In general, the TI units are faster in response to inputs. This is seen when quickly switching between sonar, downscan, chart, and split screens ruclips.net/user/postUgkxeAxH15LxhjGlg5-CRYqjTGTEH0tbY4vk recommend The Hook units will show some lag on button pushes and screen switching. The big ticket item though is maps. If you install a mapping card such as Navionics or the free C-Map Genesis which has a lot of map detail, then moving around the map with the cursor or when running down the lake can lag significantly on the Hook units, but is seamless with the TI units.
Great product. Second one I bought and no issues at all. Love it for the function and value.Great features too. It could track fish better but all in all its great for the money.
One fact if you start out using a product brand, you tend to stick with it. Reason is you get calibrated to the buttons, functions and layout, and it's just easier to use because your familiar with it. I'm a electronics DA and once I finally learn how to use a unit I don't want to change or (pull teeth). Lowrance units are just easier for me to use, so I stick with 'em... I'm positive that lowrance, hummingbird, and garmin make great products, it's just what you are used to..imo...
Betcha can't say the same thing now?! Garmin is now using full downscan ,but garmin is also whooping the pants off of livesight. Lowrance and johnson set back, resting on their laurels and Garmin came in and stole the show from them. And before the lawsuite, garmin WAS using downvu, which was a down facing element. Garmin was get to me from the beginning, but i am even more a happy garmin user. Lowrance on the other hand disapponted men with their software and interface... I bought an elite ti eariler in the year but i am glad i returned it and went all in with garmin.
@@jaimeastin Ya just confirmed on Garmin site. I haven't even hooked it up just been using the Live Scope so far. with 5 year old lowrance for side and down imge. Right now for an overall package Garmin can't be beat for freshwater anyway.
@@killintimeoutdoors I have a lot of garmins.. But for this video, two 93SV echomap plus with livescope and UHD transducer. Very Happy with Garmin over the years.
Cool. A guy in a Lowrance shirt selling the Lowrance products! Who would’ve guessed. All immaterial now post the law suit and G2 transducers. I own both L and G. Both are very good. G panoptics steal the show though!
I have Lowrance HDS and love it.My buddy heard all the GREAT thing about the new garmin so he bought one and replaced his Lowrance. After 3 months, he put his Lowrance back on but does use the garmin for mapping. Really dont see any difference in the mapping on both units. Guess its whatever one likes. I'l stick with Lowrance!
The fact they don't understand that two transducers with a triangle view pattern can be adjusted so that part of the scan area is vectored straight down goes to show they are just trying to make a marketing point...
Hi. I have a Elite ti2. I mainly use the downscan for finding 100ft wrecks and structures to dive and drop a shot line on. The wrecks just show as spikes with no detail. Can you do a video on how to have my downscan set up?
Já fiz vários testes Garmin, lowrance, humminbird, nunca mostrou o gráfico igual nós vídeos , acredito que são tradutores melhores , oque min fez devolver e ficar com o Garmin
"Call me crazy" as you say in the video, but none of this matters after June/18 because Garmin's LiveScope blows away any downscan technology and Lowrance's new LiveSight compares to THREE year old Gamin Panoptix technology ... and I'm a Lowrance guy - not a happy one though because I'm probably going to be selling all my Lowrance equipment and buying Garmins.
@@OrcaAngler my garmin 73CV UHD is nuts. You wouldn't believe the clarity it has. It is wayyyy better than my humminbird helix 7 even after messing with the settings. Most of the time I have to guess with the humminbird and go back over it with my garmin to see the fine detail. You are missing half of what is down there with my humminbird. And the panoptix is crazy good. I've only used it once on a friend's boat but I loved it. We found a school of spotted bass on the graph in open water. Pulled off a little and you could see them swimming 60 feet from us. It sure won't be long before I replace my Helix with a garmin SV
ill just help everyone out as much as i can... if u go lowrance dont get any of the hook series, lowrance replaced mine with the elite, soon ill tell everyone if its trash
I have 2 of the Garmin echo map 93sv units(the larger Garmin then shown in this video, but same transducer) and I'll agree, it's down imaging and side imaging are garbage. One advantage Garmin does have is it's maps and GPS are superior in my opinion. Chirp sonar is about the same but I will disclaim I have never seen a side by side of the sonars going over the same fish. My previous hummingbird 999 had much better side imaging then the Garmin and the Lowerance side imaging is even better. I'm now thinking about adding a Lowerance just for the down imaging and using my Garmin only for the maps and gps.
