*Please note that a new firmware version has been made available since the recording of this video which addresses some of the issues I found in my review. Make sure you update your scope!*
I bought the RTB2004 based on this review. After two years, it has been the best scope I've ever used (sold my Tek). At the time it cost $4K, a very reasonable price.
Great review. This is by far one of the better reviews on a new scope I've seen in a great while. Please keep up the good work. I too would love to be considered to receive this scope. Thanks again.
You are obstructing the view ;) The image of all that test gear and the painting would make a great motivational poster. And yes, include me in the draw.
Great review as always Shahriar, got excited for the review when I saw it lurking in the background of your BK Precision repair. As a first scope this would make the perfect Christmas present - please include me in your draw!
Seems like a really nice piece of equipment! Of course I would also like to be included in the draw. I must say, I really enjoy these high quality reviews, so keep up the good work!
Nice, in depth review. What else can we ask for? (except for Santa to enter me in the draw) Good luck to those who entered and thanks for reviewing Shahriar.
This unit would be the become the centerpiece of my bench and so I would love to be considered for the draw. And thank you for showing such generosity to your viewers!
Another great video Shahriar. I stumbled across your channel a while ago and even though the material is often way above my head, your style makes it accessible and enjoyable. I currently have a beloved but cranky Tektronix 454 - the first scope I used 45+ years ago - and even though it pains me to think about putting it out to pasture, the RTB2004 would look good on my bench :-). Keep up the good work.
I enjoy your videos because they are very well done. The production values are very good, the headset mic, for example, is appreciated as it keeps your commentary very intelligible with a minimum of ambient room reverberation, fan noise, etc. The content is consistently excellent and always informative. I like the varying levels of detail you go into, sometimes just a layman level overview and sometimes exploring the complex minutia of any given topic. Yours is one of the best Electronics Vlog pages on TH-cam. You do seem adverse to showing your soldering techniques so if you haven't yet please make a video specifically on rework tips and tricks. Indeed I would be very pleased if Santa brought me a R&S RTB2004 for the imminent Solstice Celebrations.
FYI, if you want to change the "Edu. Mode" button, just press the small gear icon directly above the center vertical graticule. This allows you to select which shortcut buttons to have in the top-left toolbar.
As a poor Canadian student who has been saving pennies for a (far inferior) scope, receiving this R&S would be an incredible help. Please enter me in the draw! Thank you, both for the draw and for all of the amazing content that you create.
Hey Shahriar. Another excellent video! Really appreciate how much effort you put into generating experiments for us. I'm just starting to build up my lab. I really need a scope, but they're all a bit beyond my 'mi goreng' student budget at this stage. Having a box that would also serve as a fn gen and logic analyser would be a dream come true!
Sure, I'm mostly commenting to enter the draw, but I also want to say that was an awesome review and I'm sure many hours went into producing something so comprehensive but tightly presented.
As always, fantastic video. Educational and entertaining. Love the LED demo. An hour well spent. Thank you for all your great work. I'm not lucky, but please include me in the draw.
Hey Shahriar, thanks a lot for all the very in-depth video you have done through out the years, most of the time, they are way clearer than actual EE classes... (well mine anyway). I really hope you continue for a long time. (and please enter me in the draw )
Always been an electronics enthusiast and would love to be in the draw to have this scope as I start an Electronic and Computer Systems Engineering degree next year. Thanks for the review and keep up the good work. Cheers
Wow, what a G.U.I. ! and very responsive aswell. Nice review, I especially like it when you test the limits of the devices with your other high end signal sources and the explanations are comprehensive. Thanks. Please include me in the draw :)
Thanks for the great review, as always, and RTB2004 will be great add to my lab. Please include in the drawing :) If I missed review on the portable Scope RIders, will love to see those, too.
As always, I'm being late to the party, but hopefully not too late. As I grew up with Hameg (now R&S) scopes in school and at university, a dream would come true... Anyway, great review, Shahriar!
Wow, I don't have anything as useful or sophisticated as the R&S RTB2004 on my bench. It would be extremely beneficial in helping me understand all the different bus types and fault finding, so I'd love to take part in the draw, please. Really learn a lot from your videos.
