First On-The-Water Test Of All 3 Live Sonars | Humminbird Mega Live, Active Target, Garmin Livescope
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- Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2021
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Probably the most comprehensive review I have seen on these products. I will give you a score of 10/10. Thanks for all the time you and Bass Tank spent in putting this together.
Great test thank you !!!!
I think you did a wonderful job as I was torn on which unit to get thank you very much for your time and effort.
Great job!! We all love direct comparisons...I’m surprised more RUclipsrs don’t do more of them. Keep up the good work.
Awesome comparison of these three units! The proof is in the images! Greatly appreciate all that was involved in making this video! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! Always learn a ton from your vids! Good fish'in brother.
Excellent video. Very comprehensive and great examples. Really great to see a video like this with such direct visual comparison's. Makes it easier to see what's happening and how the units perform. Thanks. Keep the videos going. 👍
One of the best comparison videos that I have seen. I've been looking to upgrade my electronics for several months and this has definitely helped me select what I need. Thank You
Great review !! I've come to expect nothing less from you. Always clear detailed information.
Thanks for this superbly done experiment. I have Garmin Livescope and your study reinforces my decision. Keep the great videos coming!!!
Very nice review & analysis! As someone who is VERY new to using fish/depth finders, I really appreciate all the images, video clips, & explanation you put into this.
Best comprehensive comparison.... many thanks, always appreciate your commitment and content quality.
Great breakdown on these 3 units! Thanks for your hard work doing these comparisons cause for a weekend warrior it would be impossible to to obtain the info to have provided in this video. Keep up the good work🎣🎣🎣
Strong work Jonny. Well done as always. You provide very thorough and detailed information. Thank you!
I'd like to see you revisit this test now comparing the latest improvements to transducers and updates to see how they have changed.
Target lock actually gives a person a reason to use mega live over other options now because the image is not going to make people choose it over the other options.
Great review! I fished with a buddy who had Lowrance. I was able to take my knowledge from Garmin setup and tweak his unit to get a much better image. It was difficult to track our baits past 50feet. Garmin for the win!
Johnny thanks and thanks to every body who helped best test ever nailed it guys should go viral in bass world I own livescope 3 years now
EXCELLENT, HONEST COMPARISON!!! Grateful for the time and the detailed breakdown with no bias. THANK YOU!! I’d most likely go with the Garmin. The background noise almost gives it an “advantage” as it looks like a natural contrast between water and object. Again, thank you!!
Great comparison. I am somewhat of a beginner and you helped me understand and decide on which manf I will go with! Thank you so much!
Great video! I’ve been looking for a video like this for a while. You answers all of my questions! Thanks
Thanks for an exciting great comparative test!!
Thanks for all your time and work!
Yes ..!! Redo this test next year!!
Who of us has the opportunity to compare expensive finders! You do us all an incredible service.
Best compison ever!
Thanks
just jim
Best review/test/experience I've ever seen you do.
Thank you for this video, it is so helpful to those wanting to upgrade sonar units
Great job Jonny. This was a heck of a lot of work. I'm really educated on these units...
Awesome job Johnny. 18 people fish with cane poles and trot lines. Seriously if I still worked in a marine section of a store, I would just loop this video all day.
thanks for the time you spent on this review! definitely the best channel on you tube!
I love your videos you are so detailed and it helped my fishing tremendously. I wish you would show more fish finders with grass or mukey bottom. Lot of the lakes in Northern Ohio are very seaweed/lily pad lakes
Good video! I agree with you about the Garmin. Used it for the last year and it has not disappointed.
I have been set on getting the new Humminbird Mega Live for a year now, but saw this video about five days ago. Been giving it some real thought, then some more thought, and even some more thought. I have decided to go with the Garmin Livescope system with an additional third screen on the bow. When I told my local marina about my decision they totally understood and say many others are doing the exact same thing. Hmmm...... I guess I will have three humminbird Solix 12s and one Garmin unit on my boat now. Happy so support as many different manufacturers as possible!
I’ve been waiting for someone to do I true side by side. Great job!!
Excellent comparisons. I agree with your assessment. Methodical, fair, and logical trials.
Great job with all the detailed comparisons, info and videos. Thanks.
I got to say your test was great, it clearly made my decision for my new tournament boat, I probably will set up the boat completely with Garmin, so once again thank you for that test and I'll be looking forward to more tests that you're going to do
Always great info. Thanks so much for putting this all together.
Extremely helpful, has to be the best video made that I've found out there.
Thanks for the clarity between the three live scopes. Now I can make a choice....
Nice Job and thank you. I have ran the Garmin for 2 years and really have caught fish every time out that I would not have been able to. I run all Humminbird 12s and I will keep my Garmin as well. All three brands are amazing in different things and thats what keeps them in the market.