Where dig u get the fixture that u have the transducers mounted too? I have a tiller steer and no enough room between motor and the transom. That set up is exactly what i need.
none of brands work in salt water most of the times because the echo in salt and fresh water is different and when you get a echo that goes through fresh water then salt in a second with different temp and density and boat goes up and down because of waves you get overwhelmed cpu. only old fashion 200 2d works .. I see good picture in fresh water, i also good see good picture on down scan if there is calm water in salt
as much as i hate lowrance i will say this,,,, this is why there are different water settings on lowrance as to stop salt ping... dont buy the hook, the elite is way better
@@TheKealan81 of course a HDSlive would blow a Garmin Striker unit out of the water....a Echomap UHD with livescope, makes your HDS look like a Striker unit.
You promise that you have all the same sensitivity settings on there? Is it possible to adjust the sensitivity of the GARMIN up so that it shows the same? If this is possible but you're not showing it, then the video is worthless because the GARMIN might be able to do the same thing, but with different settings. You're not showing us that. You're just saying when set up identically, the Lowrance is better. That doesn't matter if under some different settings the Garmin could do the same thing.
Jarod Morris the Lowrance needs no adjustment.Put it in Automatic Mode and you will see just what you saw in this video.Not so with other units so why buy a unit that needs constant adjustments when you could be catching those fish that the Lowrance will be showing you? Common sense to me but some people just hate being wrong or that they chose the not so good choice. LOL 😂
Make it cheaper or it’s not worth it, your entry level downscan is $100 more than the cheapest garmin clearvu that has a split screen so you can see the standard and clearvu, thus finding fish and seeing structure @ the same time. Love the tech but 3 years later still to pricey.
Im sorry but this may be a little off the subject. I recently purchased my first ever bass boat tracker and the boat came with lowrance hook 2 with triple shot units. my question is when we see fish on the units where are should we be casting towards? I have a unit in front of the boat and one at the cockpit. any help would be greatly appreciated. Great video by the way.
Lowrance sales guy telling you that lowrance is better. Haha. What a joke! Everywhere I look, people complain about their Lowrance failing them. You don't hear the same for Garmin. My old Garmin is 20 years old and still working fine.
I have the same Garmin unit with the CV52 transducer that Garmin calls Clearvu. The GT52 transducer prior to the lawsuit has the down element. The CV52 does not have down element and is worthless and not worth the money. The bad thing about it is that Garmin has been lying to their costumers about their clearvu. Just until recent that they start saying that the CV52 doe not have the down element. I Paid almost $800 in Feburary of 2017 for the Garmin unit and only able to use the CHIRP and maps. The sidevu is not that great either. Contact Garmin couple of times but Garmin is unwelling to make this right for their costumers.
Settings seem a little off on the Garmin 🤣. Put them on same settings and same color. This is not a realistic comparison bc of these things. Anyone with experience with finders knows the color difference can change what you see 🤦♂️
Not really, the fact is on the cv transducers there is no dedicated down scan element. Garmin was sneaky about it and got caught lying and that pissed off a bunch of people. It is what it is. I guess the gt transducers do have a true down scan or view, whatever you want to call it, so the problem has been fixed.
I found out that Garmin's down image was crap, I marked a rock ledge off to side of the boat on side image and nothing on the down image,I learned the hard way by hitting a rock with my motor screwing up my prop, I'm changing brands and going with a company that has a true down image,Garmin's just lost another customer
Jc Manuel Lowrance set on Automatic and it does the work. You just can’t admit that Lowrance is by far the better choice but it still is like it or not.
Well of course Garmin isn't as good, when you're representing Lowrance - I'd say WTF did anyone expect. When Lowrance is as reliable as Garmin, come on back
@@officialWWM cause the guy sells Lowrance so obviously he's going to make sure his product looks better. Btw, fish move so, just because it was there on one pass doesn't mean it's there on the next pass. Lol
@@officialWWM he said the lowrance showed fish, the garmin didn't. Two separate passes so, that means shit! I've worked on pro boats years ago and no, you look for structure and fish. No point in fishing structure if there's no sign of fish.
rustic35 well. The Lowrance showed the structure and fish. The Garmin didn’t. Can the Garmin be tuned to show structure and fish better? I don’t know, be nice to have a unbiased person do the same test and tune both graphs the same way.
buy lowrance if you want to talk to India for customer service. it's a absolute joke. you better pray you don't ever have a problem with your lowrance unit.
