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       superseded by the tcm twenty