DR.ÖTEK Metal Detector for Adults, Professional Metal Detectors Waterproof with 10" IP68 Coil, Larger LCD Display, High Accuracy for Gold & Silver Detection & Beach Treasure Hunting, Beginner Friendly

After purchasing and using the Dr Otek Pinpointer with an old metal detector that I had, I decided to find a new metal detector. Since the Pinpointer worked great I stayed with the Dr Otek brand when looking for the metal detector. I purchased the Dr. Otek Lightweight Metal Detector, model MT-XR. Right out of the box it was easy to assemble, sturdy, full of features that my old metal detector did not have. I had not used the older one for 20 years so my use of metal detectors was rusty, but was easy to learn (after reading the operating manual). The reason I was wanting a new metal detector was for locating my home lot corner markers, which are made of iron. The MT-XR made easy work of finding three of the four corners. The fourth corner was where the development builders dumped all their spare nails, screws, flashing trimmings and other metallic items. So the MT-XR was very active throughout that whole area. Since the metal trash and the corner survey rods are iron, I was not able to use the detector’s discriminator feature very well. The soil in my area consists of red clay due to the high iron content of the soil. I was surprised that the iron in the soil does not seem to effect the sensitivity. The three other corner rods were about 8 inches deep and easy to find. After finally getting a survey company to find my fourth lot marker rod I started to ‘Play’ with the MT-XR. The survey company came with their expensive magnetometers and other special devices but after two hours they still could not find the fourth rod so they used the optics and GPS to find it. And yes, they dug down through the nails, screws and other metal trash and there was the metal corner marker for the lot. So metal pieces in the soil has a lot to do with the success of using metal detector. When treasure hunting I guess that’s a good thing. The MT-XR has a water proof lower unit that will allow you to search in shallow water. I put coins in a bucket with six inches of water and the MT-XR detected them with ease. I put a couple of silver coins on the ground and some regular coins and the MT-XR sounds were very different, for each type of metal. Very useful. The metal discrimination feature has the ability to distinguish between different types of metals and is very useful if you are looking for precious metals (coins, jewelry, etc…). I have not had any time to do that as of yet. I did take it to a local lake and used it in the water along the shore and found fishing hooks, a couple of fishing rod guides from the tips of fishing rods and some metal leader. This was all in a few inches of water. There is no beach at this lake so I did not find any jewelry. I purchased this unit for one job, to find a corner marker. I have now found a new hobby. I will update my review as I get out and find new things to find, with it.