Thank you for putting this together, very nice and informative testing
Many thanks. It`s the best test I have seen up to now. I´m using Garmin livescope on a GPS-Map 1223 xsv. By using this screen I have a tip: On this screen ist seems that the colors are a third possibility to adjust. Try ist out! Depending on your target, fishoutline in shallow water (-5m), definition of a tree in middle depth (-8m) or identification of size of the fish in deeper water (-14m), change the clours an you will see a difference! All the best from Hamburg in Germany.
Amazing job Jonny and the Bass Tank!! Thanks
Great Test, I have the Garmin and you are right on the settings. it's a great unit. Thanks for video and explaining all the test.
Best comparative review I’ve seen so far. Garmin looked the best. I agreed with the scoring
Very informative testing here. Thank you for your hard work!
This is an awesome video. Im planning on buying a new boat and need to know as much as possible about these units. You did an awesome job comparing these units. Thanks for the great info.
Excellent overview and comparison of the three systems!
Great video. I am so glad the Garmin Panoptix Livescope is the best one of the 3. Because the Garmin is the one I have. I used to have Lowrance then Humminbird and now have 2 - Garmin Echomap UHD units with GT-56 and LS-10 Livescope System. One unit and the console and the other at the bow. I am still a beginner since it’s been about a month since I have the Livescope system. I like the rusted steel and blue color on the screens. I sometimes run the rusted steel on the console and the blue on the bow. I am leaning more towards the rusted steel color since it makes fish pop. Thanks again for a well done instructional video.
Really appreciate your time you put into this. The way you break down everything is spot on. Thanks so much 🙏
Outstanding! Very well done. Thanks for the great content.
you are very smart testing person I have seen. Great job
Love my Livescope and my mega side/ down imaging.
Great video. Thrilled Garmin stood out ( what I use ). I would have thought Lowrance and Humminbird would have been alot better than Garmin. Especially with Garmin being out for years giving Lowrance and Humminbird alot of info to build from. Thanks for your time and all the info you share with us..
Honestly man Lowrance and garmin are about the same
Garmin has the IP, the others are working around patents that Garmin invented and has exclusive rights to
Truly some of the best educational material on you tube.
While Garmin requires you t adjust some settings, its a 2 sec adjustment on the screen. Looked to me that the gain was too high in this comparison for the Garmin.
Fantastic Johnny! I purchased the garmen and love...I can't wait to follow up on your educational how to videos.
Garmen? You must mean Garmin...
Thanks Jonny, great comparison. Come back to NC soon. Pat
Thank you. Exactly what we are looking for. Good video.
I think the scores are a fair look at the 3 sonars. I have the AT by Lowrance and after watching this comparison, I’m glad I chose the active target. It also made it easy because my other displays are Lowrance.
Thank you for your time and knowledge!
I use Garmin LiveScope and have been very happy with unit.
Excellent video, thank you for putting this out.
one nice setting the humminbird has is the ability to trails on a moving target. This setting really helps for tracking the lure or a Bass.The other two units I do not believe have that. Good review
You can do trails with Garmin. Been that way since the original panoptix. Just an FYI, trails are nice at times.
Great video, not surprised about the outcome. Have to remember this is just a tool and other factors like the sonar unit for side and down imaging, mapping, ability to map, cost, portability to use for ice fishing and so on also factor in when deciding on a live sonar but this result in a vacuum makes sense. Landscape/perspective/down mode comparison would have been nice also.
As someone who works on a vessel with multiple radars, dealing with other vessels with multiple radars, as soon as you said uou were gonna run 3 transducers next to eachother at the same time, I knew you were in for a bunch of sonar returns from different waves crashing into eachother. Easy to figure out, simple to use, and takes 2 seconds to mess with
Great review, comprehensive details. I think the comparison ratings were spot on but in my opinion the values were a bit higher than I would give. For the price of these units I would expect more from them in each criterion that you rated. Great job as always. You consistently have one of the most informative channels.
Excellent video. Thanks for your hard work!
Great job... I have the Garmin. Appreciate you as a resource!
Great job. Really helpful analysis. Thank you!
Excellent video, great work. I’ll probably end up with Hbird since I’m running those on my boat. From my understanding HB has a plug and plus on most of their newer units, really appreciate the comparisons!
Very generous scores for the two off brand livescopes. A lot of those cons on the two units are a deal breaker when compared to the livescope. If livescope didn’t exist, the other two units would be relevant. We must demand better performance from these companies by not buying these sonars until they improve the product to compete with livescope. Great video Johnny. Super content!
As always Jonny … great video!!!
