*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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 )
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!
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!
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.
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, 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.
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
I made the mistake and looked up the "affordable entry price point" that Shahriar mentioned at the beginning of the video for this 300MHz version of the scope. I don't know what I expected but it's an order of magnitude higher than for my DS1054Z. It surely would be nice to have something like that though, with the function generator and the logic analyzer built in and the higher sampling rate and bandwidth, but probably someone else can utilize it better than I do. It's a generous giveaway for sure.
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.
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!
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 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!!!!
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.
I haven't even watched a single second of the video yet, but judging by the comments alone I'd like to enter whatever contest is available to enter and if this oscilloscope is available in said contest and furthermore I hereby enter my name 49,000 times so that I have an about a 50/50 chance of winning it since this was not expressly forbidden. edit: Having watched the video, I'm still very impressed with the UI they have put together (after seeing it on Mike's channel). I would love to have an oscilloscope with this kind of capability! I am sure there are people who here who don't even have one oscilloscope as I do (the venerable Rigol 1054z), but I could really use the web-based functionality and even more helpful to my hobby work would be the ability to save and reproduce waveforms like that scope supports! Thanks as always for your great videos! I hope you get to 50k soon, slightly hurting my chances but putting you over a well-deserved threshold.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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 have a Hameg HMO1024 and you can really see the Rohde & Schwarz rebranding that the RTB2004 is building on from this platform. The touch interface looks like it adds a lot to the intuitive interface for the scope. Great that you demonstrated the mixed signal features of the scope as that is what I most like about the HMO1024. Being able to monitor an I2C, SPI or RS232 bus and at the same time probe around with one or 2 analogue channels is fantastic when messing with A2D or audio codecs. Please include me in the draw :-)
RTB - Right To Bypass the draw. Would be super nice to have, much less noisy than my TDS3014. Drooling a bit about the Arbitrary generator as it would be great for my ESR analyzer project - but, as Electroboom says in one of his vids: "A scope teaches you electronics". Well, I need to make some useful practical electronics - not learn more ;.) Best of luck to anyone into learning more about this fantastic world of science! Thanks to the signal path for your great video!
A great and detailed review. I'm now considering R&S instead of Siglent. Siglent does have a nice matt screen however so if anyone has a good fix for the glossy R&S screen, I'm all ears.
Really hope I could win this scope. I’m teaching my 9 year old electronics because he’s interested with it, almost as much as video games and nerf battles. With this I could make what’s happening visible, and that will go a long way with understanding. Then of course it would be terrific for everything else on the bench!
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!
Definitly better than the Rigol for my mixed signal investigations. Put me in the jar for the draw :) I was also wondering why I got not mail from patreon that you've done a new review.
Awesome scope. You can include me on the draw! I got into electronics watching videos on youtube, graduated on chemical engineering but working as a software developer and electronic enthusiast on for 5 years now. I've been reading the art of electronics for a while and always wanted to do some experiments with analog circuits, thank you for the content.
Perfect timing for this review. Been looking at this model for the last few weeks. Love the UI and the mixed signal capabilities. Looking to replace my ageing Rigol DS1102E with something much more capable. Only problem will be my son ‘borrowing’ it given he wants to start an Electronics Degree next year! Please add me to the raffle.
*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.
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!
You're so knowledgable and smart! Loving these reviews!
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
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.
Thanks for tearing down the equipment when you review it, really makes it something special!
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.
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.
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.
may as well throw my name in the hat as well, been watching for a few years now, keep up the excellent work
Thanks for staying up all night and prepare this video!
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.
Thank you for this chance and congratulations to any winner, I think it's a very exciting oscilloscope.
Thank you for providing such consistent in-depth content - every video is a treat. I would love to be considered for the scope.
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!
Damn, that scope looks dope !
You are by far the best T&M equipment reviewer out there. Anyway, entering for the draw ! :)
Awesome video ! Only one TH-camr that test the gears up to it's bones ! I am interested in this scope
I am still learning from this single video. Super grateful thanks!
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.
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.
Excellent review as always. I'm often recommending your videos to friends at uni.
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!
Thank you R&S and Shahriar for a great review as always, please include me as a contestant, many thanks.
I would like it but cant say I really need it. Great video by the way.
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.
In for the draw and congratualtions on a really comprehensive review!
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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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!
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!
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 :)
Excellent video along with FPS1500 review helped me to familiarize with both R&S instruments quickly. Thank you.
That was a nice tour through what the scope offers! And finally a quiet scope... Please also include me in the draw.
Excellent content as always Shahriar. Count me in for the drawing!
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.
Very good video as always !
hope it's not too late to be part of 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, 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.
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
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.
I made the mistake and looked up the "affordable entry price point" that Shahriar mentioned at the beginning of the video for this 300MHz version of the scope. I don't know what I expected but it's an order of magnitude higher than for my DS1054Z. It surely would be nice to have something like that though, with the function generator and the logic analyzer built in and the higher sampling rate and bandwidth, but probably someone else can utilize it better than I do. It's a generous giveaway for sure.
