I fear that nobody here ever really used one of the new HMO scopes. Unfortunately, I haven't either.
So the following statements are based on other people's reviews, technical data etc. It is also based a little on the (not so good) experience I have with the 8k€ Agilent scopes in the job.
I'd say the only big advantage of the Agilent DSOX line is the waveforms update rate:
2000wfs/s for the Hameg, 50000wfs/s for the DSOX2000, 100000Wfs/s for the DSOX3000
If you need that, there's not much of an alternative to the DSOX line in that price range. In nearly every other aspect, the HMO1024 is superior to a DSOX2014A, especially regarding the record length. Indeed, feature wise the HMO line is better comparable to the DSOX3000 line, which however is much more expensive.
Also keep in mind that lots of the features that Agilent advertises and that Dave praises in his review are just options which have to be paid for. When buying the options for the Agilent that the HMO already has, the price difference becomes even more impressive.
I could offer a comparison obviously made by a Hameg employee which seems to be rather objective though. Problem is that it's German
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Maybe you can still make sense of some of the tables.
http://www.mikrocontroller.net/attachment/113595/mikrocontrollernet_Antworten_HAMEG.pdfAs a side note: in the beginning, you wanted to buy a <$500 2ch scope, now we're in the 2k$ 4ch range. This is a lot of money for hobby projects and for a 1st scope. Honestly I just went through the same decision and really toyed with the idea of buying an HMO1024 because anything below that has that scent of being a compromise and/or B-stock.
In the end, I decided that it was crazy to fling away so much money for a technical toy that I will only use now and then. Also I came to the conclusion that 2ch are indeed sufficient, although 4ch would be cooler of course. Then again, in most cases were I use 4ch in the job, I'd better use a logic analyzer. Especially for my private stuff, the main purpose of a 4ch setup would have been SPI bus and things like that and therefore I bought an Open Logic Sniffer (and as I was in a shopping frenzy, also a ZeroPlus LAP-C 16032 which I patched into a 16128).
Sure, it's your money after all and I understand your considerations, but maybe you should have a 2nd look at an Owon 7102 or at the Rigol if you like and try to convince your inner Geek that a basic Chinese scope is really enough to look at a signal now and then. If you need to use it on a daily basis to get your work done, this is a different thing of course.