Took delivery of an SDS2104X Plus yesterday. Wow - what a nice piece of kit. I liked my previous scope, a Rigol DS2072A but I struggle to read the very small fonts used and I have been thinking of going for 4 channels for a while. I thought I was happy with two channels but now, well, I'm twice as happy
I have a very quiet lab environment and yes the fan is quite obvious and yes it has the ever so slight clicking/ticking sounds. Slightly loosened the torx screws but no difference. Wouldn't say the screws are particularly tight as some have reported elsewhere. One day, I may upgrade the fan but am in no rush - please don't get me wrong, this is not a great problem. To give you an idea the "ticking" sound kind of disappears as I move my head around - the room acoustics are sufficient to make it come and go in slightly different places. - I have plenty of other kit that is louder and having just finished a small 1 hour piece of work with it, I didn't bother to reach to switch it off, and kind of realised that I wasn't noticing it any more. So that's a win.
Gorgeous UI - whether touch, mouse, web or buttons.
For completeness I also recently bought an SDM3045X DMM which is nice but doesn't make me warm all over like the Siglent 'scope and the SA. I think the UI needs a lot of work. I have little doubt that it is a better machine than the low brand recognition VC8145 that it replaces as a main lab bench DMM but, I hate to say it, for a while I think I preferred my trusty VC8145 even though you can tell that its not in the same league as the Siglent quality wise. After a settling in period I am now pretty enthusiastic about the Siglent which just has to be my goto machine in the lab so that's another win. I am a hobby user and this, the 'scope and the recent SSA3000X were rather indulgent luxury purchases. Without EEVBlog and its contributors I am pretty sure none of it would be now sitting on my desk - worth saying, 'cos its true.
OK, I am straying OT for this particular thread but not sure it warranted starting a new one. Not a lot of point in me reviewing the SDS2104X+ - its been done many times by folk who have done a better job than I would do. Suffice to say, pleased as punch with the machine and having just solved my first little electronics problem with it (a noisy opamp based differential amp that turned out to be picking up radiated SMPS noise) you'd have to fight me to take it away !
Kind Regards
Eloso