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Should I buy a Rigol MSO5000?
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2N3055:

--- Quote from: nctnico on April 07, 2019, 10:04:45 pm ---What counts most is the severity of the bugs. If a bug causes an entire feature not to work then it is much more problematic than missing a button press every now and then.

And perhaps R&S isn't the best example. According to what I can find on the Google GW Instek announces the GDS2000E series beginning 2015. When I wrote my review (published februari 2016 https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/gw-instek-gds2204e-(200mhz-4-channel-dso)-review/msg855862/#msg855862 ) they had a pretty much mature product and where able to fix the bugs I had found within weeks.

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Severity of bugs: decodes not working properly and reliably, waveform not shown properly (scaling, offset and artefacts), timebase not working reliably, trigger errors, etc etc.. Just read.. Most of them were serious basic functioning of the scope.
Not "pluses".
But they are fanatastic serious company and they fix things and now, after two years it is getting to be reliable. But it was not reliable as released. It was easily worse or at least similar to MSO5000.
I'm not arrogant enough to postulate that Rigol engineers are stupid and incompetent. If anything, they are probably fantastic, and certainly know their job. But releasing new platform, new ASICS, new everything is hard even for the likes of Keysight.

R&S is actually new benchmark how bad can be something at release, and how it can grow to something great.
So if R&S can have 2 years to make it right so can Rigol..

I wish none of them would release unfinished beta class products. But if western companies are allowed to do that, than so can Chinese..

I would like that A brands would prove me wrong and be actually better at this. But they are not..Sometimes they are even worse, especially considering prices they are charging...
nctnico:
R&S dropped the ball for sure but they put a very nice user interface together on the RTB2000 and related oscilloscopes. Stuff like being able to drag the split screens for example. They probably bit off way more than they could chew and then management kicked in to shove it onto the market. The RTM3000 got released later and that didn't had so many issues.
Fungus:

--- Quote from: dietert1 on April 07, 2019, 06:01:12 pm ---The recommendation to hack it to 350 MHz is strange from a professional point of view, because it voids warranty

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The hack can vanish just as easily, leaving no trace.


--- Quote from: dietert1 on April 07, 2019, 06:01:12 pm --- without getting anywhere close to what it should be.

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 :-//

It enables all possible features/upgrades, just like official paid-for options do.
Fungus:

--- Quote from: nctnico on April 07, 2019, 10:34:25 pm ---They probably bit off way more than they could chew and then management kicked in to shove it onto the market.

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Just like the Rigol MSO5000, then? It's obvious they rushed it our for Xmas.

Weird how R&S get a free pass when they do this but Rigol doesn't, despite R&S costing much more money :popcorn:
nctnico:

--- Quote from: Fungus on April 07, 2019, 10:36:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 07, 2019, 10:34:25 pm ---They probably bit off way more than they could chew and then management kicked in to shove it onto the market.

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Just like the Rigol MSO5000, then? It's obvious they rushed it our for Xmas.

Weird how R&S get a free pass when they do this but Rigol doesn't, despite R&S costing much more money :popcorn:

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Where does R&S get a free pass?
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