Hi Herb,
The high pitched noise is caused by the current through the coil getting into the headphone electronics, if you are using a booster and it does not have decoupling built in then it will cause this noise, a bad internal grounding in the detector will cause this noise as will a bad coil connector. Try a smaller coil and if the noise gets less then it is coil switching current, try connecting the headphones directly to the detector with a non amplified battery and see if it has gone.