a  cool   enough  sony  walkman   called 
                                          
                                       
            tcm onefifty            
                                       
                                          
 it's battery powered (two aa  batteries) 
 and has a microphone.  it does feature a 
 speed hole  but it's  hidden beneath its 
                  shell.                  
                                          
 a cool  thing  is  the  speaker  on  the 
 front. but isn't that a  magnet close to 
               the tape? yes              
                                          
              is it good              
                                          
 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.           
                                          
  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.             
                                          
              some quirks             
                                          
 when unpausing, recording begins before  
 the engine is  fully spun up,  resulting 
 in   a   nice  swoop   being   recorded. 
                                          
 it    made   me    buy   a    vhs    cam 
                                          
                                          
                                       
                                          
        rest in pieces, literally         
                                          
           may twenty fifteen           
                   to                   
          july twenty eighteen          
                                          
       superseded by the tcm twenty