Congrats.. I got mine yesterday...It's a wonderful machine... light and powerfull sound... The model that I got is an european one, so i hacked it to get the high volume... and I am making some back ups of my old discs recorded with my R-900 and then record them in a HI MD. I like the display, the way I charge the battery, the quality of the sound of the recordedconversations and enviroment sounds... I love my new machine... It has converted to my third arm because I never take it off from me... Here in Chile, at one of the local sony store, the sales man told me that I was getting the last one from 10 machines they got during the week... (that probably explain that Chile is mentioned in the user manual).