Hello people,
It seems some of you have made extensive testing of the SDS2000X Plus and also have a broadwide experience about oscilloscopes. I see it is compared to the MSO5000 from rigol, how would it perform against a MSO7000 ? In terms of noise floor for example.
I may have the possibility to get one of these fully equiped (no price consideration here) but I never used a rigol or siglent scope, I'm completely unaware of the differences in terms of UI experience I always had a techtronix mdo3000 at work.
I have the MDO3000, as well as the MSO5000 and SDS2000X Plus.
I've always found the MDO3000 (& MDO4000) UIs to be terrible in terms or usability (e.g., the two multifunction knobs and button menus, with little apparent consistency) and it's also slow. IMHO, both the MSO5000 and SDS2000X Plus have better, more intuitive UIs than the MDO3000. The SDS2000X Plus is the more polished unit compared to the MSO5000 by some way.
I'd prefer it that all functions were available using the knobs and buttons without using the touch screen, the Siglent is the worst in that respect, whereas almost everything seems to be available on the Rigol. Of course as you know the Tek isn't touch screen enabled, so everything's on knobs & buttons. I prefer the direct independent channel controls of the Rigol & Tek to the shared controls on the Siglent.
The noise and UI delay when changing timebase is annoying on the MSO5000.
The best screen of the three scopes is the Siglent.
I find the memory management on the Rigol is perhaps the best of the lot, followed by the Siglent then the Tek: on the Tek I find myself having to continually adjust the acqusition settings to compromise between UI performance and desired capture length. The Siglent has a weird memory recording feature similar to segmented memory that's always on, and it's not my cup of tea.
I don't have any direct experience on the MSO7000, although I believe it's based the same front end ASICs as the MSO5000.
Of all three, there's no doubt I'd be using the Siglent as my daily driver... it wasn't for the two Keysights already on the bench which have the best UIs IMO ;-) although I also keep an MDO4000 on the bench as there are a very few features that scope has that I sometimes use that I don't have on my Keysights (USB HS & Ethernet decode, Magniview, deeper memory and very occasionally I even use the SA feature).