Incidentally Dark, you're not entirely right about not being able to pause and restart a recording. In his in depth review, Neal Ewers demonstrates how to do this.If you need to pause a recording in the middle you can apparently do so by hitting the Play bton once. Then when you're ready to unpause you can hit Play again and it should restart the recording. Granted the Power Timer might have a bearing on how long you can remain paused, but apparently you can actually do it. After listening to Neal's, Eric's, Jim's and Adelle's podcasts I'm realizing just how simple a machine the R09 is to use. I'm looking forward to owning one.