look at what my buddy just bought!

im a little jealous but atleast I'll get to use it once and awhile... the thing is pretty darn nice.. the display isnt like the slow LCD ones that most dso's have this one is closer to a crt.. but very light with some nifty features..

Looks like it's got a built in mp3 player! Cool!

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How much was that thing?

TDS3064B as shown in the picture.. US$ 11,695.00 new


WOW

Yes those are nice and they work real well.

BUT I do miss the O scopes with real O scope tubes in them.
Now that one does not even have a CRT.
What is the world coming to ....... digital????
Next you will be telling me people are using P r O tools
and they like the way it sounds.

I used a couple of digital scopes in the late '90s, and they left me cold. I'm sure they've improved since then.

For my part, though, I'm going to keep using analog scopes until they're just not available anymore. I use a Tek 2235 at work and I love it. I want to buy one for home sometime.

[quote author="Scenaria"][...the display isnt like the slow LCD ones that most dso's have this one is closer to a crt... [/quote]Yep, plasma displays have the best of both worlds. Besides multi-colors, you have all the memory and processing capabilities of digital, plus the trace can dim/brighten with frequency like analog. I?ve used them and they will spoil you real fast!!

Digital scopes used to suffer from really coarse quantization. I wrote a long (moi??) letter to Stereopile, decrying a variety of errors in a particular issue. I also carped about how many people were growing up to believe that amps had large amounts of visible noise on their outputs, based on viewing them on digital scopes, or seeing the hard copy in the mag.

I'm with NewYorkDave though---that generation of Tek scopes was a watershed. I'm still using my personal 2236. After that they fired a lot of the old engineers and started producing some of the worst products ever. There was one scope that a customer bought that did not allow you to trigger on one signal and display another!! Insanity!

PS: Stereophool thought it in the best interests of their readers not to have their errors pointed out---too technical... This was after they published a tutorial on audio electronics chock full of howlers.

I've been checkg out oscilloscopes lately and i have a question or two.

Do they come with built in signal generators, or is that something completely seperate.

What things am i looking for in one for use on diy audio electronics.

Do they come with built in signal generators, or is that something completely seperate.

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I have yet to see one that does but then again I don't shop for scopes on a regular bases but I doubt it.

What things am i looking for in one for use on diy audio electronics.

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If you ask me buy a duel trace scope it can double as a phase meter when summing X+Y. Aside from that you can find usually good ones on evilbay for pretty cheap.

WHat is pretty cheap?

between 25-150 US

you cant go wrong with any of these...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=45008&item=7505587787&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

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If you could find a few links for decent ones from canada, prefferably near toronto, that'd be awesome

Thanks

just do a search like I did

you can search for ones in your area

This one is very nice. There are some models with 2 channels and B&W screen that also do the job and have a good price...


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Fabio

Looks like it's got a built in mp3 player! Cool!

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With those coloured buttons the FisherPrice playstation-factor is indeed pretty high.
:wink: We have a few of those at work, but I've not used them so far. Look pretty convenient w.r.t. portability though, easy to add a few more channels to a setup without filling up all space.

not as fisher price as the new hakko solder stations

I thought the same thing but its actually pretty logical... the colored buttons match the colors of the respective trace makes it easier to know which one is ch 1, ch2 so on...

it can also be tied into ethernet... allowing web browesr access... the math functions are pretty neat... I didnt find the FFT option to be very useful as its more for frq ranges above 5khz :\

I do love how light it is... makes it much easier to deal with especially when working on a console... dont have to worry about the weight sitting on the desk...

ive seen and used the monochrome LCD versions.. I never really cared for them as the speed of the display wasnt very good... this one is all in a different league though..

it also has this cool feature called wavealert.... what it does is store or stop the meausrement when something exceeds a certain limit.. kinda cool if your looking for a glitch that is intermittent... can just set it up goto bed and hopefully you have a capture of the glitch the next day

still... its hard to justify a $5k price tag :\

it also has this cool feature called wavealert.... what it does is store or stop the meausrement when something exceeds a certain limit.. kinda cool if your looking for a glitch that is intermittent... can just set it up goto bed and hopefully you have a capture of the glitch the next day

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That's cool ! I mean, I've been wanting to record my nightly snorting for some time now, but haven't got to it yet. :wink:
This box may do the trick... does it export to .wav ? :thumb: