I purchased the MZ-RH1 last autumn and I'm sooo pleased with it. I'm not going to elaborate why I totally love it, Spiff did it so well and I'll just add that MD and HIMD above all represents versatility: record, listen and keep recordings elsewere than in your player or computer. This is particularly important for me since I use my MD recorder doing fieldwork in social science. If my MD recorder get stolen at least my recordings survive. Enough about the ups. My only quarrel (besides Sonic Stage...) is with the industry in not supplying HIMD discs. I live in Sweden and there are no HIMD discs to be found. When I ask around the people in the audio stores stare at me as if I had a third eye in my forehead. Why are there no discs around!? The latest discs from Sony are only available in the UK or Germany why not in Sweden? Does this problem exist in other countries as well?