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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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...,~^*@£@         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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