I have had good luck with the Panasonic RR-xs410. It tops out at 16/48khz, but in classical live recordings it has made very acceptable recordings, and I am a trained musician.

It is very small, about the same cost as the ones you are reviewing, and although it is marketed more as a voice recorder, it also does fine stereo music recordings and has many of the same features as these units, as well as having 4GB built in and coming with a rechargeable aaa.

The only issue I have had is that you must set levels carefully manually with the RR-xs410 to avoid slight clipping, even with the limiter option. If the levels are set properly, then there is no problem.

instead of any of these two, i bought the Sanyo Xacti XPS01M, because of it's size advantage. I hear the quality of this device is supposed to be at the same level or even a little btter than the two above.

now, I bought an Olympus ME15 lav mic, which is also supposed to be around the same quality as the Audio Technica. However, these mics sound flat, canny and produce a lot of noise.

can someone advice another mic that will work with these devices (not all mics work!) and isnt twice the price of this little thing. The Rode lavalier is 200... and then you even need a micon2 adapter, plus 20.

the sennheiser ME2 or 4 has a screw, dont think that looks nice...

so, does anyone have an idea for mounting the Sanyo? and in addition: any ideas on a windjammer for this tiny device?

then another thing: instead of using a shotgun mic, why not mount one of these devices on the camera for audio? use another one with a lav on a talent and you're set. what am i missing? is the omnidirectional character of the zoom/tascam/sanyo too much so you cant use it as a shotgun?

@WT - oddly when the Zoom H1 is in use, it lasts a long time. If you have a certain version, they say it will drain while powered off, but I believe they fixed that. You might run out of card space before you run out of battery. It uses a single AA and with an Eneloop it lasts and lasts...