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New Tektronix 3 Series MDO
snoopy:
--- Quote from: elektropionir on April 27, 2020, 06:29:48 am ---Everything in this thread is pretty much what I have come to expect from Tektronix. Despair inducing prices and premium marketing BS.
Few years ago when Lecroy started pushing 12bit scopes, there was an article on tek homepage about how nobody needs 12bit scopes :)
Nevertheless, it is really sad to watch the complete hollowing out of once prosperous and iconic USA companies by these finance scumbags and private equity vampires.
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Tek even made a video about it I believe ;)
Sighound36:
Some very valid points chaps, once you cut through the marketing BS and have the scopes to live with for a couple of weeks that is when the wheat from the chaff becomes quite obvious. Also you need to take into account the applications you are looking to really investigate and selecting the most suitable option for the purpose
We had on loan over a period of 2 months a R&S RTO2044, A Keysight S series 8Ghz, A Tek MSO654 8Ghz and the Wavepro 804HD-MS so we really did have first hand experience with all of these upper mid range scopes.
If we would have not plumped for the leCroy, the Keysight would have been next easily.
The Tek last and the R&S third, I just do not like its interface, however others it will be different 8)
When looking at options in this range there is no substitute for decent hands on daily use.
snoopy:
I believe Spectrum View is available at no additional cost on the Tek MSO 5 and 6 (optional for the MSO 4) ! This is like having a time correlated spectrum analyzer for each channel. Did you get to use it by any chance in your evaluations ?
james_s:
It's such a shame what has happened to Tek. I absolutely love the TDS3000 and TDS700 series scopes, but pretty much everything Tek has offered since then has missed the mark IMO.
Wuerstchenhund:
--- Quote from: james_s on April 28, 2020, 05:24:53 am ---It's such a shame what has happened to Tek. I absolutely love the TDS3000 and TDS700 series scopes, but pretty much everything Tek has offered since then has missed the mark IMO.
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Tek has missed the mark for a lot longer than that. It's demise started when analog scopes became a dead-end, and Tek has shown ever since that they never really 'got' digital scopes and would rather still make analog scopes.
Most of Tek's DSOs have been pretty lackluster, often hampered by weird design decisions and a slow architecture, and that includes the TDS700 Series. There were some bright spots, though, such as the TDS200 (which introduced the lunchbox format, allthough they weren't the only ones, Iwatsu had a similar scope back then which was rebaded by LeCroy), or the TDS3000 which could be battery operated. Still, both scopes were painfully slow, and aside from the form factor or battery didn't offer much over scopes from other brands. And the fact that Tek carried both well into the 2000's is testament to the general lack of innovation when it comes to scopes.
The really sad part is that they still don't seem to understand the DSO market, even after escaping the cust-cutting culture of Danaher, and I wonder how long they can afford to bleed market share while mostly relying on a brand name that was great some 30 years ago.
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