Awesome review Shahriar! Always loved the German approach to test equipment; could really use a scope for various design + troubleshooting tasks! please include me in the draw! :D
Hey you are incredibly detailed in your videos I use them regularly for reference material. Yes I will be happy to participate in this drawing of this incredible piece of equipment.
This is a very nice scope - and it shows that you have spent a lot of time on the review - great job. Please put me in the draw and should I win it I will definitely use it.
This is scope is my dream... given that i can't get it for while its picture is now the wallpaper of my computer... would love to be considered into the draw. Who knows... my dream could come true! Btw, absolutely great review!!!!
Wow this scope is pretty amazing, I would like to be entered to the drawing as this would come in handy with my EE studies. And great video review by the way!
I'd like to enter the draw! X-Y mode looks amazing, and you get the waveforms themselves too! It would come pretty handy for my DIY electrochemical rig.
I study physics at university and I absolutely love electronics, my thesis will probably be on semiconductors! I would really love to have that unit and it will be very useful for may hobby and my career because I don't even own a scope right now! Thank you so much
We are two guys developing IoT using NXP LPC1788 and we would really make use of this kind of scope. We are currently using his older brother ... a Hameg 203 from 1994 :) . I must say that in X-Y mode , Lissajoux paterns look better on mine ... but that triggering on your is absolutely amazing ! Please count us in for your draw. Anyway whoever wins it - I wish him all the best. And btw...this is the review that your took a break to do a quick repair right ? Haha. Waiting for more repair videos.
Great review! It's amazing how all that functionality is put onto a single board compared to my "vintage" Tek 2235 analog scope. The video could've used more Pooch, though. ;) I'd like to be included.
Fantastic as always, Shahriar! Please enter me into the drawing. My cheap 2ch 70MHz Siglent has served me very well over the years, but given that I have since started to do projects on FPGAs (and, to a great part thanks to you, have even gotten into digital filter theory, so a better FFT and less quantization noise helps), it yearns for a replacement.
Great video as usual, and great scope. Since I'm still in the dark ages and manually wire my scope into my logic analyzer to do the analog/digital correlation, I'd like to be included in the drawing please! And thanks again for producing these!
Hi Shahriar, a question about the (apparent) 'unlocking' of the AM carrier frequency versus the modulation frequency at timestamp 21:47 in the video: wouldn’t it be possible that the problem is not the unlocking of the carrier frequency, but the limited resolution of the trigger? We are talking 1 Mhz vs 100 Hz (1:10,000) which means that only a minor variation in the triggering circuit (only 10 bit resolution 1:1024) would mean a (perceived) phase difference in the carrier signal, .. while the signals could very well be perfectly locked.
I work in the electronics field. wireless communication specifically. I am always trying to learn more since I have no formal education in this field. Your videos and thorough narration for these complex and intricate instruments has been invaluable in helping me on my knowledge quest! thanks for your hard work. The experiments you routinely create to demonstrate the capabilities of these instruments and their real world applications are elegant and informative. I've learned a great deal thanks to you so thanks again and please know I never have regretted my patreon pledge to you and your awesome channel. Please enter my name into the drawing, I hope wherever this thing lands it is put to good use!
Having struggled with my ancient 35MHz Hameg analogue 'scope this week it's become glaringly obvious it's utterly worn out and I need a new 'scope, it would make my Christmas, nay, my year if i were to win that R&S 'scope so please, count me in and enter me into the draw please. Oh, and thank you for the excellent videos, by far the most in depth and detailed reviews, teardowns etc I have found so far.
*Please note that a new firmware version has been made available since the recording of this video which addresses some of the issues I found in my review. Make sure you update your scope!*
Hello! Can you help me? I have an FSP13 spectrum analyzer. Its input mixer is faulty, I cannot determine the mixer model, part number.
I bought the RTB2004 based on this review. After two years, it has been the best scope I've ever used (sold my Tek). At the time it cost $4K, a very reasonable price.
Awesome review, and thanks, indeed pushed me to actually go buy this unit. I trust your reviews better than any others.
I would like to enter the draw. This is the most thorough and comprehensive review of this equipment I've seen so far! Thank you
You're so knowledgable and smart! Loving these reviews!
