So, like most others here, I typically run my mics into a battery box and then into the line-in of my recorder. Up until now I have been using the MZ-RH1, but I have recently decided to go solid state. My eyes are on the Edirol R-09HR. ... But then I listened to some comparisons between the two recorders where external mics were fed into the mic-in and the MZ-RH1 seemed to have significantly less hiss / self-noise. Granted, I hardly ever use the mic-in, but such a comparison leads me to wonder whether the MZ-RH1's line-in is better than the Edirol's. Self-noise and hiss is a big factor to me, and I know line-in recordings generally have a lot less of this than mic-in recordings ... But I figured I would ask before I made my final decision.
Thanks! :-)