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>>I've got the Zoom H2 and I'm happy with it.<< is that the tiny cheap one that records surround-sound with it's four built-in mics? gives you a choice of mp3 or wav for stereo, & can use either pair or all four in a pseudo-surround mode when making mp3, while genuine surround is wav only... nice machine. I've had mine for about two months, & have used it to make all of these variations, onto a 4GB card. made a full four wav surround recording of a recent gig in a church in philly, filled the 4GB card.... it's great being able to adjust the "amount of church" in the stereo mixdown, & I'm looking forward to attempting a 5.1 version of same. I like it's little hat for outdoors too. but it feels so light & insubstantial.... battery life is reasonable..... I wish I could figure out how to summon the backlight without actually adjusting anything.... two counters- one for rec time & one for rec remain..... decent metering with overload indicator.... one tiny problem- even with careful adjustment of the record level, it's possible to overdrive the unit when making line-in recordings, because there's a pre-amp or something between the line-in socket & the level control VCA. that said, the mixer it was recording from is a behringer rackmount job (one of the new-ish ones, & pretty good at it's job) that has an extremely hot main output. I don't use the USB connection, preferring to take the card out & stick it straight into an adaptor & thence the mac. the files open in i-tunes & can be renamed, burned to disc, whatever. there's surprisingly little handling noise, given the plasticky construction, & there's a three-setting hardware sensitivity switch for the built-in mics. I have made recordings from the "loudspeaker" in a cellphone, holding the two gadgets about 18" apart; only the left channel of the zoom seems to be affected by the familiar cellphone digital chatter. I think the Faraday cage affair around the mics is better grounded at one side, maybe. the capsules themselves are standard issue- what do you want for this price? :-) very impressed, overall, at this price-point. we have come a long way from the sony WM-R2...... (their first recording walkman, & yes, I have one!) duncan.