Funnily enough, it was all the frantic KPA bashing that got me curious about the product to try it and then buy it. If they didn't come off as being so insanely defensive and jealous I would've just thought "ho hum, another digital toy". The sheer tone of panic in all the threads that I'd seen in other forums made me realise that all the talk is either 100% true and the KPA is a box of snot, OR, it's 100% false and the KPA is the duck's nuts!
Now I've got two, because I'm trapped several firmware updates behind on my first unit and I don't want to update it whilst I'm in the middle of a massive recording session. So I bought a second one so I could tinker and upgrade and play around without risk!