Best looking reel to reel

Many many thanks for all these useful suggestions to all of you.

As a teenager in the 80's, the 2 machines I dreamt of owning were the Technics RS-1500, or the Teac X-2000M.  I had neither the funds nor good reason to own one at the time... but now I do, and had just had a Technics 1500 refurbished by J-corder.   It's very cool and sounds amazing.
One thing to really consider is whether you want a 2-track or 4-track deck.  The consumer machines are 4-track, and play the tape in both directions.  Pro 2-track machines only play the tape in one direction, but use the entire tape width for better S/N ratio.  Some decks, like the Technics, have 2 play heads to play either type of recording, but it only can record 2-track.  
Both machines, I think, look pretty gnarly! 

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Otari and Revox were my faves, now I wouldn't mind having one of the United Audio rebuilt Teacs as they supposedly sound great with outboard power supplies and all that, but still…reel to reel seems too fussy these days, and expensive.

Evidently, most of you guys never saw a big Crown recorder in the flesh.  I never would have either, were it not for the fact that my first boss owned four of them, and he mounted them side by side by side by side on a single long shelf along one wall of his listening area.  Very very impressive, especially since he also had one room of his house dedicated to the shelving of his first-gen master tapes, which filled that whole room, floor to ceiling.