@Martin72:
Could you go more into detail regarding what you mean by "fine audio signals" - which you find the MSO5k being not suitable for (and why)? And the same for ripple measurements? (leaving FFT or bode plot aside for a moment - which one could see as marketing features that can't compare to their stand-alone brothers for a reason)
What I want is getting a good allrounder scope for mixed-signal work - but also one for playing around with analog audio repair (mainly studio gear, not Hi-Fi) and long term maybe even development of both analog audio (like mic pre-amps or analog sound sculpting units like equalizers or harmonic distortion generators etc.) AND embedded systems...
So my "usage profile" seems to be pretty similar to Dude McGee's.
I already have a trusty HP54610B 500MHz ;-) But I wanted to have more options and of course a more modern unit in general...and the easy-to-use logic functions look appealing to me...
I need to say that I'm still at the beginning of my electronics (and scope-using) journey....
BUT what I really don't get in these whole discussions around these kind of scopes in this price range I'm following on forums like these and on YT for a while now:
Something like two to three decades ago people were capable of do any kind of serious audio work with the better range analog (or earlier analog-digital storage) scopes....how can it be that in 2024 a scope with a feature set of the MSO5000 is being called more or less "useless for audio work"...?
I mean: How noisy must a front end be to be classified like that? Has the whole "era" of 8-bit digital scopes been useless then? And how does that fit your statement of "in 2018 it was a sensation"
And now in 2024....useless?
Are these scopes really so bad? Or just in comparison to the high range (and price tag) ones of today like the big R+S or LeCroys etc for 5k-30k USD/EUR?
What I really like about the MSO5000 are simple ergonomics aspects like separate controls for each analog channel....such things might seem of minor priority....for me (being an ergonomics nerd) they might not because fiddling around with the V-controls of separate channels is much faster and more direct than always toggle via a channel selector button...which share the Rigol DHO's (800, 900, 1000, 4000) with the Siglent(s).....;-(