I purchased several Dr. Ötek products around New Year's Day 2020 with my Christmas stash of Amazon gift cards: an MT-XR detector, an M-6 pinpointer, a digger tool, and a waterproof bag. All of these Dr. Ötek products are of very nice, high quality and even better than I expected after reading many favorable reviews that noted good material and build quality. I would also add good design and obvious thought given to ease of assembly, good ergonomics, and ease of use. Very well done with this MT-XR detector and also the other Dr. Ötek products mentioned. For several years, I have been on the sidelines researching metal detecting as a possible pastime and hobby for leisure and fun in my retirement. Now, I am diving in or digging in with my older brother, also retired and looking for fun activities that get us moving and into the great outdoors more often. This MT-XR detector may not be the Rolls Royce of detectors, but it is truly very good and it will definitely give you many, many hours of cheap and adventurous fun, especially if like me, you want to do some peaceful detecting and digging for that occasional "treasure" find in solitude or with a friend or family partner to comb over an old place for some unexpected finds and adventure that will not cost you a small fortune. Accuracy in this price range and in even higher price ranges is sometimes hit or miss. The MT-XR has taken me to good and clear targets from 2 to 4 inches in the first day when testing it in our backyard. I must stress at this point that the pinpointer function in the detector is truly an excellent feature, and helped me a great deal in deciding whether it might be worth digging on a signal or not. However, combining the detector pinpointer with the great functions of the M-6 pinpointer to examine my holes dug and removed dirt, and alternating with the detector to confirm that I had dug the only buried source of the signal, the digging effort was made twice as fun and my confidence level twice as high. So, I highly recommend that you also get an excellent M-6 pinpointer or another high quality pinpointer to use along with this detector. And while I am at it and plugging or vouching for Dr. Ötek gear, I also recommend that you get an excellent digger tool like the Dr. Ötek, a Lesche, or other good, well-made and sturdy digger. Sincerely, you cannot go wrong with the Dr. Ötek. As a big guy, I would have to use some serious effort to bend or break it, but why would I try to? Sort of like seeing if I can bend my smartphone in half. Common sense dictates that everything has its eventual failure points. I want it to really last, and I think it will, if I take good care of it like any tool. Within the first minute after I started up the new detector on all-metal and maximum sensitivity, in our backyard I found a 1982 penney (copper vs. zinc also in that year) at 2 inches. About 10 minutes later, I found a copper 1971 penney, also at 2 inches. I picked up many more signals (30+) indicating coins and possible silver to depths of 8 inches and deeper (probably 10 inches max). I may go after them later, but did not want to irritate my wife with too many holes and a totally dug up yard. I also ventured to our front yard to test various discrimination settings. Again, many indications of silver coins (quarters and dimes?) deeper than 6 to 8 inches. I dug up shallower items, including a pull tab, a couple of small aluminum curtain brackets, a sawed off threaded 1/4 inch section of a small bolt, and a booger of an iron nail about 3 and 1/2 inches long. So, while I cannot yet prove there are silver coins at least on some of those deeper signals, I am confident that some are there a little deeper, as the MT-XR indicates. Again, metal detecting is sometimes hit or miss, but I believe this MT-XR is capable of getting you to many targets up to 8 or 10 inches that will be fun to dig up to identify and add to your collection. I look forward to finding some buried "treasure" with my brother and grandchildren. Stressing again, this thing can bring a lot of leisurely fun in the great outdoors either solo or with someone else to share the fun, adventurous toil, and nice fresh air. I hope you find this helpful! Cheers!

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.

This has been such a fun activity to do while on vacation. It’s very user friendly so that beginners and even children can use it. The size of the pole adjusts for different heights and is very sturdy. The battery life holds up well and the different functions of this metal detector make it well worth its money.

First, let me say that I have no previous experience with metal detectors. My new Dr.Otek MT-XR metal detector was delivered earlier today. It was very well packaged and arrived in perfect, undamaged condition. After unpacking it, I scanned through the owner's manual, quickly, and then assembled it. Assembly was dead simple and took less than ten minutes. Very easy. Then, I read the part of the manual dealing with operating the metal detector, which was clear and easy to understand. I then took the detector outside. I live on a dirt road in a rural area. I started sweeping the detector over the ground and started getting signals right away. After less than ten minutes of "learning", I decreased the sensitivity, a little bit and started searching. From what I've read, no metal detector is 100% correct, all the time, in the visual and audio indications that are given for type of metal / object and depth it is seeing. That said, I found the MT-XR to be pretty accurate. And, this is where the "learning process" comes in. Once you get familiar with the detector's responses and tones and the manner in which they occur, it really is accurate. Attached is a photo of 16 "treasures" that I dug up in about 45 minutes, including the learning curve time. The pinpoint mode is fairly accurate and narrows down the location of items pretty well. Not as good as a small, handheld pinpointer, I think, but pretty good and helpful. I'll probably eventually buy a pinpointer to use with the MT-XR. I'm really impressed with and happy that I bought the MT-XR. I'm going to spend a little more time honing my skills with the detector, and then I'll take it to some old collapsed cabins, in the mountains, that were associated with some really old, abandoned mines. Hopefully, I'll find some real "treasures", then. For the $100 price range, of the MT-XR, I feel that it's a very good metal detector. I know that there are plenty of more expensive metal detectors out there, some up into the four figure range. Are they better? For the much higher prices, I hope they are. On the other hand, often times better is subjective and / or niche usage based. Anyway, from what I've seen, so far, I'm sure that the MT-XR will be great, for my intended use and I'm really looking forward to putting it to use out in the real world. If you've been wanting to get a metal detector and try your hand at the hobby, I feel that the MT-XR is a great choice. Happy hunting!

