freelunch says: "It is the r09 and r09hr that are distorting the audio. There is no excuse for that."
I'm not an expert, but I wonder how can R09hr overload the line input, which has a nominal +2 db, and a max of +28 (as Guysonic measured); this is not +4, but neither -10, which is found in most consumer pocket recorder.
On ts there are a lot of posts of Digifish and others which run r09hr with external preamps (church audio, mixpre ecc.) with no particular issues.
I'n not doubting the fact, of course, just wondering how can it be and if there's a way of guessing how preamp+line in will be just by reading the specs.
thanks
c