>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