Might as well buy the OEM gear.
This is a Chinese unit, which seems to be used by AEQ as well.
http://www.aeq.eu/products/digital-portable-recorder
We should figure out which Chinese factory makes the thing and buy 100 of them, and get them branded as the TS.com DAR1000x. I bet we could get the price down to the m10 range, which, given the specs, seems just about right.
Just because the LINO looks like the AEQ unit, does not mean that it is the same.
The body may be the same, but the internal electronics would have been specified by Nagra and to Nagra specs.
Yes, they have gone down the route of having an affordable recorder made in China, but the quality of the mic. pres. ADC, DAC, etc. would have been specified by Nagra.
I think they took a standard unit, modified it to their requirements and then had the factory build it to Nagra spec. - it definitely will not be the same internally as the AEQ unit.
They did the same thing with the earlier ARES units, that were a Nagraised version of a standard unit.
That's the way Nagra can get a high quality portable unit at a reasonable cost.