BTW, ADM08A sells for 18-19 USD and it's much solidly build than AN8008....
I've got the Peak Meter branded version of that (the PM18C) and it's a pretty nice meter that works well. But I doubt it would appeal at all to the AN8002/8008 audience; it's about four times the size and manual ranging.
have you opened it? i mean have you confirmed it's DM1106EN based and not DTM0660? ADM08A is using DM1106EN for sure. [EDIT] I found review in Russian here:
https://mysku.ru/blog/taobao/49127.htmland it's DM1106EN - also they list price of 13 USD [EDIT]
from my understanding for what main purposes people here want to use AN8008, i don't see manual ranging as an issue.
Personally, I wouldn't mind manual ranging, but then - I haven't had an auto ranging meter yet. Functionality wise, for a 6000 count, it is more expensive than you can get the AN8002 (which is about $13-14 lowest price). None of them have a huge price difference though.
IMHO, that's unfair comparison, because at least ADM08A, (which outside design is the same as Peak Meter PM18C, but I don't know if they are the same inside) is using the same chipset as AN8008 (DM1106EN) and it cost less than 19 USD delivered.
counts for those chipsets are just setting in the EEPROM, you can set those meters to any count up to 9999 with changing 2 bytes in their EEPROM, but DTM0660-based meter like AN8002 cannot go more than 8500 counts. so, what I am wondering and interested to see, someone who has the necessary equipment to make tests - hack the EEPROM of DM1106EN-based ADM08A to 9999 counts and compare it against AN8008. in fact AN8008 EEPROM dump I posted above can be used as reference for such hack.
price-wise AN8002 is the cheapest, then it's ADM08A and then AN8008, but both ADM08A and AN8008 has same new DM1106EN chipset and ADM08A has better overall build quality and if EEPROM hack to 9999 counts is reliable then ADM08A is better choice.