10/31/2008 for me. GREAT recorder!
Having said as much, mine has to go, making way for the new to me Alesis HD24!
Two channels was never enough with an iRiver, so that led to 2 iRivers... Syncing multiple clocks sucks!
That led to an R-44, 4 was cool for a while with a stereo pair onstage, but the interest of close mic'ing sources plus stage pair led to..
Zoom r-16, great deck despite not much love here on TS.com, but 8 isn't quite enough...
Since no one makes an 11 or 13 track recorder.... 24 it is!