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New Rigol DS7000
2N3055:
DS7000 is potentially very powerful.
A brands are only good because they tend to keep a platform for very long time. R&S new series is very buggy. Even with basic functions. No better than Siglent in my eye.
But since R&S is an company that plans to sell these scopes for 6-7 years or even more, they will eventually fix all of it. And then, if you buy it then it will be rock solid.
Most important concept here is to keep updating existing, already sold hardware. And not to churn out new scope every 2 years and never fix old ones.
Until now Rigol (for instance) was playing catch up game. Trying to make scopes that will be good enough to compete with big boys. Making new platform every year or two. Learning and developing.
Using existing A/D converters, FPGA etc. Trying different combinations to make it work and yet to cheap to produce. Changing things all the time. Experimenting. Giving up on the stuff that didn't work..
Like we all do.
Meanwhile, Keysight (for instance) kept on producing same old Megazoom architecture (that's 10 years old) , building on 10 years old code base. It made sense for them NOT to change anything major.
And since they knew they were in it for a long run, they made hardware with room to grow some and kept developing and debugging software.
Don't be naive. It wasn't so they can give more to old customers they already gave them money.
It is because they have to keep producing same old scope but make it look relevant and fresh.
But not being idiots, in today's brave world of field upgrades, they let you download new versions. You like them for it. And it makes life easier for them, because they don't have to support bugs on 27 sub-revisions of software since it was released. Win- win.
And now, Rigol has a chipset. It will make sense for them to play the sam game. Keep the platform. Milk it a bit. Develop few more scopes with it. Debug it and make it modular so they don't have to reinvent the wheel all the time... And build up reputation, so they can also charge a bit better prices...
In 70s Honda was a cheap, mini hatchback crap that sold only because it was cheap. Chinese are just following Japanese method. How successful are they going to be, I don't know. But by judging what they did so far, we should not underestimate them.
glarsson:
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on June 26, 2018, 07:53:03 am ---.
Until now Rigol (for instance) was playing catch up game. Trying to make scopes that will be good enough to compete with big boys. Making new platform every year or two.
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But Rigol have not released new oscilloscopes every year or two.
carl0s:
They could've at least made it black or gold or something.
simone.pignatti:
the black one will come in the future, see as example the Rigol RSA5000 and RSA3000
1anX:
I'm looking forward to reading/watching some independent reviews on this new scope.
Dave when are you getting hold of one to tear down and review?
Without serious and in depth reviews we dont know if the new DS-7000 series is buggy or up to spec!
No one wants to be an early adopter of a brand new product featuring its own custom asic and feature set, without seeing some serious independent testing.
Come on Rigol get some of these units out for testing in the wild!
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