Hello,
I have now 2 ut-61e. And I won't switch to any other multimeter (in this price range).
Indeed, first it's a 20000 count DMM. Of course it's not a precise 20000 counts. But 20000-counts multimeter is more precise than a 2000-counts multimeter and avoid switching range for a 10 times larger measure, or a 10 times smaller measure.
Second the usb-link from ut-61 to laptop is around 10eur and is very conveniant. There are very few with this possibility, at this price with its insulated link.
I test several claimed 0.01% resistors bought on ebay (but I'm not sure, it seems it was an old stock with unknown history). With 3 resistors, series connections and/or parallels connections every time 5 counts were missing : 9995 and not 10k, 19995, 4995, etc. There was about +/-1 or 2 count difference between the 2 multimeters. Theses errors seem to proof a light multimeter error, not an error of resistor value, but I don't have others material nor idea to proof this.
min/max switch on ut-61e is powerful : It actually the peak value during a very very short time (maybe 1ms or less), not the extreme values read on the multimeter : a mean on 0.5 second.
It seems that ut-71 is more expensive and older than the ut-61. Temperature measures seems the only missing tips on this ut-61e.
Hope this help you to choose !
F.