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What It Is and Why It Still Matters The XP Deus 1 is a selectable-frequency, fully wireless metal-detecting platform built around an unusual architecture: the search coil contains the detection electronics and processes the signal at source, while the remote control and compatible headphones communicate with it by digital radio. That makes the detector materially different from conventional machines in which the coil is connected to the control box by cable. XP’s current docu

The XP Deus II is a wireless, simultaneous multi-frequency metal detector built around XP’s FMF platform, but describing it simply as a multi-frequency successor to the original DEUS understates how configurable the system has become. At its core, the DEUS II combines a wireless coil, remote control and compatible headphones with 12 factory programmes, 12 user-programme slots, multiple audio systems, extensive ground and discrimination controls and the option to operate in ei

The XP Icon occupies an interesting position in XP’s detector range. It uses the company’s FMF simultaneous multi-frequency platform, works with established XP wireless hardware and DEUS II FMF coils, and retains the exceptionally light telescopic format for which XP has become known. Yet it deliberately offers fewer controls than the DEUS II. That distinction matters. In this XP Icon review we'll dive into the detail to give you as rounded an overview as possible, collated f