Lowrance brand is rubbish and their after care service is terrible. I’ve owned 3 and all 3 got wet inside whilst Jetski fishing. My next buy will be a Garmin and I’m going to do my own review video
In general, the TI units are faster in response to inputs. This is seen when quickly switching between sonar, downscan, chart, and split screens ruclips.net/user/postUgkxeAxH15LxhjGlg5-CRYqjTGTEH0tbY4vk recommend The Hook units will show some lag on button pushes and screen switching. The big ticket item though is maps. If you install a mapping card such as Navionics or the free C-Map Genesis which has a lot of map detail, then moving around the map with the cursor or when running down the lake can lag significantly on the Hook units, but is seamless with the TI units.
Great product. Second one I bought and no issues at all. Love it for the function and value.Great features too. It could track fish better but all in all its great for the money.
Thank you, I've been stressing about what to get. I'm looking at Garmin and Lowrance.. They both look great but Lowrance seems a little better.
2 years later Garmin is KILLING IT with livescope and lowrance is not even a close 2nd
two years later now and lowrance is pretty close with active target 2. humminbird is pretty behind though lol
One fact if you start out using a product brand, you tend to stick with it. Reason is you get calibrated to the buttons, functions and layout, and it's just easier to use because your familiar with it.
I'm a electronics DA and once I finally learn how to use a unit I don't want to change or (pull teeth). Lowrance units are just easier for me to use, so I stick with 'em... I'm positive that lowrance, hummingbird, and garmin make great products, it's just what you are used to..imo...
Betcha can't say the same thing now?! Garmin is now using full downscan ,but garmin is also whooping the pants off of livesight. Lowrance and johnson set back, resting on their laurels and Garmin came in and stole the show from them. And before the lawsuite, garmin WAS using downvu, which was a down facing element. Garmin was get to me from the beginning, but i am even more a happy garmin user. Lowrance on the other hand disapponted men with their software and interface... I bought an elite ti eariler in the year but i am glad i returned it and went all in with garmin.
To confirm, The GT54UHD has a dedicated down scan transducer now?
@@scottmccrea9506 yes, GT transducers have a full down element
@@jaimeastin Ya just confirmed on Garmin site. I haven't even hooked it up just been using the Live Scope so far. with 5 year old lowrance for side and down imge. Right now for an overall package Garmin can't be beat for freshwater anyway.
Which Garmin do you have?
@@killintimeoutdoors I have a lot of garmins..
But for this video, two 93SV echomap plus with livescope and UHD transducer. Very Happy with Garmin over the years.
Cool. A guy in a Lowrance shirt selling the Lowrance products! Who would’ve guessed. All immaterial now post the law suit and G2 transducers. I own both L and G. Both are very good. G panoptics steal the show though!
I have Lowrance HDS and love it.My buddy heard all the GREAT thing about the new garmin so he bought one and replaced his Lowrance. After 3 months, he put his Lowrance back on but does use the garmin for mapping. Really dont see any difference in the mapping on both units. Guess its whatever one likes. I'l stick with Lowrance!
i would like to know the sensibility settings of both equipments...
its 455khz you can see it on both screen
That's the frequency not the sensitivity
The fact they don't understand that two transducers with a triangle view pattern can be adjusted so that part of the scan area is vectored straight down goes to show they are just trying to make a marketing point...
lol you should see the picture on my Garmin 73 CV UHD. It would blow that lowrance away in this test. It is crazy how clear it is.
What transducer are you running on the Garment is it a GT 56
Hi. I have a Elite ti2. I mainly use the downscan for finding 100ft wrecks and structures to dive and drop a shot line on. The wrecks just show as spikes with no detail. Can you do a video on how to have my downscan set up?
and to think I was catching fish 40 years ago(and still am) with none of this crap...lmao
Já fiz vários testes Garmin, lowrance, humminbird, nunca mostrou o gráfico igual nós vídeos , acredito que são tradutores melhores , oque min fez devolver e ficar com o Garmin
Yeah I just wanted to see the settings on these units.
"Call me crazy" as you say in the video, but none of this matters after June/18 because Garmin's LiveScope blows away any downscan technology and Lowrance's new LiveSight compares to THREE year old Gamin Panoptix technology ... and I'm a Lowrance guy - not a happy one though because I'm probably going to be selling all my Lowrance equipment and buying Garmins.
is this still legit ? i have 4 strike cv and about to change to hook reveal 7..do u think i shud stay with garmin or change to lowrance ?
