Hello out there, this is a recorder, yes, a digital recorder - not one of those midget-screen playback gimmicks. In the hands of the ambitious recording enthusiast, it turns to an universal tool, almost a Swiss knife, as it is well capable to record even with low-level output microphones, but it may also be fed with a line-in signal from any microphone on a mixer/preamp/phantom power supply, from an amplifier's recording port, from a reel-to-reel tape recorder or a cassette tape deck, from a phono preamp, etc...
Sound quality is excellent, also in a home hi-fi setting when you take into account that this miniature marvel delivers 1,2 V from the headphone output and adjust the stereo amp accordingly.
I have recorded classical music with it, solo piano music, string chamber music, orchestras, choir singers and military wind bands, all with high-quality stereo microphones, and recently a glass harmonica with the built-in microphones, digitized radio broadcasts and LP records, I am using it in my car, at my office desk, and I enjoy my ripped CDs with full resolution wave files.
And it accepts ordinary and cheap AA batteries, does not require re-charging, will not suffer from battery aging, and is merely a very sober and clean tool than a overloaded toy.
