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       superseded by the tcm twenty