Hi,
I own an MSO5074 as well. My real concern is that it is extremely slow. All the reactions and the boot and everything. It is jut not as responsive, as any other equipment i ever owned.
Is there a fix for that?
Thanks
Yes, change it for a Keysight
Exactly. Because my Keysight 3000T boots in 55 seconds...
DSO's are computers with knobs. They need to boot, and not everything will happen in less than 10 ms so you will have a perception it is instantaneous.
I compared MSO5000 and MSO7000 with R&S 3000 series, and they felt equally sluggish. Or not, depending of who you ask.
No DSO will be as interactive as analog scope. Not even 3000T is always so fast that you cannot say you didn't wait for it at least for a little bit.
When you are setting vertical offset it stops acquiring data, so it can redraw static picture to get speed. And it is nonlinear around zero, so in beginning it felt like it skips on encoder. After I got used to it, it is fine.
On R&S 3000 horizontal scrolling with finger was much slower than on Rigol. Some other things were faster.
It is not about Rigol, it is about manufacturers putting stupid menu animations and other stupid stuff that slows down U/I. Because cool new kids generations are used to it from their phones and tablets, and guess what, they don't mind that it could be faster...
So we old school analog knob aficionados have to get used to brave new world. Fact that you can percept that scope has reaction time shouldn't distract you from the fact that despite that, you will be able to do the job.
And if you want to replace MSO5000 with Keysight that is BETTER that it you have to jump to MSOX3000T series. Take note of money difference and decide if it is worth to you.
Or just get over it and you will get used to it after some time...