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vintage gear esp. tuners with controls on top

My vintage stereo rack has a spot for a turntable, but my turntable is now on a semi-wall mounted unit for better isolation. The spot the turntable is recessed, essentially imagine a box with no top you would have accessed the turntable from above.

But this is an opportunity, right! I could relive my life in the late 80s with a Tandberg cassette deck, but I dunno, can I really run that through my Vandersteen Quatros? Moreover, just what would I do with a cassette deck? Play one of my twenty cassette tapes?

A tuner would be ideal, but is there any decent tuner out there that has its controls on top?

Or any other gear that I can stick in there that'd make sense?
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intermediatic OP
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BTW I used to have a Rega Planet 2000 in there, but moved up to the Oppo BDP-95 since it seemed equal as a transport, but had a better analog stage and was a universal player. So there's another unit for sitting on top.

Still, yes I know there are vintage tuners (I'd say mid-1980s or older somehow my RM-9 amplifier strikes me as transitional) but I'm looking for ones that would have controls on top. Maybe B & O made something? Hmm
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How tragic. A B & O Beomaster 1200 would do the trick, except it is 1/2" too wide. The space is 20 3/4" wide by 18 1/2" deep. The 1200 is 21" wide.

It's in MoMA's collection and it's completely crazy looking (disclaimer: I'm an architect really I'm only looking to fill that spot with something that works and isn't completely ridiculous!).

I could've outfitted the tape out with a DIN to RCA cable and been fine. It's a tuner so I don't particularly care about the sound except that it not fry my Cary preamp as I will only listen to it every great now and again (if ever? I so miss Jazz Revisited although I guess being close to WFMU now would be a plus).
danielk141
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Google Nakamichi 630 & you'll see a tuner/preamp with an angled face. Maybe this will fit your needs. I've seen these sell for a few hundred dollars, in 7/10 or 8/10 condition.
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Very cool. Thanks Daniel!
kirkus
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Try the Beomaster 6000 (later type 2253) ... it's a cool piece with a varactor analog tuner and digital frequency-counter display, and I think it's a bit narrower than the 1200.
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