Thank you, answered a lot of questions, gave better answers than bass pro shop
great job man, lots of hard work really appreciate
Really good job. Very thorough and informative. I may get forward facing sonar but may wait for another new generation of models to come out. Im sure, like everything else.. they will ( slowly ) improve to drive sales on new ones.
Thanks very helpful to choose a unit!
Best review I’ve seen on all three !
Excellent video! Thanks for doing the work
I've been waiting for this video!!!!!!
Fantastic review and thank you for doing all this work. Just this past year I built out a new boat based on Humminbird one network with downriggers, Ulterra motor with GPS and SI+DI, rear HB sonar for second SI+DI to the console, and third SI/DI sonar for my Garmin 95SV located at the rear of the boat . I am about to make a decision regarding forward-looking sonar solutions and was hoping to use HB's product. It appears that I might be better off using the Garmin 95SV upfront with a Livescope and rounding it out with HB 360. Thanks again for your insights, you have given me lots to consider.
Thank you. This was an eye(s) opener gor me. I just purchased two Helix 7 3G with GPS (DI&SI units). I know I'm going to have to learn how to operate them in order to get the most of them. But I thank you for the information in the video. Looking forward to any other information on or about electronic for boats.
Great job Johnny keep up the good work
Great work ! Very useful !
Excellent job, as usual, Jonny
Great breakdown of key points on this review. I wish you had chosen a crankbait or something that you constantly reel in to show the bait tracking ability. Might have been easier to follow. All-in-all, best comparison review out there, which is par for the course. Keep up the great work! I'm learning so much.
Just bought Garmin hoping it works great love the content thanks
Great Job. I greatly appreciate the side-by-side comparisons. Personally, I think all three brands have a long way to go to live up to their advertising hype. I would have given each unit a score of 3-4 point LOWER than you did for each test. I'll save my money and wait for product improvements. Thanks again! Very informative!
Pretty impressive video!! Well done!
Great work Johnny.
Great Review !! Thank you for sharing !
I enjoyed your comparison of the three units. As for choice, I was faced with this decision when I decided to go with FFS. Since I already had lowrance units on my boat, I found I was more drawn to the live Target. One of my main reasons was that I was already familiar with lowrance settings and controls. Hummingbird has always seemed a bit more complicated for me. As for Garmin, I thought right from the beginning that their images were as good if not slightly best. But I guess I could not get past the grainyness. So I purchased the Live Target and gave been pleased. Like any new piece of equipment or Toy, the more you use it and work with it, the more comfortable you become. Had I seen this video of your comparison, I might have gone with the Garmin. But there again, familiarity and ease of operation of the lowrance was a big deciding factor. I thought this comparrison video was very well done, and I appreciate the time and effort it took to put together.
Look forward to future videos.
Thank you.
I originally was going to stick with my ‘Birds but another RUclipsr did a comparison with Lowrance that made me pause. You’ve confirmed my decision to go back to Garmin.
Excellent work. Thanks!!!!
Excellent video. It just shows how much better the livescope is against the other two. There is no comparison.
I also leaned I should try the basic color palette of the livescope in weeds. I have been using the blue palette but it’s not the greatest in the weeds.
Great comparison and information provided.
HAD TO SHARE THIS ONE!!!!!...THANKS FOR THIS...THUMBS-UP!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent video!! Thanks Garmin seems to be the best.
Matt stefan, sent me to check you out. Now I have subscribed thank you Matt you're right he's a good guy!
Ay....time to do the do the test again. Everyone is saying the new live update has made a big difference.
Good Stuff! I would reccommend Trying the Active Target on a HDS Live unit vs the Elite FS. I run the AT on the HDS Live and it Looks quite a bit better. Tons of Variables but I would reccommend giving it a shot!
Great job with this video!
This has helped me out quite a bit. I don't have a system yet because of pricing, even though Amazon has a 4 payment plan. When I do get one, it will be a Garmin Live Scope. I'm a Garmin guy.
Nice, thanks for posting!
Great video Johnny!
Great info as always Jonny. The wife just got me a brand new Ghost for Christmas so I’m about to have full active target and awaken my inner offshore demons.
Thanks for the great review, most of us do not have a way to compare these three imaging devices at the same time like you did here. I totally agree with your ratings and was really hoping the humminbird (since my boat is equipped with birds) would have been better like the Garmin but it is clearly not there yet and not worth the money. You just clearly demonstrated that all three of these can be improved but the best out there right now is the Garmin. Just as all electronics, as soon as you invest in one, the next one makes yours obsolete quickly. I think I will hold out for now since the Bass pro near me in St. Louis has nothing in stock at this time anyway and see what happens when our choices improve. Again, thanks for the great review...