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       superseded by the tcm twenty