Tarsacci MDT 8000 Metal Detector

[ivconic]

I believe the Tarsacci is made in the US. The owner/engineer of the company is Dimitar Gargov who lives in California and used to work for First Texas Products. He designed the CoinStrike and GoldStrike models.

No one disputes that. But his name is also Bulgarian.
Bulgaria has a lot of good engineers in the field of metal detectors, there is no doubt about that.

[ivconic]

Okay, the story is unfolding slowly.
If you automatically translate this page to English: https://www.thaispygadget.com/articl...B9%89%E0%B8%B2

"...Dimitar Gargov is a Bulgarian who was educated and raised in the United States.
He is considered a genius in the world of metal detectors.
He worked with Fisher from 2000 to 2007 and owns a patent for processing metal search results into numbers on the Fisher machine screen.
Dimitar Gargov currently has his own metal detector manufacturing plant in the United States.
It will be a metal detector in the Military Standard grade (a grade of strength and durability in the same grade as military equipment), including the TARSACCI MDT-8000 metal detector that we are talking about now..."

When you mentioned "Coinstrike" and "Goldstrike" I have to admit I was a bit confused!?
What does anyone have to do with those models, when it has long been known that all those models are based on a platform developed by Dave Johnson!?
But the excerpt from the link above gives the answer: Dimitar patented and invented only the visual representation for those machines.
Graphical VDI with "wheels" and "scales", so to say.
Ok, fine job, fair enough.


But this what later come is pretty bold, isn't it:

" ...One morning in June 2021, Professor Papa read a post written by Thomas J. Dankowski. The content of the post was about new technology of metal detectors, which is considered a breakthrough and is expected to be a game changer for the current metal detector industry. In this post, there were people in the metal detector industry who responded and talked about it, which was about 82 pages long. Professor Papa started searching for information and finally found the owner of this technology. His name was Dimitar Gargov and he sent an email to talk. From the conversation between Dimitar Gargov and Professor Papa, it was concluded that Dimitar Gargov never compared his machine with other brands or brands and never advertised his machine in the media. But he sold the machine and sold it more and more. Without delay, the shop quickly ordered 1 unit and let our treasure hunter friends in our network try it out. Everyone gave the same answer that this machine has a better system, better depth, and is quieter than the Minelab Equinox Series..."



I apologize for the reaction... but this is very funny from my position.
Coincidentally, my closest co-worker has an Equinox 800 and recently a Manticore.
I have a Vanquish 340. And occasionally I have a CTX3030 on hand.
I haven't heard anything bolder in a long time!

[Carl-NC]

Dimitar designed the Coinstrike & Goldstrike, not David. David was not employed with Fisher at the time.
The Tarsacci has a really good reputation in certain places, such as salt water. It has drawbacks, like a poor audio response, but a newly released version supposedly addresses the drawbacks.

[JCR]

I have used the original Tarsacci MDT 8000 extensively in high Maghemite "red dirt" relic & coin hunting. It is capable of surprising performance in these conditions. The latest top tier Simultaneous Multifrequency detectors approach this level of raw performance and have the advantage of better audio and general flexibility in their settings. The "new" DX version of Tarsacci supposedly addresses some of these short comings. Still, the original MDT 8000 always amazes me with what it will find on hard hunted sites{by me) every time I use it. It is a different type of animal for sure.

[Altra]

A test between MDT 8000, Deus 2 and Manticore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa5EE49Vufc

[ivconic]

David set up the platform on which Fisher later built many "models".
In the absence of inventiveness, "new" models with different and more "bells&whistles" are always made on the same platform.
Look, I wasn't present there, I can't know what and how.
But based on the detectors I got my hands on, based on what I saw under the hood; I can draw conclusions.
I haven't had a chance to open Goldstrike. Coinstrike I did. Several times. You can clearly see David's "signature" in the design of that detector.
I didn't spend 40 years in this business twiddling my thumbs.
...
JCR I have no problem with your experience, that's all relevant what you wrote.
...
Altra... tests like that always give me a good laugh!
BTW the behavior of the Tarsacci detector on video, especially in mixed mode; reminds me irresistibly of AKA Signum MFD.
If you don't see a bunch of irregularities in the testing of those detectors... well... I can't help you there!
Our colleague Nupi did all this many years before, check out the series of videos:

https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscri...xyxEeTsuI8cVhg

[Carl-NC]

The 'Strike designs are quite different than David's designs. They used a micro which David shunned, and the analog designs were very different. When FTP bought out Fisher I'm told David did not get along with Dimitar and did not like the Strike designs so Dimitar left. He then created the Tarsacci, and I'm told he offered it to FTP and was turned down, so he made it himself. The Tarsacci is a time-domain detector, very different than the usual way of doing VLF.

[pustareka]

Q. Wang, H. Zhu, Z. Chai, Z. Cui, and Y.Wang, “Analysis of VLF Wave Field Components and Characteristics Based on Finite Element Time-Domain Method,” Journal of Sensors, vol. 2023.

Qile Wang ,1 Hanhao Zhu ,1,2 Zhigang Chai,3 Zhiqiang Cui,3 and Yafen Wang4
1. Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, China
2. Donghai Laboratory, Zhoushan, Zhejiang 316021, China
3. School of Naval Architecture and Maritime, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, China
4. Unit 91977 of the People’s Liberation Army, Beijing 150001, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Hanhao Zhu; [email protected]

Wang - Analysis of VLF Wave Field Components and FEM method.pdf

[tragac]

I don’t understand why it is always necessary to buy a completely new detector instead of just updating the existing one (if the goal is to sell more units, this approach might even have the opposite effect). Also, if the detector is so advanced and superior, why does even the latest version not come with wireless headphones—when this is standard even with many cheaper models? Furthermore, why is there no improved shaft like the new models from other well-known brands, and maybe it would be useful to add a “gоdograph” function (I think it’s called that on AKA detectors—they have it, as well as Deus and Manticore)?

[ivconic]

Now that we know a few more details; it will be interesting to test that detector.
So far, I don't know anyone who has that detector nearby.
Now I'm even more sorry that I didn't have the conditions (bad weather) to examine AKA Signum in more detail.
Because it seems to me that there are many similarities.

[tragac]

Now that we know a few more details; it will be interesting to test that detector.
So far, I don't know anyone who has that detector nearby.
Now I'm even more sorry that I didn't have the conditions (bad weather) to examine AKA Signum in more detail.
Because it seems to me that there are many similarities.

"Because it seems to me that there are many similarities."

I was thinking the same thing; also, the sound sounds very similar.

[tragac]

The tarsacci website is back up and running and now there are two new models instead of one.