TSP

In this episode Shahriar reviews the Rohde & Shwarz RTB2004 10-Bit oscilloscope. With its high-resolution touch-screen, intuitive and capable GUI as well as excellent analog/digital performance this scope competes very well against other 2000 series instruments from Tektronix and Keysight. This extensive review includes instrument teardown, overview and dedicated experiments as follows:
01:17 - Model comparison and R&S scope lineup.
02:20 - Front panel, rear panel and overview.
05:01 - Instrument teardown and analysis.
13:37 - Power on and basic functions including intensity grading, XY mode.
26:29 - Multi-tone behavior, FFT and ADC performance.
33:17 - Experiment with ambient light follower: Analog and RS232 digital serial capture, triggering and analysis.
48:03 - Experiment with external DAC: Analog and I2C data capture and search using remote web interface.
57:19 - Built-in arbitrary waveform generator behavior and performance.
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*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!*

[@valerondany2371]

Hello! Can you help me? I have an FSP13 spectrum analyzer. Its input mixer is faulty, I cannot determine the mixer model, part number.

[@kenwallace6493]

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.

[@Dhamian]

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

[@galileo_rs]

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.

[@zhoeon]

As always your reviews are clear and exhaustive; please keep them coming and include me in the draw!

[@gpcgamerTV]

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!

[@williammiller5490]

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.

[@LarrysMachineShop]

Awesome review, and thanks, indeed pushed me to actually go buy this unit. I trust your reviews better than any others.

[@jassimjaved3309]

You're so knowledgable and smart! Loving these reviews!

[@SJFOM]

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!

[@bradfordthorne]

Thank you for providing such consistent in-depth content - every video is a treat. I would love to be considered for the scope.

[@thedill1984]

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!

[@andycooper1684]

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.

[@Voteformiles10]

Excellent review as always. I'm often recommending your videos to friends at uni.

[@nxt-1]

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.

[@semidemiurge]

A very comprehensive review, the time you take to do these is very much appreciated. Please add me to this list.

[@sporqer]

Please enter me in the draw! Very insightful teardown of the scope, manufacturing quality of this unit is very good!

[@HarblesTheSkeptial]

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 KZbin. 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.

[@InXLsisDeo]

Damn, that scope looks dope ! You are by far the best T&M equipment reviewer out there. Anyway, entering for the draw ! :)

[@nmrgrnm]

In for the draw and congratualtions on a really comprehensive review!

[@Nathan-qn9ec]

Excellent content as always Shahriar. Count me in for the drawing!

[@GrubiBG]

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.

[@xisente]

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!

[@theworldaccordingtome6448]

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.

[@paulapappelbaum6983]

That was a nice tour through what the scope offers! And finally a quiet scope... Please also include me in the draw.

[@glenyeldho5782]

Awesome video ! Only one KZbinr that test the gears up to it's bones ! I am interested in this scope

[@kb65342]

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.

[@emi22n]

Thank you for this chance and congratulations to any winner, I think it's a very exciting oscilloscope.

[@funkimunky1]

The review was great. All your videos are really helping with me getting into electronics. I would love to get this scope.

[@DmitriIvanov]

Thanks for tearing down the equipment when you review it, really makes it something special!

[@eskwadrat]

Excellent video along with FPS1500 review helped me to familiarize with both R&S instruments quickly. Thank you.

[@killincards]

This mso would really help my career in making consumer electronics. Thank you for the opertunity.

[@doscucharas]

Please enter me into the draw. Truly awesome review and it looks like a great scope indeed.

[@jirikonop1354]

Hi, very nice instrument and very nice review. I love the Rohde&Schwarz instruments :-)!

[@jgalbreath]

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.

[@stergeon8272]

As usual, great video! This scope excites me. Definitely enter me in the draw :)

[@jonathankatz6804]

may as well throw my name in the hat as well, been watching for a few years now, keep up the excellent work

[@BoydWaters]

I am still learning from this single video. Super grateful thanks!

[@djhatton]

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!

[@maukka1187]

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.

[@rattnallen0]

Great teardown/review! The scope would fit nicely on my bench so please include me in the draw.

[@raviteza8]

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.

[@Iaretibu]

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!

[@martinpastva7989]

I'd like to enter the draw. Thanks for the review and other advanced videos, great work!

[@aidanfransen3571]

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

[@nic_muses]

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.

[@catt87]

As always, a very nice review. Thanks for this, really enjoyed it.

