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<blockquote data-quote="WTM" data-source="post: 4713038" data-attributes="member: 6230"><p>well thats basically what i said, lol. pick a unit for what you are willing to spend and fish on. each have their nuiances at their respective price points. as far as comparing units head to head, you have to compare them with the same size mfd mainly because up to a 9" unit they all use the same display resolution pretty much. the same goes for a 10" and 12" comparison because they have different resolutions, or pixels per square inch. raymarine kind of solves this by using different types of diplay panel between their different sized displays.</p><p></p><p>as far as xducer detail ability, its fore to aft beam width angle pretty much tells you what you need to know at what frequncy. the smaller the angle, the more details that xducer can produce. lowrance has the highest at 2.8/1.4, garmin gt52/cv52 (stock xducer) is in the middle at 2/1 and humminbird is somewhere around 1/.5. garmins gt40 and gt50 are 1.1/.7 and you can tell the difference on a head to head comparison as these two have definately better detail.</p><p></p><p>i will say, from an engineering perspective, how humminbird is able to accomplish those razor thin beamwidths with such a small xducer.</p><p>x</p><p>edit: looking at the helix 8 and 9, 2019 models, it looks like they upped the resolution to 1024x600, which makes sense and hope the other brands follow suit. if you have ever compared a 7" unit to a 9" unit of the same resolution, to me at least, the 7" images will appear to look a little better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WTM, post: 4713038, member: 6230"] well thats basically what i said, lol. pick a unit for what you are willing to spend and fish on. each have their nuiances at their respective price points. as far as comparing units head to head, you have to compare them with the same size mfd mainly because up to a 9” unit they all use the same display resolution pretty much. the same goes for a 10” and 12” comparison because they have different resolutions, or pixels per square inch. raymarine kind of solves this by using different types of diplay panel between their different sized displays. as far as xducer detail ability, its fore to aft beam width angle pretty much tells you what you need to know at what frequncy. the smaller the angle, the more details that xducer can produce. lowrance has the highest at 2.8/1.4, garmin gt52/cv52 (stock xducer) is in the middle at 2/1 and humminbird is somewhere around 1/.5. garmins gt40 and gt50 are 1.1/.7 and you can tell the difference on a head to head comparison as these two have definately better detail. i will say, from an engineering perspective, how humminbird is able to accomplish those razor thin beamwidths with such a small xducer. x edit: looking at the helix 8 and 9, 2019 models, it looks like they upped the resolution to 1024x600, which makes sense and hope the other brands follow suit. if you have ever compared a 7” unit to a 9” unit of the same resolution, to me at least, the 7” images will appear to look a little better. [/QUOTE]
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