Anybody who has been around the hobby for a while will know about the C.Scope 1220 concept. This brilliant detector design was first created by C.Scope engineers more than 20 years ago. Since then, the machine has been upgraded several times, providing more performance and more user friendly features at each model change.

The unique 1220 has become the firm favourite of truly professional detectorists all over Europe... and when the big finds hit the headlines just look how often the 1220 is the machine of choice. Now, the culmination of that success story is the CS1220R, a digitally controlled, extremely high performance, lightweight metal detector which will impress everyone, amateur and professional, whatever machine they are using now.

The reason why the 1220 is magic in skilled hands lies in the way the machine operates as an extension of the senses. Users of the 1220 report that they can read its signals and analyse what they see and hear to gain their own, highly accurate impression of what metal objects lie under the ground. A lot of detectors on the market today are so called 'MOTION' machines, simple to use but you have to keep the search head moving, quite quickly in some cases, to enable the electronics to work properly.

That motion aspect can encourage the user to work too fast and miss important signals altogether.

Another problem with conventional motion machines is that the electronics makes the discrimination decisions so that you get no signal at all on targets which the machine considers to be rubbish or, the machine will tell you, often wrongly, on the screen what it considers the target to be.

None of that with the 1220! it's a non-motion machine which favours a methodical, steady search technique where you can proceed at your own speed. That's the way to search an area of ground properly. And the 1220 audio dsicrimination feature allocates higher pitched sounds to valuable objects and lower pitched sounds to undesirable targets.

You search along at a steady pace. Every target gives you a signal but your ears tell you what to dig.

That's how the 1220 is the perfect marriage between detector and user.

The CS1220R uses bang up-to-date electronic signal processing to keep the machine in check, ensuring that top performance is obtained whatever the terrain.

More stability, more power, and of course that outstanding user-friendly operating concept are what makes the CS1220R well worth waiting for.

You might even say, the best just got even better!