Here, SDS1202X-E is discontinued and replaced " SDS1202X+ (DISCONTINUED > SEE SDS1000X-E SERIES)"
See here and the 2ch X-E is on special until years end:
https://siglentna.com/product/sds1202x-e/Any way these things seem all about same price and tarred by the same brush, see page 33 of SDS1000CML manual.
That is same problem I have with excessive menu depth on the GWInstek.
What is your comment on that?
Menu depth is relative to feature set depth, pure and simple.
Minimal feature set like with a CRO you can fit all the buttons, knobs and switches on the front panel and have everything visible without any need for a menu.
I went to DSO's in 2009 with a Tek TDS2012B and apart from a little time gaining familiarity with the much greater feature set than a CRO, I never looked back and some 4 years later knowing DSO's were the future and by pure chance I teamed up with Siglent after a little foray with Atten.
The only thing you need do different using a DSO and really it still applies with a CRO is plan a strategy to take a measurement and you do the same with a CRO although after years of using one you don't really know you're doing it.
It's the same just a different path to get the same result.
Now I no longer have or even wish to have a CRO and immersing yourself in DSO usage is far easier as you think about how to take the exact same measurement but in a different manner.
My advice is not to be scared of a menu but instead understand why it is there and what it is for and then learn to use it for best effect which soon will repay you.
We spend years learning all the new devices in the EE world and resist learning the new test equipment technologies ? Why ?
