It really is true ... for audio recording, it is likely going to save you money and heartache to just use standalone devices intended for audio.
Reminds me of this one time two of us were recording a show. At the time I just had a small rig (AT 853s>R-09HR) and my friend was running Neumanns+SBD into an R-44. In the meantime, these jokers from some college radio station were there also recording. They proceeded to tell us how bad-ass they were and how knowledgable and amazing they were about recording because they do in-studio interviews and sessions occasionally. They had all kinds of gear - a Macbook Pro running logic, a 24-track standalone digital mixer, and some Nak300s on a stand (placed totally incorrectly, of course)... oh and a video camera. Their mics weren't anything great but it was still a way more complex rig than we had.
About five-ten minutes into the show I remember looking over and seeing them frantically pointing at each other and the screen, trading the headphones back and forth, hitting all manner of combinations of keys.
Turns out their bad-ass computer recording system crapped out, and they didn't properly attenuate these amazing 24 tracks of audio anyway... so they wound up the night asking if, uh, maybe we'd be nice enough to let them "use the audio" from the R-44 pull...
It's a parable about several different truths in recording, but I think one is, sometimes simpler is better, esp now that a $99 deck can do what you want it to do.