I have roughly 5 years experience as an amateur home studio operator.
(I listen to music constantly, and I read about the subject daily).
I record rock, pop, folk, blues etc.
In my opinion, the unit is good enough for my ears, and good enough for what I wanted to achieve.
I only traded up because I got a crazy deal on a Vs-2000, and I like the ability to use keyboard / monitor / and mouse.
Otherwise, I would have stayed with the Br1600. I missed the Br1600 so much when I traded it in, that I convinced my brother to go buy it back.
So now I have access to both great machines.
I think they pre-amps are great. As I mentioned earlier, check out the demo songs on the unit, they sound good.
There are other people on this bbs that have really done some good stuff with it. Last year somebody did a Christmas song, and it turned out fantastic. Maybe that person could post it again this year !
I think the song was sung in another language.
Was it you Kevin1600 who posted that ?