I was planning on going just with the H4n and a pair of Church audio binaural mics, but Chris wasn't able to build them in time, so I will borrow a sonic studio DSM pair from a friend...
First impressions on the FR2 LE, built quality, very plastic... really, not sturdy, some parts even shake (my H4n is plastic, but robust, you don't feel this) the battery door is a design mistake, hard to change batteries... the menu system is very japanese, confusing, poor written software, you have to format the card in a specific file format, before start recording, if you have to change sampling format, you have to put another card... and choose if it is stereo or mono... incredible... the operating system is a nightmare... feels like windows... :-)
But the sound quality of the preamps is quite good, did some tests indoors with the rode and akg, you hear noise, but it comes from headphone amp, I can live with that, and also with the above... is this the price difference from the SD's? I mean you have to pay a lot for a decent operating system, robust build...
Anyway and despite all, I like the recorder, the main thing, preamps are very good... I will put it to test on the next days, until China...
Thank you for all the inputs...