Recommend Cassette Deck for up to £300

[Filterlab]

Nakamichi - accept no substitute.

Exactly this. There was little to touch the Naks.

[Landloper]

I and a friend never got rid of our (admittedly unexalted) tape decks. I have a basic Yamaha KX580SE and, by the bedside, an even more basic Denon DRR-M30. Still have a few tapes, mostly spoken word, but still have some Jorge Bolet Liszt recordings from Decca. Most alos digitised owing to their frail (chemical) nature. All I've had to to do over the last 10 years, other than demag and clean the heads, is to replace a drawer belt on the Denon. Amazingly the belts are still avaiable to buy.