MJ Lorton did a very good 4 part review of the UT61E (link to part 1 below)
It seems to me that MJ Lorton is trying to compete face to face against Dave. He even got Kiriakos on his forum.
I jumped in this thread late but for others, take a look at the Amprobe AM-520 and AM-530. I got a AM-530 for review and I have found that it is quite good. Far better than the AM-240, which is about $10 less. Good features of the AM-530 include:
-A bargraph (a bit slow)
-High safety (CAT IV) -great for poking around the fusebox.
-A flashlight, handier than I thought
-mA and µA ranges, despite being branded as an "electrical contractor multimeter". These are in separate jacks
-True-RMS (530 only)
-0.1ºC resolution on the temperature range (very veeery handy for me, allows you to see small changes in temperature on heatsinks, etc.)
-Great construction, decent accessories, good probes, good manual and a cheapie carry case. It feels like a brick and weights like it's got useful things on the inside.
The bad?
-Average resolution for its price
-Not a good basic DC accuracy (0.8% vs. Fluke's 0.5% or UNI-T's 0.1%!) On AC it is more on-par: 1% vs. 3% vs. 0.8%.
-The screen has a bad viewing angle. It should be better considering it should be an electricians multimeter in theory. It has affected me when using the included velcro hanger.
-It has range switch positions for ºC and ºF but combines AC and DC volts. What sort of retarded logic is this? If ºF requires some sort of analog circuitry to adjust gain or something, it can be probably be enabled with a JFET or a 4066 like it's probably being done with the TRMS converter. If it is just changing a software lookup table, then this is even more retarded!
-No duty cycle. I find this function useful for PWM, but its limited bandwidth counting frequency (10MHz) explains why they didn't bother. But it's OK it only goes to 10MHz. Multimeters are not frequency counters. If you have to use a coax to banana adapter to measure frequency on your handheld DMM, you are doing it wrong!