GC-MS/MS comparison - Agilent 7010 vs TSQ 8000 Evo

[LAX]

Greets to all reading this,

I'm curios to hear your opinions on the technical specs and all other imaginable pros and cons of the following devices:

Agilent 7010 Triple Quadrupole GC/MS

Thermo Scientific TSQ 8000 Evo Triple Quadrupole GC-MS/MS

I'm new to the MS and am looking to get a modern all-round GC-MS/MS device for food processing research.

You can also recommend adequate alternatives to the above-mentioned two.

The salesmen around here will tell you anything to close a deal so I'm turning to a broader international community of GCMSMS experts looking for a piece of unbiased advice.

Thank you in advance!

[splean]

Don't start from the specs side, the numbers are not so important at the moment as robustness and uptime. Ask your colleagues from food labs in your region about application and service support in your particular region. By the way, there are two more vendors of GC-MS/MS: Shimadzu with GCMS-TQ8040 and Bruker with Scion TQ.

[James_Ball]

We have the Agilent 7000QQQ and so far it has performed well for us. I can't offer comparison because it is the only GC/MSMS I have used.

More than just the instrument, be sure to get time to work with the software for each to see how you like it. Most have a different approach to how they do thing, and what one person likes, another may hate when it comes to software design.

If you can visit a trade show similar to Pittcon where you can view all the different units along with getting some time on the software it helps when deciding on which to purchase.

[zelda855]

Agilent 7010 is the best

[Mdalmaijer]

I have had two Varian 2000 ion traps that do MS/MS, two Varian 320 triple quadrupole instruments and now have 2 Bruker Scion triple quadrupole instruments.

The Bruker Scion triple quadrupole instruments have been by far the best for performance. Ion traps are very sensitive but not suitable in a production lab unless you can do perfect matrix-matching. The 320 instruments had reliability issues and now you won't find parts.

The Bruker instruments have been fairly reliable but not stellar (one is now down and Bruker can seem to get the part in for 2 weeks now) however sensitivity is excellent and they are very easy to clean and change filaments. Cost was also excellent.

I have no personal experience with the other instruments.

Its best to have each vendor run some of your extracts.