I have a Sony A6--same transport as the R300, basically the same deck as the R300 other than the handling of scms. Mine died after not too many hours of use--the same transport related problems as have been discussed. I had Paul Plotnick of prodigital rebuild the transport and since that time it's been rock solid. Bottom line, the R300 had better be at least $225 less than another deck your looking at, since this is what prodigital will charge to do what sony should've done in the first place.