We too have a Zoom H4 and so far it's a treat to work with. We've recorded an interview (most unobtrusive) and some music. Controls are a little small and fiddly, but then so were the controls on the minidisk, and this has so much more potential. We did, though, immediately upgrade to a 2GB memory card, because the one that comes with the machine doesn't hold much.

For anyone reading this in the UK - we bought from the US via eBay and somehow or other the vendor managed to avoid us having to pay any duty on it. Which meant what we paid was a real bargain compared to UK prices (which generally seem to be the same as dollar prices and therefore twice as much).

Anne