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.........: a   cool   enough  sony  walkman  called :.........
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......:«:%          ###  tcm onefifty  ###          %:«:......
.....:«:%%                   # # #                  %%:«:.....
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...:«:%%#@ it's  battery powered (two aa batteries) @#%%:«:...
..:«:%%#@# and has a microphone. it  does feature a #@#%%:«:..
.:«:%%#@## speed hole but it's hidden  beneath  its ##@#%%:«:.
..:«:%%#@#                  shell.                  #@#%%:«:..
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....:«:%%# a cool  thing  is  the  speaker  on  the #%%:«:....
.....:«:%% front. but isn't  that a magnet close to %%:«:.....
......:«:%               the tape? yes              %:«:......
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........:«             ## is it good ##             «:........
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.......... well. it has some  very real compression ..........
.......... going  on so  close vox  and  other high ..........
.......... volume  things are  very crisp  and with ..........
.........: kind  of  low noise.  but  when  there's :.........
........:« more of  an  ambience, all  you hear  is «:........
.......:«:          hiss and motor noise.           :«:.......
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.....:«:%% denoising techniques are simple. actual  %%:«:.....
....:«:%%# denoising  for the  noise,  and maybe an #%%:«:....
...:«:%%#@            eq for the motor.             @#%%:«:...
..:«:%%#@#                                          #@#%%:«:..
.:«:%%#@## ##     what     is     it     for     ## ##@#%%:«:.
..:«:%%#@#                                          #@#%%:«:..
...:«:%%#@ i use  it for talking to when i'm drunk. @#%%:«:...
....:«:%%# it   does  this  very  good.  the  pause #%%:«:....
.....:«:%% button is a small stop,  the stop button %%:«:.....
......:«:%             is a major stop.             %:«:......
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........:«             ## some quirks ##            «:........
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.......... when unpausing, recording begins before  ..........
.......... the engine  is fully spun  up, resulting ..........
.......... in   a   nice   swoop  being   recorded. ..........
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........:« it    made    me   buy    a   vhs    cam «:........
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...:«:%%#@        rest in pieces, literally         @#%%:«:...
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.:«:%%#@##          : may twenty fifteen :          ##@#%%:«:.
..:«:%%#@#                  . to .                  #@#%%:«:..
...:«:%%#@         « july twenty eighteen «         @#%%:«:...
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.....:«:%%       superseded by the tcm twenty       %%:«:.....
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