How Do the Cheaper Recorders Hold Up Against the More Expensive Recorders?

I don't have a single winner myself. Some of the recorders, just to me, don't sound very pleasant at all. None of them were brilliant. I think it's almost impossible to record the ocean really well. Even the cheapest recorder, which would be the Zoom H1N, I love that little recorder. You know, considering what 30 years ago you could have bought for $100, you couldn't buy anything. And the fact that you can buy a recorder that can record completely professional sound effects that I could drop into any $200 million movie without even batting an eyelash is quite fascinating to me.