This is a great price for a portable digital stereo recorder - mics sound much better than you'd think, the controls are simple and intuitive, and it's easy to get the recordings out of it via

Zoom can, then, even develop and sell the complementary mics (lapel, face boom, in hair, etc).I short, the preamp and the sample rate/bit depth is what makes this a great product -- that and the fact that it is really "handy".

The mics sound really good

YOu can insert lapell mics as well.