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Should I buy a Rigol MSO5000?
Fungus:
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 05, 2019, 07:12:02 am ---Not true. If there is anyone with a monetary interest in Rigol it must be Fungus. In every Rigol-ish topic he is the one pretending it is all sunshine and unicorns. Usually pretending that long (10s to 100s of pages long) topics about bugs in Rigol equipment don't even exist. :palm: Perhaps it is time Fungus reveals himself as a Rigol employee.
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Is this the same Fungus who started the whole "Siglent hacking" thread and has been saying since the very first day it was hacked that hacked Rigols/Siglents are now about equal bang-per-buck? Just asking...
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 05, 2019, 07:12:02 am ---For clarity: I have no monetary interest in any brand. Just trying to help people make a good choice for themselves by showing the good AND the bad.
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...all the while totally ignoring that fact that Siglents aren't all sunshine and unicorns either and that some people simply don't care if their FFT is a bit rubbish or that the input amplifier overdrives by a tiny amount if you go into the 200mV range then manually tune the gain up to 400mV.
For the price of a 4-channel Siglent you can have a DS1054Z and a very nice multimeter. I'm just recognizing what's better value for people who don't know what op-amp overdrive is and don't care if the internal oscillator follows the design guidelines or not, just so long as it works.
--- Quote from: ebclr on April 05, 2019, 07:20:43 am ---All those bugs on Rigol are simple "neurotic people bugs", on a day to day use, you don't feel any of those bugs
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This.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: Fungus on April 05, 2019, 06:56:48 am ---It seems like somebody is comparing the MSO5000 to equivalent spec scopes from high-end players, not equivalent money.
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That would be Rigol themselves. :palm:
Fungus:
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 05, 2019, 07:12:02 am ---The oscilloscope market is just interesting to follow and so far the A-brands don't seem to feel threatened at all.
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Brand names have great power but you can bet they're following Rigol/Siglent very closely.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: Fungus on April 05, 2019, 07:22:59 am ---...all the while totally ignoring that fact that Siglents aren't all sunshine and unicorns either and that some people simply don't care if their FFT is a bit rubbish or that the input amplifier overdrives by a tiny amount if you go into the 200mV range then manually tune the gain up to 400mV.
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This topic isn't about Siglent but if you insist: the scope I threw in the trash was an expensive one from Siglent so I'm not a fan of them. OTOH in all fairness I have to conclude that -based on what gets posted on this forum- it does seem that Siglent has improved their firmware development a lot and is getting ahead of Rigol.
Fungus:
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 05, 2019, 07:32:15 am --- it does seem that Siglent has improved their firmware development a lot and is getting ahead of Rigol.
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Rigol has just spent three years developing their own ASIC for the front end and switching to Xilinx-based hardware (I assume this meant starting from zero, firmware-wise). They might just be getting warmed up. :popcorn:
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