Teknetics Eurotek Pro

The Eurotek Pro is one of the better-value first detectors on the market, offering adjustable ground balance and a numeric target ID at a price where most machines give you neither. Ground balance is the setting that matters most once you leave easy soil, and having it here means the detector keeps working properly on mineralized ground instead of falsing. Light, simple and capable enough that plenty of people keep using one long after they could afford to upgrade.