I can't bear to throw out my VRDS10 but I can't justify keeping it just because it looks good on the shelf.
Also during my encounters with my MF X-Ray, one piece of advice I kept getting from the kind folk on here was that I should be using an oscilloscope.
The recommendations seemed to be for an analogue one. I do have an old Telequipment one but it has no X-Y facility which I need according to the Teac service manual.
I have made a shortlist of the ones below. Chosen because I have read good things about them online regarding build and seem to have been popular/good enough in their day to be well documented today with a good fanbase. I would appreciate any input.
Hameg HM-605 (with component tester built in)
Hameg HM-1005 (similar to the 605 but without built in tester but I imagine an external octopus would address this?)
Tektronix 2235/2236 ('ruggedized' scope supplied to military?)
Tektronix 465* (*not sure which version would be best suited)
I like the Hameg offerings as their support (even for scopes decades old) is reported to be good and helpful and parts are still readily available as much of them are standard 'off the shelf' items.
I like the look of the Tektronix scopes because of the nature of the environment they may have been expected to work in and therefore would hope that translates into 'reliable'. Also there seems to be a lot of knowledge out there about common issues such as power supply and how to fix it. I don't mind having problems so much if they can be fixed.
I imagine I wouldn't be working on anything much other than audio equipment, (CD, Amplifiers, Tuners, maybe DVD etc)
Any advice greatly appreciate.
Also during my encounters with my MF X-Ray, one piece of advice I kept getting from the kind folk on here was that I should be using an oscilloscope.
The recommendations seemed to be for an analogue one. I do have an old Telequipment one but it has no X-Y facility which I need according to the Teac service manual.
I have made a shortlist of the ones below. Chosen because I have read good things about them online regarding build and seem to have been popular/good enough in their day to be well documented today with a good fanbase. I would appreciate any input.
Hameg HM-605 (with component tester built in)
Hameg HM-1005 (similar to the 605 but without built in tester but I imagine an external octopus would address this?)
Tektronix 2235/2236 ('ruggedized' scope supplied to military?)
Tektronix 465* (*not sure which version would be best suited)
I like the Hameg offerings as their support (even for scopes decades old) is reported to be good and helpful and parts are still readily available as much of them are standard 'off the shelf' items.
I like the look of the Tektronix scopes because of the nature of the environment they may have been expected to work in and therefore would hope that translates into 'reliable'. Also there seems to be a lot of knowledge out there about common issues such as power supply and how to fix it. I don't mind having problems so much if they can be fixed.
I imagine I wouldn't be working on anything much other than audio equipment, (CD, Amplifiers, Tuners, maybe DVD etc)
Any advice greatly appreciate.