't move without worrying about them breaking.

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MonteMax
The Legend's circuitry, combined with the 6" DD, can match or better the performance I can achieve in those tough sites with a small-coil equipped FORS CoRe or Relic, or an original Racer or Racer 2, or any other serious performing device I use

I cant say this for sure, just because I haven't been able to get out much yet. I can guarantee you that the legend W/6" coil and SMF will definitely give our old sites a different look with the advantage of the SMF tech. The Legend is fast, fast, with adjustable recovery speed. IF EMI is a issue its still a smoking performing machine with single freq. With all that being said is almost impossible for the legend not to have an advantage over say a racer2, or Core.

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If The Legend also has a good, clean audio and it isn't too 'digitized-soubding', then that would also be good.

Some major audio options with Legend. Major upgrade I would say yes. The wireless headphones alone are high quality. Probably the best bluetooth on market being sold by detector manufacturers today. IF your stuck on the old analog style tones then maybe legend is not for you. I like to use so many different detectors I cant notice the difference hardly in the audio. I also don't have hearing loss, and try not to focus on the small differences in audio and put more of my focus on performance differences. I understand the need for good audio that is easy on the ears, kinda like how some like the S shafts better then Straight shafts.

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