As always, a very nice review. Thanks for this, really enjoyed it.
I'd like to get one too...
I'm a follower of TSP since the beginning, I really appreciate the quality of your content.
The review was great. All your videos are really helping with me getting into electronics. I would love to get this 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.
love the UI. Especially the labelled axes on the FFT. Wish more manufacturers did that.
As usual, great video! This scope excites me. Definitely enter me in the draw :)
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.
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!
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!
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.
Scopes are gorgeous nowadays especially Rohde & Schwarz. Very cool review Shahriar! Please included me in the drawing. Thanks
This would an awesome addition to my lab, great video as always
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!!!!
OK, colour me impressed. That single board solution is very elegant!
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.
I haven't even watched a single second of the video yet, but judging by the comments alone I'd like to enter whatever contest is available to enter and if this oscilloscope is available in said contest and furthermore I hereby enter my name 49,000 times so that I have an about a 50/50 chance of winning it since this was not expressly forbidden.
edit: Having watched the video, I'm still very impressed with the UI they have put together (after seeing it on Mike's channel). I would love to have an oscilloscope with this kind of capability! I am sure there are people who here who don't even have one oscilloscope as I do (the venerable Rigol 1054z), but I could really use the web-based functionality and even more helpful to my hobby work would be the ability to save and reproduce waveforms like that scope supports!
Thanks as always for your great videos! I hope you get to 50k soon, slightly hurting my chances but putting you over a well-deserved threshold.
Please enter me in the draw! Very insightful teardown of the scope, manufacturing quality of this unit is very good!
Great teardown/review! The scope would fit nicely on my bench so please include me in the draw.
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.
I'd like to enter the draw. Thanks for the review and other advanced videos, great work!
Thanks, that was an excellent review - I am definitely entering the draw.
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
I'm in! This is the perfect scope I was looking for...
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.
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!
Please enter me into the draw. Truly awesome review and it looks like a great scope indeed.
I would live to enter the draw. Awesome unit, the MSO capability would save me a lot of time recently.
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.
Very impressive scope. Thanks for sharing.
Count me in please, crossing my fingers... may get lucky :). Great scope by the way and MSO.. so exciting
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.
My amateur radio club could really use this scope.
Thanks for the great videos
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.
Thanks for the great review! The instrument is really nice!
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!
I have a Hameg HMO1024 and you can really see the Rohde & Schwarz rebranding that the RTB2004 is building on from this platform. The touch interface looks like it adds a lot to the intuitive interface for the scope. Great that you demonstrated the mixed signal features of the scope as that is what I most like about the HMO1024. Being able to monitor an I2C, SPI or RS232 bus and at the same time probe around with one or 2 analogue channels is fantastic when messing with A2D or audio codecs.
Please include me in the draw :-)
Another great video from TSP. You can add me in the draw. This would definitely be a great replacement for my cheap usb scope.
RTB - Right To Bypass the draw. Would be super nice to have, much less noisy than my TDS3014. Drooling a bit about the Arbitrary generator as it would be great for my ESR analyzer project - but, as Electroboom says in one of his vids: "A scope teaches you electronics".
Well, I need to make some useful practical electronics - not learn more ;.)
Best of luck to anyone into learning more about this fantastic world of science!
Thanks to the signal path for your great video!
A great and detailed review. I'm now considering R&S instead of Siglent. Siglent does have a nice matt screen however so if anyone has a good fix for the glossy R&S screen, I'm all ears.
Thanks a ton for the opportunity for a student like me to have a go at owning one of these.........
Really hope I could win this scope. I’m teaching my 9 year old electronics because he’s interested with it, almost as much as video games and nerf battles. With this I could make what’s happening visible, and that will go a long way with understanding. Then of course it would be terrific for everything else on the bench!
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!
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.
Hi, very nice instrument and very nice review. I love the Rohde&Schwarz instruments :-)!
Definitly better than the Rigol for my mixed signal investigations. Put me in the jar for the draw :)
I was also wondering why I got not mail from patreon that you've done a new review.
I would love to get one of these Shahriar, especially if I can get it signed by your cat ! So count me in !
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
Yes please! I do need it and would very much appreciate it.
Please enter me in the draw as well. Love your videos, especially how you show how it functions with various applications during reviews.
SHARIAR! you are a genius. and this 'scope? AWEsome
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!
Awesome scope. You can include me on the draw! I got into electronics watching videos on youtube, graduated on chemical engineering but working as a software developer and electronic enthusiast on for 5 years now. I've been reading the art of electronics for a while and always wanted to do some experiments with analog circuits, thank you for the content.
As usual, great review... Please count me in!
Perfect timing for this review. Been looking at this model for the last few weeks. Love the UI and the mixed signal capabilities. Looking to replace my ageing Rigol DS1102E with something much more capable. Only problem will be my son ‘borrowing’ it given he wants to start an Electronics Degree next year!
Please add me to the raffle.
I would love to do some RF related experiments with this great scope. As always, thank you for the inspiring video! :)