![]() Prospective buyers of used WavePro 7000(A) and WaveRunner 6000(A) scopes should really stay away from a scope equipped with MS-32 at all costs, because not only does the MSO option perform badly, the scope will refuse to boot if the MS-32 adapter isn't connected if the MSO option is installed. MS-32 was exactly that, MSO as an afterthought. MS-32 performed badly (and with 'bad' I mean really bad!), and even worse its problems were inherent in its design and therefore couldn't be fixed through software updates. For that they bought in some MSO adapter called MS-32 which connects to the scope's BNC input and to its USB port. ![]() However, there is an exception: after LeCroy came out with the WavePro 7000 and WaveRunner 6000 scopes they also wanted to offer MSO capabilities. On the WS3000 it's pretty much an integral part of the scope, not an afterthought, and that is also the case for other LeCroy X-Stream (Windows) scopes. Plus the WaveSurfer 3000 is noticably cheaper than the DSOX3kT.Not that important, but the WaveSurfer has four (2x front, 2x rear) USB host ports (Keysight two, one front one rear).LAN is standard on the WaveSurfer 3000 while it's a $400 option on the already expensive DSO3kT.Integrated AWG: 25MHz 125MSa/s 14bit with 16kpts on the WaveSurfer, 20MHz 100MSa/s 10bit with 8kpts on the DSOX3kT (both not great, but still).The WaveSurfer 3000 uses the same probe interface (ProBus) all midrange and high-end scope from LeCroy use since the mid '90s, which means there's a wide range of suitable active probes out there, including a lot of second-hand ones which often sell for reasonable prices because they don't carry the "Tektronix" or "Agilent" label.The DSOX3kT also doesn't offer anything comparable to LabNotebook, which is a documentation tool and pretty neat if you have to document your measurements in some standardized format.The DSOX3kT has nothing comparable to WaveScan, which is a very versatile tool to find rare glitches and other issues and which works 'live' as well as on sampled data.Unlike the DSOX3kT, which feature-wise is not that much better than the DSOX2k, the WaveSurfer 3000 has many features that can be found in LeCroy's high-end scopes, i.e. ![]()
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