I haven't had any experience with it, but it certainly comes with an excellent lineage. The Jeff Foster designed circuitry that evolved the GMT and M6 into the MXT still remains an awesome combination.
The advertised price point ($599) is justified only by the fact that it comes with the best coil that White's ever made, the 6 X 9 DD Eclipse.
My short answer is Yes.
My long answer is a qualified Yes. In that, it is a dumbed down MXT. I'll ramble a bit here, but please consider my ramblings come from a guy with much MXT experience who plays the MXT like a rock star plays his guitar. lol
Gone is the "
ual Control knob that is the key to Discrimination control and Saturation (mostly a gold search function).
Without it, I think a user might get tired of target ID's in the negative VDI range (iron).
The Threshold control also appears to be gone.
Advanced MXT users often hunt their machines on the edge of insanity to hear the deep really whispers Unlike Big Foot, whispers really exist, but require a balance of the threshold and the three-function Gain knob.
I haven't seen the operating frequency, but assume it's around 15kHz which gives excellent coin/jewelry response throughout the positive VDI spectrum.
The ground tracking algorithm of the GMT still seems to be intact. That is a critical feature that is necessary in your highly mineralized California soil.
That's my qualified Yes answer. It will, no doubt, be an excellent all-around coin & jewelry machine that will hunt right-outta-the-box.