@tin
in EU 34465 is 1150-1200€ , DM3068 is 699€ (VAT free). so yeah, that's almost 500 €, which buys you a scope...
@ebclr
To be honest, nobody really ever proved DM3068 to be really bad or good..
Voltnuts that have equipment, knowledge and patience snobbishly discount it as something without pedigree and not even worth their time.
Everybody just presumed it's bad.
Other ones that speak against it mainly come from position of ether better pedigree of big brands (which has it's merits for sure), or the facts like bigger graphical screen and colours, or something on usability side.. Or they bought it directly from China from who knows who, and got something suspicious (rejects, reworks, repaired).
Those threads mentioned, they have no useful information, they end up talking about everything except DM3068..
That being said, 34465 is a better specced instrument, with better screen, from a reputed company, with global premium support and calibration network. It is almost twice the price too, but if you can pay for it, you can't go wrong with it.
On the other hand, DM3068 is more like 34461 specs vise, and in my experience, holds it's ground well against it, and is better than 34460 that's still a slightly more expensive. But some will say that for the price difference (700€ DM3068 vs. 890€ 34461 VAT free) they still will get Keysight because it's less than 200€ more .. I say that's 30% more.. And screen aside, not much going on for 34461 spec vise, except brand.
But that is a problem with precision instruments. Reputation and repeatable quality (ie. every one made by factory should be uniform quality and live up to specs..) is important..
If you plan to give around 1200 € and you don't care much about graphical screen, Fluke 8846A has even better 1 year accuracy specs than 34465..
Pick your poison.
Or you can think like I did: Keysight 34450A is a 5 1/2 digits (100 000 counts), 0.015% and costs the same as DM3068... And that is a no brainer..DM3068 is much better instrument..
I'm so amused when those that don't like chinese equipment compare it to to big brands, they go straight to comparing it to the best ones.. That cost twice as much...
If you compare it on a basis of price, it looks much better.
But all that is moot... Better question is, and what you had to start with was: what do you plan to do with it. Do you really need 6.5 digit DMM in a first place?
Regards,
Sinisa