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%**-~.....                                          .....~-**%
@%**-~....                                          ....~-**%@
#@%**-~...                                          ...~-**%@#
##@%**-~..                                          ..~-**%@##
###@%**-~. a   cool  enough   sony  walkman  called .~-**%@###
##@%**-~..                                          ..~-**%@##
#@%**-~...                  # # #                   ...~-**%@#
@%**-~....          ###  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.                  ..........
..........                                          ..........
.......... 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       .........~
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