Works great so far had out a few times in old homesteads back in the day. No gold or anything like that but found horse shoes and bullet cases and stuff like that up to 10” down. Does take a bit getting used to but the one for nails works great at letting you know the trash when used to it. I never used one before and so far I’m happy with this as my first one along with the Dr Otek hand wand. The hand wand is for sure one to have along with this detector. Used in water and works great. The pin point feature is nice but not sure it’s me or the unit but like after I use pin point if I lift it up when setting the unit down it keeps beeping not an issue for me at all I just switch back to normal mode and it’s totally fine. Don’t see how if one is looking can go wrong with this unit for the price before one gets one more expensive. I don’t see myself getting one anytime soon because I’m happy with this and the price. Showed up fast and undamaged unlike some of my boxes I get look like they went through a soccer war zone. This was packed nicely and easy to put together along with lightweight still on fist battery it came with and used quite a bit so far but have my rechargeable ones on standby for when it’s needed. Hope this helps I’m not a technical expert or anything like that just guy looking to kill some time here and there when out on the old ranch and out fishing I’ll pack it with me and kinda fun seeing what’s hidden under the dirt. Give it time and you’ll get the hang of it…oh the Instructions were perfect to help get ya on your way. I never used one like I said and reading those for pointers were helpful for me. :) P.S. the headphones it comes with fit nicely and the sound quality is decent along with lightweight when I do use them. Happy hunting!!

Well jury’s still out on this one. Played around with it, the results were questionable. There is no ground balance on the unit and it did appear to have difficulty detecting different metals when I tested it. The Garrett detector I have seems to work better than this unit but we’ll see.

I followed the introduction of the Dr. Otek MT-XR for months and was impressed by over 800 ratings reviews on Amazon ALL 4 and 5 star. Well I ordered two, and when I opened them I was not surprised about the rave reviews. The attention to detail to start with. VERY well packaged and secured, outstanding documentation in their enclosed manual, even a advisory tag attached to the head unit advising of the proper cable wind and a note about indoor use, for those who don't read instructions, LOL. The fit and quality was not befitting such a modest price, in fact I have detectors costing 3-5X'xs the MT-XR which are not a finely finished or put together. After easy assembly it was time to see if the true test Performance, was as good as it looks. BETTER, in fact I am beyond amazement how this company can afford to offer all the features--all of which work flawlessly-- at the price. I believe my answer is this is currently a "loss Leader" to enter the market, because based on performance alone this is easy a $250-350 dollar detector. So let me tell you what I like, and any grumps I might have. Its light, and well balanced and if you ever owned a detector you know that alone is worth its weight in gold. The intuitive interface is in large scale making it easy on the eyes, and is backlit for low light , night hunting. It also has a volume control with a high output speaker that can be heard over road noise or crashing waves at the beach. While it scales to 8 inches in depth I have found quarters in sand over a foot deep. This uses VDI scale for identifying what exactly is in the ground, and you have 5 different operating modes which will cover all your hunting needs. The pin point function is very good, with a very different sound which helps target exactly where the item is. Sensitivity adjustment has a wide scale and the feature I love the most is, I can teach it a target I want to find, and REJECT everything else. I put my wife's gold ring in for a scan, select that search only and I can look for just one type of target. this isn't even available on some $400 units out there. Any objections? The velcro strap on the arm bracer could be a bit longer for some forearms like mine. Other than that this is a 100% Recommendation by me, you should buy NOW before the introduction ends and they start charging what this is really worth.