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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.             ,,~-;†§¤##
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¤§†;-~,,,, ##     what     is     it     for     ## ,,,,~-;†§¤
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¤§†;-~,,,, 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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¤§†;-~,,,,                   # # #                  ,,,,~-;†§¤
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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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