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I liked the minidisc format! And I loved how many things they crammed into such tiny machines. I mean, it's dated now, and media's kinda difficult to find, but it was SO MUCH BETTER than cassette. It's too bad Sony kind of pooched it.

From what I'm reading, I very much like the Zooms. I've seen them in the wild, I just didn't know what they were. I like the H2 (which is pretty much a drop-in replacement for what I have now, but better in several ways, and! would work directly with my all-too-spendy minidisc mic) and I like the H4n too. I think I could grow into the H4n pretty easily.

According to the published specs, the H2's external mic jack is 1/8th inch stereo (exactly like the minidisc recorder), while the H4n (which replaced the H4) has 1/4" mono jack pairs and! phantom power! XLR! which is made of hotness. I could still use my current mic (with an adaptor) but I'd have a lot of flexibility. At substantially greater cost, of course. The H2 has advantages of price, size, and! 360-degree recording with the built-in mics! which the H4n doesn't do, and is tasty by itself.

Time to be thinky!