[sdiy] Scope recommendations

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 8 Nov 2012, at 16:18, Ingo Debus wrote:

> 
> Am 08.11.2012 um 13:59 schrieb Bert Vermeulen:
> 
>> The rigol is slow when the
>> time base is long
> 
> What exactly is slow? The time between trigger event and display refresh?
> 
>> and the a sine wave looks if this is very distorted
>> (8bit), to my opinion not good for audio.
> 
> Well, there are digital scopes with more than 8 bits resolution, but I think these are very expensive. Most digital scopes are 8 bit.

Furthermore, they work fine for very slow waves, sine or otherwise. One of the advantages of my Owon scope over my earlier analog scope is that you can slow the scan down to LFO-speed and still see the *shape* of the whole waveform, instead of just a line going up and down. This has been very handy for debugging digital LFO and envelope projects.

T.