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.....,»**$                                          $**»,.....
....,»**$# a  cool   enough  sony   walkman  called #$**»,....
...,»**$##                                          ##$**»,...
..,»**$###                  # # #                   ###$**»,..
.,»**$####          ###  tcm onefifty  ###          ####$**»,.
..,»**$###                   # # #                  ###$**»,..
...,»**$##                                          ##$**»,...
....,»**$# it's battery powered (two  aa batteries) #$**»,....
.....,»**$ and has a microphone. it  does feature a $**»,.....
......,»** speed hole but it's hidden  beneath  its **»,......
.......,»*                  shell.                  *»,.......
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........., a  cool  thing  is  the  speaker  on the ,.........
.......... front. but isn't that a magnet close  to ..........
..........              the tape? yes               ..........
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.........,             ## is it good ##             ,.........
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.......,»* well. it  has some very real compression *»,.......
......,»** going on  so close vox  and  other  high **»,......
.....,»**$ 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.          ###$**»,..
.,»**$####                                          ####$**»,.
..,»**$### 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. $**»,.....
....,»**$#                                          #$**»,....
...,»**$## 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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