Finally, a high quality inexpensive audio recorder
The Zoom H2. Here’s a competent review. Back in the day when digital voice recorders finally came out, I was pretty excited to get my Olympus stereo recorder. I could upload recordings on to my computer and encode them to MP3. Unfortunately, the sound quality was always in want. If you wanted better quality you’d have to get a digital audio cassette recorder or go for a reel. Marantz had a unit but they were always too pricy (>$500). I’m glad to see that there’s a portable unit out on the market now that isn’t hindered by lousy recording quality. This one can do the full spectrum 44.1Khz sampling at 16bits all the way up to a hi-fi 96Khz/24bit resolution. And it’s not made by Sony, which means industry standard SD flash card compatible. 
Unfortunately I have no use for something like this right now. Would’ve been great in college.