A Quality Machine

During my first year of college, I did medical transcription using this machine to keep the bills paid. This machine made the experience easy. I had never done any sort of transcription before, and yet had no trouble operating this machine.
The front/back foot pedal is easy to use, and the backstep (the amount of time that the tape automatically rewinds when you take your foot of the play pedal) is fully adjustable, as well as tape speed. The controls are clearly marked, and easily adjustable. I shared the machine with various people on different days, and it was always easy to get back to my optimal settings.
One complaint - the included headphones. To be blunt, they're awful. They don't shut out any external noise, nor do they deliver a full register of sound. While it's not that important to have sound quality, sound clarity is key. In particular, where I worked, several people spoke with pronounced accents, and these headphones didn't deliver that quality I needed to understand them. The solution, of course, is simple - spend 30 bucks on a good pair from a company like Aiwa, Sennheiser, Sony, etc. and never look back. Particularly useful (though I never got the chance to use them while I worked there) would be a pair of wireless headphones. That way, you could easily stick the machine under your desk, pull the foot pedal through, and not worry about tangling your legs/chair on the headphones' cord.I also thought it particularly important that the headphones block external sound, but this would obviously only be useful for those people that do not have other duties in the office while using the transcriber.