Best brands are expensive.
Rohde & Schwarz
Tektronix
Keysight
Yokogawa
LeCroy
Good brands
Rigol
Siglent
GW Instek
Micsig
Owon
Stay away from
FNIRSI
YEAPOOK
Hantek
Daniu
All the other cheap Chinese brands that all use the same hardware.
Most likely missed some brands. There are so many threads about which is the best scope for me here on the forum, like this one https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/need-advise-on-a-new-oscilloscope-to-meet-my-requirement-but-lost-on-brans/
Thanks much for the detailed list that is probably good enough for me right now and it does have quite a few brands that i was interested in.
Glad you mentioned the Hantek i was looking closely at those, now i wont anymore :-)
The FNIRSI (strange name looks like a scrambled English word game) has been confirmed that it is not 100MHz by the manufacturer. They are stating that it is 40MHz so i think still lying a little because a test done here (was that you) shows 30MHz and the test i did on the scope of the person i know who just bought one shows 30MHz also.
What they actually said though was that "It is 40MHz but can reach to 100MHz in some cases". So they must have put in a Mr. Magoo magic chip in there that suddenly increases the bandwidth to 100MHz when Pluto is in the 7th house and you are not observing the scope display screen :-)
I am a little surprised that Owon is in the "Good" list i thought it was a wackadoodle name too :-)
I dont know anything about it really though. I'll have to check pricing.
Is the order of the "Good" scopes in descending order of quality or preference or anything like that?
Thanks again very interesting.