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       superseded by the tcm twenty