Here again in summary, my further impressions, part 2What I liked was the speed of the scope, it was always pretty snappy no matter what was happening/being calculated on the screen.
The decoding was a bit bumpy at first, since the triggering has to be set pretty precisely to display plausible values, but then I liked the visual representation of the table better than with the Siglent, which rather "merges" with the background, because of the same color.
The idea with the sliding windows is great, but a bit tricky to use, especially if you want to move the windows so that they visually make sense.
The connection via LAN worked as I had imagined.
Overall, it's a good scope, but it could be even better if Rigol makes the effort this time and optimizes the software in the near future.
I don't really like comparisons, but there's no getting around it.
The model I had costs about 3200 € including taxes.
The comparison with the 2000X+HD is obvious, because it costs 3550€ incl. taxes and is the next 12 bit scope, after that it gets expensive(I know, I know...Owon...But please people...This is not a comparison, don't force me to prove it
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If I can spend 3200, I can spend 3550, so let's leave that little difference out of it.
Likewise, we can leave the screen size out of it, because they are the same size.
Both have 12 bit resolution and are very low noise, so we leave that out too.
What's left.
A comparison of the (imho) important key features:
DHO4000: 2000X HD:
- 1280x800 screenresolution - 1024x600
- 4GSa/s max. Samplerate - 2GSa/s max
- 800Mhz max bandwith - 500Mhz max
- 500Mpt max memory - 200Mpt max
- Hdmi output - No video output
- No MSO - MSO
- No Bode Plot - Bode Plot
- Active probe inputs - No active probe input
- No awg inbuild - Inbuild awg
In my opinion, however, you can only compare and then decide when the rigol has been optimized in terms of software.
I am somewhat branded by the MSO5000, which has not been optimized to this day.
Should rigol come to its senses and support the new scope accordingly, it would without question be a serious competitor, depending on what features you prefer.
At the moment it is not.
(And not for me anyway, since I need bode plot).
Thanks for reading, I'll make another post with links to some of my posts here.
And who knows, maybe I'll grab the DHO1000 and compare it to the 2000X+, I'm still thinking about it right now.