I was thinking about the Keysight 4-channels "G" scope (1500 eur), but I just discovered it's very limited with respect to the Siglent, and even w.r.t. the MSO5000...
That´s no surprise, you pay for the name, in this case not negative meant.
I'm quite interested in hearing about you experience with the MSO5000, if you have time to tell about it.
As the mso5000 was launched, it was a blast.
Large memory, 9" touchscreen, 8GSa/s max (still unbeaten), 4 mathchannels, 2-ch AWG with modulation, tons of trigger functions, lots of math funtions, lots of measure functions, power analyzer, zone trigger, hdmi output, and so on, and so on...
Still you won´t get these all for this price from another one.
And so I was very happy with it for about a year.
But inbetween this year of owning, several things came up I didn´t like.
How did they put all the features into a unit for such less money in comparison...
Because they use cheap parts.
Fan was noisy, Display was a little bit dim, both were corrected but it´s still not the best.
Touchresponse is a little bit laggy, UI/menu is somekind confusing, style in general is "mickey mouse" like.
But all this won´t worry me.
What turns the nail in the coffin was the "policy" of launching firmware updates and the very final nail was the noisy frontend as I wanted to make ripple measures on a linear psu.
Was not confindent with the results, asked the support if it could get better when buying the much more expensive 7000.
And as the answer came, the frontends are the same this was it.
In the same time the sds2000x+ was presented here.
First I was very sceptical....Only 2GSa/s, no video output, no 2-ch awg, only 2 mathchannels...
But I saw the pics, saw the structured panel and was totally electrified as I saw the UI.
Looks familar to the modern lecroy scopes....should I give it a try?
I did and never regret it - Until now.
It costs "only" appx 400 bucks more and it´s more than a class above.
Very noiseless frontend, 50 ohms inputs, probesense, bodeplot, "mighty" fft, 10" screen, clear and bright, touch ist unlike more responsible, clear structured UI/menu style...
Good firmware support, not only fixing bugs, giving benefits and more features..
After having it for 2 yrs private, I´ve ordered 3pcs for the company I´m working, because I´m totally convinced about the sds2k+.
Still i like the mso5000 and I never get tired about to tell how good it is for it´s price.
But if you can spend appx 400 bucks more there is, in my opinion, no alternative to the sds2k+.
When we´re always talking about new scopes.
I don't like the cheap capacitors Dave highlighted in his review.
Well, the cap thing....hmmmmm...