HDD Recorder -- Need help/advice

[Confused in Colorado]

I'm putting this question out here because I respect all of the experts on this board.

I have decided against HI MD because of the limited functionality with respect to quickly upload, edit and export high-quality live recordings (my main use for one).

So now I'm looking at Hard Drive players and am not sure which ones can do what I'm after. I know the Iriver120 can make high quality recordings using an external mic, but are there others? (I do not want to have to use a seperate preamplifier)? Who else makse such thing? Can the archos players accept a non-amplified mic and produce decent recordings? Any from Rio or Creative?

I know this is the HIMD forum, but I'm not sure who else to ask. Thanks in advance!

[Christopher]

I'll move this to the relevant forum. I would look into the Creative Nomad Jukebox 3, btw.

[Christopher]

..does anyone have any tips or advice for this gentleman? To put it lightly, he is quite frustrated and would like some opinions.

[jadeclaw]

I don't know, how much he wants to invest, but in my opinion, his usage profile points to this one:

http://www.d-mpro.com/users/folder.asp?Fol...18&SubCatID=169

(Warning! Server is slow, they are using Windows for webserving)

[sony_man]

(kurisu's approach) if you dont have a low budget than get the iriver ihp20 or 40 (20 or 40 stating the amount of gigs) these things are jam pack with features. they have a line out jack, a voice recorder, fm tuner, 3 line fully functional remote, 20-40 gigs, 1.5 inch screen, 16 hour battery life (twice as long as ipods), andits smaller than the nomad.