RockBox not necessarily that good

For the Archos recorders, Rockbox doesn't support bitrates above 160/170kbps, and doesn't support CBR or uncompressed WAVs (well, more accurately the archos recorders don't support it).

It may be free but much of the hardware out there is not really designed for making professional recordings, etc. Some of the iriver's don't offer manual record levels either do they?