Then you'll then know as much as I do, ;-) as I never got beyond the web search stage for the more expensive units. I found that a digital voice recorder that I bought at a closeout price, just to test things out, was adequate for my purposes, (mostly time shifting and archiving radio programs).
Looking for home recording equipment at Fry's and Best Buy was one of those strange "Can't you do this any more?" moments, finding that equipment for quality audio recording has disappeared from consumer electronics big box stores. Voice grade recorders, some MP-3 players, and video cameras, but no "reel-to-reel" grade standalone gear. (Turns out that people into making music and radio media use other equipment vendors).
groups.google censors email addresses as an anti-spam harvesting measure. When viewing news on the web site, (or in follow-up messages on the rest of the web), email addresses are replaced with a partial version with an ellipsis in the middle. I gather the only way for a reader on groups to send an email to the poster is through that clickable link, and someone with only a saved text copy of a follow-up is out of luck. As my ISP's anti-spam filters are adequate, it irritates me.
Mark Zenier snipped-for-privacy@eskimo.com Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)