The quality of the recordings is good. After a short settling time, the operation is easy, after you have familiarized yourself with the operation and menu structure. What I miss is an illumination of the display in the dark. For the price I would recommend this unit at any time. Have compared from different manufacturers to compare several notetaker. The sound quality of the equipment from Olympus, from this series, I liked best. A Philips device had a light; However, the response when the VOICE-activation was very bad spot.