White’s MXT All Pro Review

A do-everything machine that actually earned the reputation

Plenty of detectors get called all-rounders. The MXT is one of the few the community genuinely means it about. The recurring theme across years of owner reviews is that it does coin hunting, relic hunting, jewellery and gold prospecting, and it does all of them well rather than being brilliant at one and hopeless at the rest. That is a rare thing, and it is the main reason the MXT built such a devoted following and held its value for so long.

The clever part is how White’s organised it. The All Pro gives you three separate programs, Coin and Jewelry, Relic, and Prospecting, and each one changes not just the settings but the whole way the machine talks to you: different target responses, different information on the screen, different audio. In plain terms you are not fiddling with a dozen settings when you move from a coin field to a relic site to a gold stream. You flick to the program built for that job. For a machine of its era that was a genuinely smart bit of design, and owners still rate it.

The gold story that made its name

Here is where the MXT earns its legend. It runs at 14 kHz, a nicely balanced frequency for a single-frequency machine, high enough to wake up on small gold and gold jewellery, not so high that it goes deaf on coins. The prospecting reputation is not marketing either. The community talks about serious gold coming out of places like Ganes Creek in Alaska on MXTs, with individual owners reporting pounds of gold recovered from tailing piles over time. That is not something you can say about many general-purpose detectors.

The one honest caveat the prospecting crowd adds is worth passing on. The MXT is a superb all-rounder that can absolutely be used for gold with the right coil, but if gold is your only aim, some long-term users would point you at a dedicated machine like White’s own GMT or a GB Pro instead. As a one-machine-does-it-all that happens to be very good at gold, though, it is hard to beat.

The Prospecting mode trick, and why Iron Grunt matters

One feature owners single out is Iron Grunt in the Prospecting program. When the machine reckons a target has a high probability of being iron, it tells you with a distinct low grunt. Why does that matter out in the field? On iron-infested ground, whether that is an old relic site carpeted in nails or a gold patch littered with rubbish, the thing that wastes your day is digging iron. A clear, trustworthy iron signal that lets you leave the junk in the ground and dig the maybes is exactly what saves your back and your time. Owners who learn to trust the Grunt tend to swear by it.

The gripes that come up again and again

No detector is all roses, and the MXT has a consistent set of complaints. The first, when it was current, was simply the price. It was never a cheap machine, and some felt the performance, brilliant as it was, should have cost less. The second is the batteries. It runs on eight AA cells at a time when much of the industry had moved to four or even two, which adds weight up front and means more cells to feed. Several owners find it a touch nose-heavy for that reason, and on a long session weight tells.

The other two gripes are about the audio and target ID. There is no three or four-tone ID option, which some coin hunters miss, and there is no iron audio volume control to soften the amount of iron chatter you hear. None of these are dealbreakers, and the machine’s fans will tell you the performance more than makes up for them, but they are the honest limitations and you should know them before buying.

Buying one in 2026

The elephant in the room is the same as with any White’s now. The company closed in 2020, Garrett bought the brand, and the factory shut, so the MXT is discontinued and everything on the used market is out of warranty with thinning parts support. That is the big thing to weigh. The flip side is that the MXT’s reputation for toughness means a well-kept one can still give years of service, and there are a lot of loyal owners keeping them going.

If I were buying one used, I would confirm it is actually the All Pro and not an earlier MXT or MXT Pro, because the names get muddled in listings and the programs differ. I would open the battery pod and check for corrosion, since eight cells left in a damp shed do damage, I would flick every toggle and check the VDI numbers stay stable on a known target, and I would look hard at the coil for cracks. A spare coil or two is worth having while White’s coils are still floating around secondhand, because new stock is drying up.

Who it suits, and who should look elsewhere

I would happily point a relic hunter or an all-round detectorist towards a good-condition MXT, especially anyone who wants one machine to cover coins, relics and a bit of gold without owning three detectors. Prospectors who want a versatile machine rather than a single-purpose gold unit are well served too. It is a hands-on detector for someone who enjoys understanding their machine.

I would steer away a complete beginner who wants the simplest possible start, anyone who needs to hunt in water, since the control box is not waterproof, and anyone set on modern simultaneous multi-frequency for beach work. For that last group a current Equinox, Deus II or Nokta Legend gives you multi-frequency, full waterproofing and a living manufacturer behind you.

This is a community summary rather than my own field diary, so if you have owned an MXT and see it differently, I would genuinely like to hear from you through the contact page.