[@22icyo]

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 )

[@jpdiagnosys840]

Ia

[@PauiComa]

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 :)

[@KerryWongBlog]

Thanks for staying up all night and prepare this video!

[@muttleysnickers6228]

Thank you R&S and Shahriar for a great review as always, please include me as a contestant, many thanks.

[@cmuller1441]

Another great video from TSP. You can add me in the draw. This would definitely be a great replacement for my cheap usb scope.

[@gishageorge8492]

Thanks a ton for the opportunity for a student like me to have a go at owning one of these.........

[@belguimbeta]

Great review! Count me in for the draw

[@davidgreaves9787]

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.

[@StuartCGadgetRev]

That’s a nice scope.. thanks for the detailed review

[@dimmog]

Scopes are gorgeous nowadays especially Rohde & Schwarz. Very cool review Shahriar! Please included me in the drawing. Thanks

[@ferranespigares]

Yes! I want to enter the draw, thank you Shahriar. :)

[@bongolongoallthetime]

I'd like to get one too... I'm a follower of TSP since the beginning, I really appreciate the quality of your content.

[@233kosta]

OK, colour me impressed. That single board solution is very elegant!

[@markfritz6549]

This would an awesome addition to my lab, great video as always

[@jct4647]

Thanks, that was an excellent review - I am definitely entering the draw.

[@Instrumentals-music]

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!

[@bobfuller]

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.

[@davidnewell5376]

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.

[@miroslawwlodkowski256]

Count me in please, crossing my fingers... may get lucky :). Great scope by the way and MSO.. so exciting

[@TheKubux]

I would live to enter the draw. Awesome unit, the MSO capability would save me a lot of time recently.

[@nplanel]

Very good video as always ! hope it's not too late to be part of the draw :)

[@quantumbubbles2106]

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!

[@necetraay9860]

Please enter me in the draw as well. Love your videos, especially how you show how it functions with various applications during reviews.

[@KX36]

love the UI. Especially the labelled axes on the FFT. Wish more manufacturers did that.

[@ValentinVoigt]

Awesome video as usual! Very nice scope, too. I'd like to be included in the draw as well. :)

[@3ktonn]

Thanks for the great review! The instrument is really nice!

[@sheffieldhoney]

Love to enter the draw - many thanks Jez

[@masonyu9476]

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!

[@MrAtomicLlama]

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!

[@lucrativesasquatch2539]

As usual, great review... Please count me in!

[@DL7PNP]

I would love to do some RF related experiments with this great scope. As always, thank you for the inspiring video! :)

[@plemli]

Thanks for the thorough demonstration, and even though that would take away some of the unpacking surprise, please count me in on the giveaway.

[@ddcc]

Great review, I've also been recently catching on some of your older videos as well. I'm a student and would definitely like to enter the draw. Thanks!

[@6alecapristrudel]

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.

[@justinshears879]

Thanks for great review of the R&S Scope, I'm new to electronics and it is mind boggling the stuff you talk about but very interesting, I have a few old R&S equipment but would love to own a new one, so please allow me to enter the draw. Many Thanks

[@agaelema]

Excellent review and teardown, this oscilloscope is an awesome instrument. Please, include me in the draw.

[@JustinDavidow]

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

[@valordk]

As always, great review Shahriar. I'm in. Could be great to replace my old scope :)

[@artelse]

Excellent video as usual, I learn a lot from your vids, tha ks! Ah the glitch.. enter into the draw, will give it to my school.

[@mikepeterson3259]

I always look forward to your videos and walk away with something new learned. I would appreciate it if I could be placed in the drawing for the new scope, as it would be a great addition to the bench!

[@aperturecontrols7463]

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.

[@kissingfrogs]

I would like it but cant say I really need it. Great video by the way.

[@Matthias051]

Awesome video. Thank you so much. I need this scobe for my lab and servicetechnical work in the field...

[@MrMartinZockt]

Nice teardown and review as always. Please include me in the draw.

[@daveblane6442]

SHARIAR! you are a genius. and this 'scope? AWEsome

[@arcover2048]

Hi Shahriar, excellent review as always! Please include me in the draw as well.

[@VideoCMS78]

Very nice scope. I would like to be added to the draw and thank you for all of your excellent videos.

[@commonmogoreanu7135]

That's an awesome review. Thank you!

I would like to enter the draw. Great channel. I still can learn so much from channels like yours. Thank you.

[@danielhatch5347]

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.

[@jmp8026]

Awesome review. Contest entry please.

[@Wompylulz]

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

[@HORNET600MX]

I'm in! This is the perfect scope I was looking for...