Guitarfxr, Thank you so much for this excellent review and detailed insights! VERY HIGHLY APPRECIATED!!! So much so that this is the first blog I've responded to, although I've reseached many. I was considering the DR-1 due to the warm , non-strident or digital sounding samples I'd heard, but that was before the 1.10 upgrade! You can pass that on to the TASCAM rep! I am a writer/musician who needs to record live performance and home ideas as well as demos on a pro quality computer friendly format. Looks like I may have to wait... Thanks again for such great writings!