As always your reviews are clear and exhaustive; please keep them coming and include me in the draw!
A very comprehensive review, the time you take to do these is very much appreciated. Please add me to this list.
Great review. This is by far one of the better reviews on a new scope I've seen in a great while. Please keep up the good work. I too would love to be considered to receive this scope. Thanks again.
You are obstructing the view ;)
The image of all that test gear and the painting would make a great motivational poster.
And yes, include me in the draw.
Great review as always Shahriar, got excited for the review when I saw it lurking in the background of your BK Precision repair. As a first scope this would make the perfect Christmas present - please include me in your draw!
Seems like a really nice piece of equipment! Of course I would also like to be included in the draw. I must say, I really enjoy these high quality reviews, so keep up the good work!
may as well throw my name in the hat as well, been watching for a few years now, keep up the excellent work
Nice, in depth review. What else can we ask for? (except for Santa to enter me in the draw)
Good luck to those who entered and thanks for reviewing Shahriar.
This unit would be the become the centerpiece of my bench and so I would love to be considered for the draw. And thank you for showing such generosity to your viewers!
Thank you for providing such consistent in-depth content - every video is a treat. I would love to be considered for the scope.
Excellent review as always. I'm often recommending your videos to friends at uni.
Another great video Shahriar. I stumbled across your channel a while ago and even though the material is often way above my head, your style makes it accessible and enjoyable. I currently have a beloved but cranky Tektronix 454 - the first scope I used 45+ years ago - and even though it pains me to think about putting it out to pasture, the RTB2004 would look good on my bench :-). Keep up the good work.
I enjoy your videos because they are very well done.
The production values are very good, the headset mic, for example, is appreciated as it keeps your commentary very intelligible with a minimum of ambient room reverberation, fan noise, etc.
The content is consistently excellent and always informative. I like the varying levels of detail you go into, sometimes just a layman level overview and sometimes exploring the complex minutia of any given topic.
Yours is one of the best Electronics Vlog pages on TH-cam.
You do seem adverse to showing your soldering techniques so if you haven't yet please make a video specifically on rework tips and tricks.
Indeed I would be very pleased if Santa brought me a R&S RTB2004 for the imminent Solstice Celebrations.
Thanks for staying up all night and prepare this video!
Damn, that scope looks dope !
You are by far the best T&M equipment reviewer out there. Anyway, entering for the draw ! :)
In for the draw and congratualtions on a really comprehensive review!
Excellent content as always Shahriar. Count me in for the drawing!
Awesome video ! Only one TH-camr that test the gears up to it's bones ! I am interested in this scope
Thanks for tearing down the equipment when you review it, really makes it something special!
That was a nice tour through what the scope offers! And finally a quiet scope... Please also include me in the draw.
I am still learning from this single video. Super grateful thanks!
It seems like a lot of thought went into the design! Please put me in the drawing, this scope and the experiment you laid out really inspire me!
Please enter me in the draw! Very insightful teardown of the scope, manufacturing quality of this unit is very good!
FYI, if you want to change the "Edu. Mode" button, just press the small gear icon directly above the center vertical graticule. This allows you to select which shortcut buttons to have in the top-left toolbar.
As a poor Canadian student who has been saving pennies for a (far inferior) scope, receiving this R&S would be an incredible help.
Please enter me in the draw! Thank you, both for the draw and for all of the amazing content that you create.
Hey Shahriar. Another excellent video! Really appreciate how much effort you put into generating experiments for us. I'm just starting to build up my lab. I really need a scope, but they're all a bit beyond my 'mi goreng' student budget at this stage. Having a box that would also serve as a fn gen and logic analyser would be a dream come true!
The review was great. All your videos are really helping with me getting into electronics. I would love to get this scope.
Sure, I'm mostly commenting to enter the draw, but I also want to say that was an awesome review and I'm sure many hours went into producing something so comprehensive but tightly presented.
As always, fantastic video. Educational and entertaining. Love the LED demo. An hour well spent. Thank you for all your great work.
I'm not lucky, but please include me in the draw.
