I've been using the MR16 for about a month now, recording mainly acoustic instruments and vocals.
I think it's perhaps easier to deal with it's faults first and get them out of he way.

1: The small LCD screen recessed into the top panal. This is dificult to view unless you'r sitting directly over the unit. I found I was having to prop it up at the back with a few books to tilt it forward.

2: Input EQ consists of choosing from about 30 or so presets. It would have liked, say a 7 band graphic equlizer to
play with.

3: The unit has a 40 gig hard drive but it's surprising how fast it fills up. Unfortunately the only way to free up space is to format the whole drive. Deleting tracks or songs only turns them into hidden files and does not free dard drive space.
You therefore need to back up everything onto a PC.

What about it's good points.

A well laid out control panal, sliders, rotary controls all feel good, with most having a single function. The menu system is straight forward and the whole recording process quite easy.
Takes about half an hour to learn how to use it

Sound quality: (this is what really matters) Superb, it's difficult to find any fault with this. Friends have described it as “Too clear man, it needs dirtying up, I can hear all your mistakes”.
Using decent mics, if you can't get a good sound out of it you'r doing something wrong.

Marks out of 10: overall 9.
For sound quality alone 10.

If I dropped it and broke it, would I buy it again? Absolutely yes.

Paul Sumner.