Sound is pretty excellent

I absolutely love the stereo sound that thing delivers.

The sound seems quite good as well

If the sounds you are recording are relatively loud, then you should be okay with this alone

For my own experience with it, the pre-amp or converters it uses are noisy, and to record professionally with this unit, you need to cleanly boost the signal going into it, For instance, if you try to record a relatively quiet sound such as foot steps, without a pre-amp boost, you will have to turn up the gain on this unit and that will create excessive noise into the recording

Maybe this is good as it can get, but the tiny tiny speaker on my iPhone sounds much better.

Great sound

Use it as a back up for filming weddings and the sound is clear and sounds good.

it produces beautiful-sounding recordings

Didn't know anything about it and was easy to use and gets amazing sound

I expected good recording sound from my external mics but was surprised by the sound from the included X/Y mic

The best consumer sound recorder on the market, the Zoom H5 offers professional features in a compact and convenient package

great sound so far, love having all the channels

Awesome quality sound

I was really excited about the multi-track capabilities, but the lack of dynamics and colored sound make this not worth the price

The sound is so much better than I expected

Amazing sound

Easy to use and records great sound

The mikes have to be tapped to start recording no matter how loud the sound is.

Beautiful, wonderful sound

(The software layer is critical because of the natural annoying sounds like plosives, breath sounds, and coughs that are super annoying - we're going to standardize on RX 6 software for this function).

This always beats the camera's mic and you don't get all that annoying audience sound.

The mic preamps sound really good and can give you a good recorded sound