Hey Shahriar, thanks a lot for all the very in-depth video you have done through out the years, most of the time, they are way clearer than actual EE classes... (well mine anyway). I really hope you continue for a long time. (and please enter me in the draw )
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Always been an electronics enthusiast and would love to be in the draw to have this scope as I start an Electronic and Computer Systems Engineering degree next year. Thanks for the review and keep up the good work. Cheers
Wow, what a G.U.I. ! and very responsive aswell. Nice review, I especially like it when you test the limits of the devices with your other high end signal sources and the explanations are comprehensive. Thanks. Please include me in the draw :)
Thank you R&S and Shahriar for a great review as always, please include me as a contestant, many thanks.
Thank you for the extensive review. It would be awesome if I could be included in the draw. Thanks again for all your work, it is much appreciated.
Thanks for the great review, as always, and RTB2004 will be great add to my lab. Please include in the drawing :) If I missed review on the portable Scope RIders, will love to see those, too.
As always, I'm being late to the party, but hopefully not too late. As I grew up with Hameg (now R&S) scopes in school and at university, a dream would come true... Anyway, great review, Shahriar!
Excellent video along with FPS1500 review helped me to familiarize with both R&S instruments quickly. Thank you.
Wow, I don't have anything as useful or sophisticated as the R&S RTB2004 on my bench. It would be extremely beneficial in helping me understand all the different bus types and fault finding, so I'd love to take part in the draw, please. Really learn a lot from your videos.
Scopes are gorgeous nowadays especially Rohde & Schwarz. Very cool review Shahriar! Please included me in the drawing. Thanks
As always, a very nice review. Thanks for this, really enjoyed it.
OK, colour me impressed. That single board solution is very elegant!
Please enter me into the draw. Truly awesome review and it looks like a great scope indeed.
Thank you for this chance and congratulations to any winner, I think it's a very exciting oscilloscope.
As usual, great video! This scope excites me. Definitely enter me in the draw :)
Very good video as always !
hope it's not too late to be part of the draw :)
I'd like to enter the draw. Thanks for the review and other advanced videos, great work!
Great teardown/review! The scope would fit nicely on my bench so please include me in the draw.
love the UI. Especially the labelled axes on the FFT. Wish more manufacturers did that.
Awesome review Shahriar! Always loved the German approach to test equipment; could really use a scope for various design + troubleshooting tasks! please include me in the draw! :D
Thanks a ton for the opportunity for a student like me to have a go at owning one of these.........
Like your reviews and especially the RF stuff. You explain it so well. Yes, plz include me in the draw! I am looking for an entry level scope anyways.
I'd like to get one too...
I'm a follower of TSP since the beginning, I really appreciate the quality of your content.
Another great video from TSP. You can add me in the draw. This would definitely be a great replacement for my cheap usb scope.
Great review with some actual use cases! I'd like to enter the draw as well. The extra bits of vertical resolution would come in handy.
Hi, very nice instrument and very nice review. I love the Rohde&Schwarz instruments :-)!
Hey you are incredibly detailed in your videos I use them regularly for reference material. Yes I will be happy to participate in this drawing of this incredible piece of equipment.
This is a very nice scope - and it shows that you have spent a lot of time on the review - great job. Please put me in the draw and should I win it I will definitely use it.
As usual, great review... Please count me in!
I would like it but cant say I really need it. Great video by the way.
This would an awesome addition to my lab, great video as always
Yes, I would like to enter the draw! I have the R&S FSC6 spectrum analyzer for my RF hobby, the RTB2004 would be the perfect unit to have!
This is scope is my dream... given that i can't get it for while its picture is now the wallpaper of my computer... would love to be considered into the draw. Who knows... my dream could come true!
Btw, absolutely great review!!!!
Count me in please, crossing my fingers... may get lucky :). Great scope by the way and MSO.. so exciting
I would live to enter the draw. Awesome unit, the MSO capability would save me a lot of time recently.
Please enter me in the draw as well. Love your videos, especially how you show how it functions with various applications during reviews.
Yes! I want to enter the draw, thank you Shahriar. :)
Wow this scope is pretty amazing, I would like to be entered to the drawing as this would come in handy with my EE studies. And great video review by the way!
