Dear Guitarfxr, Thank you for your investment !! I have almost all the information I needed and I think I will buy this DR-1... Only let me ask you a few questions : I play saxophone and flute and I often travel to India. I wish to have a pocket recording system for street sounds, trains, bhajan (songs in temples), accoustic musicians (wind instruments mainly but also tabla and sitar,...). Till now I was traveling with a pro tools MBOX 2 system but even if the configuration was very pleasant (very great sound thanks to a nice couple stereo mics) . I figured out it was a little heavy (and fragile too). As I am also a photographer, the "space" is getting more and more important in my decision of buying this or that...(Camera + lenses + flute + laptop + mbox2 + Neuman couple + tripod +...) I read in another forum that a shakuachi player (japanese flute) is using it for his own recoding and is very happy with this Tascam. Would you recommand this Tascam for all these purposes ? Thank you again for your help and forgive my lack of vocabulary and the grammar absurdities...I'm french but I could at least recognize the Andy Warhol reference ;-)
