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       superseded by the tcm twenty