It's rather difficult to take Mr Paxton's opinions seriously when he leads off his description of the Axiom with this overblown nonsense:
"A complete from the ground up redesign of pure pulse induction technology in a package unlike anything that had ever been seen before in the gold prospecting niche of our hobby. Gone were the bulky rigs that required harnesses to swing them and car-size batteries to supply power. No more annoying knobs and confusing settings. What Garrett delivered was a genuinely new and yes, I’m going to say it, exciting metal detector. The first pictures of the Axiom looked like something out of the space age."
I agree that the Axiom looks great, but his claim that it's, "a complete ground up redesign of pure pulse induction technology in a package unlike anything that had ever been seen before in the gold prospecting niche of our hobby", is simply untrue. Has Mr Paxton never seen Garrett's own decade-old ATX or Minelab's SDC and GPX6000? It certainly seems that way when he goes on to say, "Gone were the bulky rigs that required harnesses to swing them and car-size batteries to supply power. No more annoying knobs and confusing settings".