On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:58:13 +0100, you wrote:

>Just reviving an old thread
>
>> We have the MSO8104A and placed the order for the DSO8104A.
>> It is not really as good as Lecroy but the price is right. I will
>> say Lecroy is better in terms of performance. Hopefully next year
>> we will have the budget to buy a better one, should not be an
>> Agilent any more...
>
>Had the Tektronix boys around today at a show, and they were demonstrating 
>the their MSO4000 series, and I would have to say it is a match for the 
>Agilent machines. It certainly has extremely fast screen updates, and a 
>myriad of triggering modes that would do anything one could want - well that 
>is the way it seems. The Tek men reckon it absolutely blows the equivalent 
>Agilents into the weeds - but then what else would you expect them to say. 

And here's Agilent's take on it...
http://demos.tm.agilent.com/6000/agilent.html

I'm sure Agilent chose their glitch test waveforms in such a way as to make the Tek look worse, but
the general argument about acquire time vs. processing time is hard to refute....


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