There's a good paper linked by rf-loop in this post:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/siglent-ssa3000x-spectrum-analyzers/msg965873/#msg965873
Excellent paper, thank you for the link. If the paper was not nerdy enough - I was reading it at a Weird Al Yankovic concert last night for bonus nerd points.
I have a similarly sized display in the MSOX7104B I have, and it's taken me a while to get it set up in a way that it doesn't takeover the bench.......
So far, with the few hours I have in front of this scope, I am slowly developing a flow and physical layout. The scope, in general has been placed out of reach from where by DUT would be. At first it was just where I arbitrarily set it up. What I found myself intuitively doing is using the front panel to do an initial setup. When I was focusing on probing (relatively far from the scope) - I just kept my wireless mouse close by for tweaks. The voice control was reasonably handy for simple things like start/stop and single shot while both hands were on probes. I kind of like having the scope out of the way and using the mouse/voice - that arrangement gives me some space for the DUT and all the leads coming/going.
Wow, such a nice, overpowered and overpriced toy!
Keysight gave me a good deal.
Only cost a few weeks of pestering friends, family, and complete strangers for votes.
Although best thing to get as a prize, I wonder who would prefer X6000-series scope over DSO-S series for the money?
Similarly priced, DSO-S looks to be better in all features. Except for the weight and waveform update rate, that's 450000/s for hardware-based X6000 and only 700/s for software-driven DSO-S.
But hey, for the same price magnitude you're getting loads of memory, full compatibility with InfiiniMax probes, crazy 10-bit ADC and OCXO-based timebase.
And I didn't mention Windows 7 enabling you to browse Internet directly on the scope screen pretending you're working hard.
Just can't understand why Keysight set their prices so close.
It's hard to say for sure. I was looking at getting a round of financing about a year ago and that was partially for a new high-end scope. The The S-series was high on the list and the X6000 was not on the list at all. During my research, I found how difficult it is to pick an 'all-around' scope that can go from power-electronics to high-speed digital. There are so many little details that add and subtract capability in different areas. Certainly one consideration is the liability of having one very expensive scope vs 2 or more more task dedicated scopes. In SMPS design, the scope is at more risk and does not need anything close to 6Ghz. The high-speed scopes tend to focus on signal integrity for digital systems. The X6000 fits somewhere in the middle and is good at being the only scope on the bench.
While I don't know for sure, it seems the X6000 is much easier to get discounted relative to the S-Series. The MSRP's seem rather close and the S-Series has a winning front end and gobs of memory. Hard to say if the slower update rate would be a problem or not.
In the end, I never business planned to win this scope from Keysight. Now that I have it, I can spend my T&M money on other things - starting with an awesome probe kit. If I had to pay for the scope, it would take a lot longer to go beyond basic probing. In reality, I probably would have looked for a round of financing and used it on a broader variety of lower-cost gear. My money has to cover much more territory than T&M - the whole business is always screaming for more stuff - computers, software, pick and place parts, labor, wire stripping machines, laser engraver, air conditioning upgrade, etc, etc. This thing is a real world win of $40k+ taxes - massive bonus and just the beginning.
See if there's a "Precision" option that you can turn on in the scope's settings/configuration menu. Agilent added this feature to one of the later firmware releases for the DSO/MSO6000 scopes, which was extremely awesome of them. It allows FFTs to be performed on the entire acquisition record rather than just the screenspace data buffer.
It may not be included or relevant in the newer-generation models, but if it is, you should familiarize yourself with it.
I looked at the impact of using hi-res mode and how it may impact FFT performance. What seems to be hidden or at least hard to understand - is how the system is using it's memory. I find myself trying to figure out how long will it take to fill up the modest 4Mpts of memory at a particular sample rate. It would be nice to be able to specify how much time I need to capture and the sample rate would adjust even if I was on a much faster timebase. Or, if I am looking at a span on the FFT - the scope would adjust to an appropriate minimum sample rate. These may be the wishes of an newbie beginner though.
Curious if anyone knows if it would be possible to measure output power of WiFi, Bluetooth, etc - what instrument is needed for those measurements?