>My H4n should be in my hands on this coming Tuesday. I'll be using it 
>fairly quickly as I have a project coming up to use it on.
>The sale came at the right time. I've looked on and off for a replacement 
>for my loooonnnng dead portable DAT machine.
>The H4n should do nicely.

I've had an H4n for a long time now. It’s a remarkable machine, no doubt.. 
Just be careful about putting in line-level signals.
Perhaps they have sorted this out by now (I haven't checked), but, the input 
is calibrated for a mic level signal. I bought an inline passive attenuator 
for when I want to record a hot signal from a board.

These days, I've been using my H4n to capture school lectures. It does that 
well too!
DAT is dead, Long Live DAT!

-Matt S