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| salomonander:
Thanks everybody, keep it coming :) I do have to mention budged here though. Well below 1500€. I could get the RTC100 with generator new for 750€. Which is why i find it so tempting. The Keysight with generator is 1000€. I really dont want to go much higher than that. Unless you guys say that this budged wont get me anywhere. I do repair broken studio equipment. Most of it is vintage (60s-80s) but very high quality. Still, most of the time its just tracing a sine wave to find a defective part and working with a multimeter. I do have an old Wandel and Goltermann generator and meter i use for calibrating. So really basic stuff i guess. It would be amazing to get some kind of frequency analysis though - I do want to get an audio analyzer in the future, but i dont have the funds yet. Oh, and i should mention that i really do hate fans with a passion. |
| KungFuJosh:
--- Quote from: salomonander on October 07, 2024, 06:12:56 pm ---Thanks everybody, keep it coming :) I do have to mention budged here though. Well below 1500€. I could get the RTC100 with generator new for 750€. Which is why i find it so tempting. The Keysight with generator is 1000€. I really dont want to go much higher than that. Unless you guys say that this budged wont get me anywhere. I do repair broken studio equipment. Most of it is vintage (60s-80s) but very high quality. Still, most of the time its just tracing a sine wave to find a defective part and working with a multimeter. Replacing caps, finding broken parts and calibrating. So really basic stuff i guess. It would be amazing to get some kind of frequency analysis though - I do want to get an audio analyzer in the future, but i dont have the funds yet. --- End quote --- If that's your budget, I would look seriously at the Siglent SDS2000X Plus. It's €1,199, and has the 2000 level features but only 2 math channels (instead of 4), and it's 8bit instead of 12bit. It also has a built-in AWG. I would buy that again ten times before looking at the lower models that include 12bit. Then I would save up a separate budget for the QA403 eventually. It's probably not needed, more of a nice to have. Unless you're impatient, and then it's a must have. 😉 |
| Antonio90:
Unless you want a bigger screen, get yourself a DHO800 or an SDS800X-HD. The Siglent has FRA, it is certainly slow, but quite good. You need a Siglent AWG for it to work out of the box, although there are scripts here in the forum to make it interface with other brands' AWGs. Both will set you back around 400-500 bucks, and have low-noise front ends with 12 bit ADCs. The next step, which would be the 2000X-Plus is already 1500 VAT included. Save the extra cash and buy an AWG, or whatever other instrument you could need. |
| Sorama:
--- Quote from: KungFuJosh on October 07, 2024, 06:19:39 pm --- If that's your budget, I would look seriously at the Siglent SDS2000X Plus. It's €1,199, and has the 2000 level features but only 2 math channels (instead of 4), and it's 8bit instead of 12bit. It also has a built-in AWG. I would buy that again ten times before looking at the lower models that include 12bit. --- End quote --- The 2000x plus has even 10 bit resolution up to 20 ish MHz. And a really good input front wrt noise, so good for audio. |
| salomonander:
Thanks, the siglent looks interesting. But it being slow kills it for me. And i have read that everywhere so far. Im hardcore adhd and any kind of digital latency drives me mad in milliseconds :) I was not even aware that this might be an issue coming from an analog one. So i really need a super fast interface. Are all siglents like that? |
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