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@Felthry

First or second, really. Teledyne LeCroy are shiny to look at, but super expensive for what you get, and don't always have the best UI.

I'll also put in a vote for Rohde and Schwarz, at least for the really really high-end gear.

@zetasyanthis our work got a LeCroy oscilloscope just recently and i have to say their UI is excellent, at least now

we haven't used any of their older equipment so it might be terrible, but their current one i would say has slightly better UI than Tek and on par with Keysight
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@Felthry

Oh, that's a nice change! :D

@zetasyanthis this might be why so much of their marketing material is "look how fantastic the UI is, we spent tons of time and effort making it as good as possible", and advertising their scopes as having MAUI, "Most Advanced UI"
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@Felthry

Yeah, sounds like they fixed that up a bit, which is great! And I think a lot of the trouble with UIs in the last little while is about dealing with just how much crap these devices can do now. O.o;

@zetasyanthis the big draw of LeCroy scopes right now are
- the 12-bit resolution
- the high channel count (seriously they have an 80-channel scope!! that is not an extraneous zero!!!!)
- *really* big screens to fit lots of data
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...I'm not an advantage of lecroy scopes that's just my signature
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@Felthry

How the fuck does one even... 80 channels??? *googles furiously*

@Felthry

I think my heart just fluttered a little. 20 channels @ 100 freaking GHz?????

@zetasyanthis *yes* it's completely absurd and i want one but there is no way in hell we'll ever be able to afford one
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@zetasyanthis i don't know how much they cost but i would assume millions
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@zetasyanthis they do also have more affordable (for a given value of affordable) 8-channel scopes, which is more than most though i think tek and keysight both have 8-channel options now too

and of course most scopes are available in an MSO form with like 16 or so digital channels in addition to the 4/8/80 analog channels
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@zetasyanthis logic analyzers are pretty handy sometimes!
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@Felthry

Oh yeah. Most of the work I've done is with MSOs, but I think the fastest scope I've ever cracked out was a 20GHz Tektronix unit.

@Felthry

Used to do some work in satellite comms with super precision timing. :)

The RF energy that entered the ADC card timestamped to within half a nanosecond on packetized output from an FPGA sort of stuff. (RF distribution these days is done via UDP multicast streams on high-speed networks.)