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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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.
The Beomaster 6000 looked great, but I wound up getting the Nakamichi 630. It's great.