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Rigol DS1054Z - Successor after ~5 years?

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Rooster Cogburn:
Is it still advisable to buy a DS1054Z even though it has been on the market for quite a while? I could wait a bit longer if a successor was on the horizon. The jump from the 52E to the 54Z was huge, I'd hate to buy one just to have a massively improved successor drop 6 months later.

tautech:
Have a good hard look at SDS1104X-E, a bit dearer but beats the 54Z in many respects.

Check the comparison chart in this post:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/siglent-sds1204x-e-released-for-domestic-markets-in-china/msg1290409/#msg1290409

Jacon:

--- Quote from: Rooster Cogburn on March 10, 2019, 09:28:16 am ---..., I'd hate to buy one just to have a massively improved successor drop 6 months later.

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With such thinking, you may wait your whole life for "possible" successor...
I've bought my 54Z 1.5 years ago, after 3 days of thinking,  and am still pleased with it  :-+

Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: tautech on March 10, 2019, 10:28:04 am ---Have a good hard look at SDS1104X-E, a bit dearer but beats the 54Z in many respects.

Check the comparison chart in this post:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/siglent-sds1204x-e-released-for-domestic-markets-in-china/msg1290409/#msg1290409

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It's also a fair bit more expensive. In the bang for buck department, the DS1054Z is still unbeaten. They do still appear to sell like hotcakes too, so I don't think Rigol is in a hurry to come up with a replacement.

Rooster Cogburn:

--- Quote from: Jacon on March 10, 2019, 11:47:55 am ---
--- Quote from: Rooster Cogburn on March 10, 2019, 09:28:16 am ---..., I'd hate to buy one just to have a massively improved successor drop 6 months later.

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With such thinking, you may wait your whole life for "possible" successor...
I've bought my 54Z 1.5 years ago, after 3 days of thinking,  and am still pleased with it  :-+

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Well, you're talking to somebody with a ~10 years old TV and Computer, so... maybe that's just my thing :)

Can we do any educated guesses on a successor? How long was the 1052E on the market till the 1054Z basically replaced it? Does the latter use any known end-of-life parts like an old FPGA etc.?


--- Quote from: tautech on March 10, 2019, 10:28:04 am ---Have a good hard look at SDS1104X-E, a bit dearer but beats the 54Z in many respects.

Check the comparison chart in this post:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/siglent-sds1204x-e-released-for-domestic-markets-in-china/msg1290409/#msg1290409


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Yeah, I had a look at the alternatives from Siglent. There's basically a 200Mhz 2 channel competitor for a tiny bit more and a 4 channel alternative north of 500EUR. I'd say the SDS1104X-E is out of my budget and I'm not sure about the 2 channel variant. I don't really have that much experience with a scope and while I have a few basic use cases established, it's hard for me to predict what I'll need a year or two down the road. The 54Z with its 100Mhz soft-upgrade apparently even goes a little beyond that, so I suspect I'm good there. The logic analyzer and function generator updates and the build-in web server sure look neat...

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