I must concur. We bought an Agilent 6000 series after thoroughly comparing
Tek and Lecroy. Agilent had twice the display resolution, 10,000 times the
update rate (giving a much better capture of transients),
and 100 times the memory depth for nearly the same price.

I would have gone for Tek without even looking were it not for the
advice given here to look at Agilent.

I do recall seeing that Tek has a new line of DPO scopes,
but I don't think they YET have anything like the Agilent MSO scopes
(mixed signal. 4 Analog channels and 16 digital ones in ONE box.
What a time & space saver THAT is).

The one down side I found with Agilent is that it doesn't appear to be
able to directly talk to our network printer, whereas the Tek34xx that
I played with could. It was most convenient being able to just 'print screen'
to the laser printer without an intermediate machine being needed.

Robert

Mike Harrison wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 10:26:20 -0600, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Could you advice me on buying an oscilloscope? Which company is the best
>>>on the market? Which one is worth buying and is not very expensive?
>>
>>Tektronix.  The TDS2000 series scopes are outSTANDing, and not TOO bad on
>>the price front (I promise, after a few months, you'll be glad you bought it and
>>not thinking too hard on the cost).
> 
> 
> If looking at new kit, also look at Agilent's recent offerings - whenever I've compared Agilent and
> Tek scopes at similar price points, Agilent has been significantly better, especially responsiveness
> of user interface & memory depth. 
> 
> 
>>>Did anybody of you design oscilloscope by yourself?
>>
>>Without the aid of a scope? ;-)
>>
>>
>>>I've recently come to conclusion that without an oscilloscope you can't
>>>do much. :-(
>>
>>Not ENTIRELY true, but a scope may save your sanity.
> 
> 
> If you don't have a scope you are wasting a lot of your time. Even an ancient cheap used one is many
> orders of magnitude better than none. 
> 
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