The price to performance ratio is indeed hard to beat, as I said I absolutely love mine, but if you don't need the bandwidth and already have other scopes it's harder to justify something that big and bulky. It's also not an instrument I'd recommend to someone who is afraid to tinker. On mine I had to replace all of the relays on the attenuator hybrids, not a horrible job but it was tedious and required considerable care not to damage the hybrids. The displays are also a bit of a weak point, the optical gel between the CRT and shutter panel can develop bubbles which are a real pain to correct, and the tube is run rather hard to compensate for the losses in the system. Older models are full of SMD electrolytic capacitors that leak and damage the boards, fixable but it can be a big job. Also parts are difficult to find and expensive, usually it's cheapest to buy a second scope for parts. Still, a 500MHz 4 channel scope with a color screen, even though new scopes in that class are much cheaper than these were when new, they're still far from cheap!