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| Should I buy a Rigol MSO5000? |
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| Fungus:
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 05, 2019, 12:29:47 pm ---We all would like a BMW 7 series for the price of a Ford Focus. --- End quote --- An awful lot of people manage to get to work and go shopping without heated massaging seats. |
| Noy:
I die exactly what the OP want. Sold my DS1054z for 300€ and bought MSO5074. And I'm happy. 350MHz for 1k nice. But even without the Hack the bigger Screen an dedicated knobs for every Channel was worth the money for me. |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: luma on April 05, 2019, 01:08:05 pm --- --- Quote from: nctnico on April 05, 2019, 12:29:47 pm ---You can also check the second hand market. After my Siglent mishap I just ponied up the cash and bought a used Agilent MSO7104. Not cheap but at least it worked as it should. --- End quote --- The MSO7104 is currently selling used for nearly 10x the purchase price of the scope the OP is asking about. Look, we all get it - you don't like low-end scopes. Not everyone is going to spend the price of a decent used car on a bench tool. Is there some point where you take a moment to consider if your post is actually adding something beneficial to the conversation? --- End quote --- Perhaps you should have read my entire post. The MicSig scope I'm prosing costs less. And if you read my posts more carefully you'd know I have nothing against entry level scopes. What I do have a problem with is putting an unfinished product on the market. Ofcourse you want to defend you spending money on the MSO5000 but that doesn't necessarily help others; you are very strongly biased towards finding justification for your choice. Also asking price isn't selling price on Ebay. I bought my MSO7104 with all options for little over half of what the Ebay sellers are asking currently. And I bought it several years ago. Nowadays you should be able to find a deal in the $3000 range if someone wants to sell it. |
| JPortici:
--- Quote from: TK on April 05, 2019, 01:31:46 am ---My problem was that I expected something really different for a $999 scope. It just feels like a DS1054Z plus. If the DS1054Z and MSO5074 are the only scopes you used, I am sure you will be satisfied. --- End quote --- And that's the problem. Once you use ANY other oscilloscope you see how flawed the rigols really are.. Not only in software bugs but also in user interface design*, gimmick features* and hardware limitations, like the fact that many of the high sensitivity ranges in the 5000 series are digital zoom of an 8 bit acquisition. There are people that won't stand for it and critisizing is NOT being rigol-haters. Wanting better tools and not settling for unfinished, flawed stuff is not about bashing a company. Life is too short to waste time on that *IMHO. |
| TK:
Everybody will be happy with a scope that you can buy for $999 and hack it to 350MHz and 100% of the options, even with a huge list of bugs... until the bug affects you... then you will feel cheated and get buyer's remorse. |
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