@@OrcaAngler my garmin 73CV UHD is nuts. You wouldn't believe the clarity it has. It is wayyyy better than my humminbird helix 7 even after messing with the settings. Most of the time I have to guess with the humminbird and go back over it with my garmin to see the fine detail. You are missing half of what is down there with my humminbird. And the panoptix is crazy good. I've only used it once on a friend's boat but I loved it. We found a school of spotted bass on the graph in open water. Pulled off a little and you could see them swimming 60 feet from us. It sure won't be long before I replace my Helix with a garmin SV
Adjust the sensitivity lmao, this is bs and I'm a hummingbird guy
not to mention he has it on the lowest frequency setting as well.
both are using the same frequancies 455khz
can anyone recommend fish finder lowrance or garmin it better ?
ill just help everyone out as much as i can... if u go lowrance dont get any of the hook series, lowrance replaced mine with the elite, soon ill tell everyone if its trash
so how is it ?
indeed hook is trash
Nice video. Is there one comparing Lowrance and Humminbird?
I have 2 of the Garmin echo map 93sv units(the larger Garmin then shown in this video, but same transducer) and I'll agree, it's down imaging and side imaging are garbage. One advantage Garmin does have is it's maps and GPS are superior in my opinion. Chirp sonar is about the same but I will disclaim I have never seen a side by side of the sonars going over the same fish. My previous hummingbird 999 had much better side imaging then the Garmin and the Lowerance side imaging is even better. I'm now thinking about adding a Lowerance just for the down imaging and using my Garmin only for the maps and gps.
RockHardClimber ...spot on...i have both of theses units and the lowrance is far better
@@slyydaddy1 not anymore. Garmin way better
Where dig u get the fixture that u have the transducers mounted too? I have a tiller steer and no enough room between motor and the transom. That set up is exactly what i need.
my hook 2 5 triple shot.. does the transducer and signal clarity of my fishfinder compare to this elite unit?
Garmin go to future with MFD and transducers, Lowrance go to past with new Active Imaging 3-1 and Live....
Hey is it posible to make the test vs humminbird?
I'm glad I found this, I was just about to buy the Garmin. I also noticed a reading difference of 3 feet in depth. Which one is right?
Is reveal triple shot better than garmin sv then?
No, gt52 probe of garmin vivid is superior to tripppleshot of lowrance reveal
none of brands work in salt water most of the times because the echo in salt and fresh water is different and when you get a echo that goes through fresh water then salt in a second with different temp and density and boat goes up and down because of waves you get overwhelmed cpu. only old fashion 200 2d works .. I see good picture in fresh water, i also good see good picture on down scan if there is calm water in salt
as much as i hate lowrance i will say this,,,, this is why there are different water settings on lowrance as to stop salt ping... dont buy the hook, the elite is way better
Kool... now compare the prices and explain how lowrance costs twice as more then the garmin
And Lowrance HDSLIVE would blow your garmin away
@@TheKealan81 of course a HDSlive would blow a Garmin Striker unit out of the water....a Echomap UHD with livescope, makes your HDS look like a Striker unit.
Are this two unit on different level ?
Is the garmin transducer in this video the CV or the GT transducer?
This was old and back with he CV. Garmin GT has real down element
The first guy made it sound like he was selling clearvu
You promise that you have all the same sensitivity settings on there? Is it possible to adjust the sensitivity of the GARMIN up so that it shows the same? If this is possible but you're not showing it, then the video is worthless because the GARMIN might be able to do the same thing, but with different settings. You're not showing us that. You're just saying when set up identically, the Lowrance is better. That doesn't matter if under some different settings the Garmin could do the same thing.
Jarod Morris the Lowrance needs no adjustment.Put it in Automatic Mode and you will see just what you saw in this video.Not so with other units so why buy a unit that needs constant adjustments when you could be catching those fish that the Lowrance will be showing you? Common sense to me but some people just hate being wrong or that they chose the not so good choice. LOL 😂
Make it cheaper or it’s not worth it, your entry level downscan is $100 more than the cheapest garmin clearvu that has a split screen so you can see the standard and clearvu, thus finding fish and seeing structure @ the same time. Love the tech but 3 years later still to pricey.