My amateur radio club could really use this scope.
Thanks for the great videos
Great review! Count me in for the draw
That’s a nice scope.. thanks for the detailed review
I'd like to enter the draw! X-Y mode looks amazing, and you get the waveforms themselves too! It would come pretty handy for my DIY electrochemical rig.
SHARIAR! you are a genius. and this 'scope? AWEsome
I study physics at university and I absolutely love electronics, my thesis will probably be on semiconductors! I would really love to have that unit and it will be very useful for may hobby and my career because I don't even own a scope right now! Thank you so much
That's a nice scope! I've already thought of so many uses for it that I'd have to put in my name for the draw!
Thanks for the great review! The instrument is really nice!
Awesome video as usual! Very nice scope, too. I'd like to be included in the draw as well. :)
We are two guys developing IoT using NXP LPC1788 and we would really make use of this kind of scope. We are currently using his older brother ... a Hameg 203 from 1994 :) . I must say that in X-Y mode , Lissajoux paterns look better on mine ... but that triggering on your is absolutely amazing ! Please count us in for your draw.
Anyway whoever wins it - I wish him all the best. And btw...this is the review that your took a break to do a quick repair right ? Haha. Waiting for more repair videos.
Great review! It's amazing how all that functionality is put onto a single board compared to my "vintage" Tek 2235 analog scope. The video could've used more Pooch, though. ;)
I'd like to be included.
Love to enter the draw - many thanks Jez
Fantastic as always, Shahriar! Please enter me into the drawing. My cheap 2ch 70MHz Siglent has served me very well over the years, but given that I have since started to do projects on FPGAs (and, to a great part thanks to you, have even gotten into digital filter theory, so a better FFT and less quantization noise helps), it yearns for a replacement.
Thanks, that was an excellent review - I am definitely entering the draw.
Thanks for the thorough demonstration, and even though that would take away some of the unpacking surprise, please count me in on the giveaway.
I'm in! This is the perfect scope I was looking for...
Great video as usual, and great scope. Since I'm still in the dark ages and manually wire my scope into my logic analyzer to do the analog/digital correlation, I'd like to be included in the drawing please! And thanks again for producing these!
Nice teardown and review as always. Please include me in the draw.
Hi Shahriar, a question about the (apparent) 'unlocking' of the AM carrier frequency versus the modulation frequency at timestamp 21:47 in the video: wouldn’t it be possible that the problem is not the unlocking of the carrier frequency, but the limited resolution of the trigger? We are talking 1 Mhz vs 100 Hz (1:10,000) which means that only a minor variation in the triggering circuit (only 10 bit resolution 1:1024) would mean a (perceived) phase difference in the carrier signal, .. while the signals could very well be perfectly locked.
I work in the electronics field. wireless communication specifically. I am always trying to learn more since I have no formal education in this field. Your videos and thorough narration for these complex and intricate instruments has been invaluable in helping me on my knowledge quest! thanks for your hard work. The experiments you routinely create to demonstrate the capabilities of these instruments and their real world applications are elegant and informative. I've learned a great deal thanks to you so thanks again and please know I never have regretted my patreon pledge to you and your awesome channel. Please enter my name into the drawing, I hope wherever this thing lands it is put to good use!
As always, great review Shahriar.
I'm in. Could be great to replace my old scope :)
Having struggled with my ancient 35MHz Hameg analogue 'scope this week it's become glaringly obvious it's utterly worn out and I need a new 'scope, it would make my Christmas, nay, my year if i were to win that R&S 'scope so please, count me in and enter me into the draw please.
Oh, and thank you for the excellent videos, by far the most in depth and detailed reviews, teardowns etc I have found so far.
Seems a really nice scope ! As a student in EE, i'd love to have a scope like this :-) thank's for the review anyway
Hi Shahriar, excellent review as always! Please include me in the draw as well.
Excellent review and teardown, this oscilloscope is an awesome instrument. Please, include me in the draw.
I would love to get one of these Shahriar, especially if I can get it signed by your cat ! So count me in !
Just stumbled on this channel, cool review and awesome scope. Count me in the draw!
Yes please! I do need it and would very much appreciate it.