Garmins downs can is so much better of a picture
Garmin hates this video LOL
Im sorry but this may be a little off the subject. I recently purchased my first ever bass boat tracker and the boat came with lowrance hook 2 with triple shot units. my question is when we see fish on the units where are should we be casting towards? I have a unit in front of the boat and one at the cockpit. any help would be greatly appreciated. Great video by the way.
Lowrance sales guy telling you that lowrance is better. Haha. What a joke!
Everywhere I look, people complain about their Lowrance failing them. You don't hear the same for Garmin. My old Garmin is 20 years old and still working fine.
Which Lowrance models have this down scan system?
I have the same Garmin unit with the CV52 transducer that Garmin calls Clearvu. The GT52 transducer prior to the lawsuit has the down element. The CV52 does not have down element and is worthless and not worth the money. The bad thing about it is that Garmin has been lying to their costumers about their clearvu. Just until recent that they start saying that the CV52 doe not have the down element. I Paid almost $800 in Feburary of 2017 for the Garmin unit and only able to use the CHIRP and maps. The sidevu is not that great either. Contact Garmin couple of times but Garmin is unwelling to make this right for their costumers.
dragonfly2911 Unwelling = Unwilling? 😂😁😷
Settings seem a little off on the Garmin 🤣. Put them on same settings and same color. This is not a realistic comparison bc of these things. Anyone with experience with finders knows the color difference can change what you see 🤦♂️
Not really, the fact is on the cv transducers there is no dedicated down scan element. Garmin was sneaky about it and got caught lying and that pissed off a bunch of people. It is what it is. I guess the gt transducers do have a true down scan or view, whatever you want to call it, so the problem has been fixed.
The lowrance is 450 dollers more that's why
I found out that Garmin's down image was crap, I marked a rock ledge off to side of the boat on side image and nothing on the down image,I learned the hard way by hitting a rock with my motor screwing up my prop, I'm changing brands and going with a company that has a true down image,Garmin's just lost another customer
Glad I bought a Lowrance
The settings are changed on the garmin
Jc Manuel Lowrance set on Automatic and it does the work. You just can’t admit that Lowrance is by far the better choice but it still is like it or not.
How do you do a factory reset on the hook2 7x7
Well of course Garmin isn't as good, when you're representing Lowrance - I'd say WTF did anyone expect. When Lowrance is as reliable as Garmin, come on back
Sensitivity and the transducer used is a big deal…
5 years video but garmin still better half price , with almost same picture lol
You mean the technology that was later proven in court to be stolen from humminbird. Lol
Downscan and downvu both suck anyway. Panoptix and livescope are the Future anyway and garmin has that.
What's this
Why are you using different color. You need to be comparing apples to apples
Change the settings bro hahaha
Sell me down scanning for $160, Garmin will...
Let’s listen from a guy who wears Garmin shirt next time! What was that, a joke? 😆
this is in fact pretty bias.
floppysocks biased. Why do you say that?
@@officialWWM cause the guy sells Lowrance so obviously he's going to make sure his product looks better. Btw, fish move so, just because it was there on one pass doesn't mean it's there on the next pass. Lol
rustic35 that's why you don't look for fish, you look for structure 🙄
@@officialWWM he said the lowrance showed fish, the garmin didn't. Two separate passes so, that means shit!
I've worked on pro boats years ago and no, you look for structure and fish. No point in fishing structure if there's no sign of fish.
rustic35 well. The Lowrance showed the structure and fish. The Garmin didn’t. Can the Garmin be tuned to show structure and fish better? I don’t know, be nice to have a unbiased person do the same test and tune both graphs the same way.
buy lowrance if you want to talk to India for customer service. it's a absolute joke. you better pray you don't ever have a problem with your lowrance unit.
Garmin is always American out of Kansas or Washington state
@@John_D2 I've used garmin's customer service a few times. It's always been good. I used their GPS units in the woods of the grid..
Man these lowrance guys never talk good about garmin. Wonder why lmao
Lowrance brand is rubbish and their after care service is terrible. I’ve owned 3 and all 3 got wet inside whilst Jetski fishing.
My next buy will be a Garmin and I’m going to do my own review video
Garmin change the transducers now to UHD, so this video is not revelant
Lowrance has the worst costumer service of any unit on the market don't stand behind their products
biased review
hypnotik174 sore loser often? 😂
@@1OFGODSOWN The guy is wearing a lowrance shirt. That's not throwing any red flags for you?