Which Nakamichi to choose?

I have one of the 700 II's!  The official nickname is tve "TOASTER" its one if the more beautiful Naks along with the ZXL models.Nakdoc in Tenn who works on them among others told me at that point when the 700 II or a little after, playback in the machines had  fully matured. Mine plays back tapes well. 

I retire my Nak BX300 years ago but plan to revive it with new rubber at some point. I used it as a mixdown deck in my little analog studio (the final version of the "porta studio" Teac 8 track with DBX) for years as well as a main component of my hifi rig. Dolby C is amazingly effective in this 3 head deck, and the thing is built like a tank...a beautiful sounding deck.

Eying up a bx300 right now to go along with my 582.
My bx100 and lx3 being 2 head I may just buy another 3 head
Just because I can.....

Just bought a bx300 serviced and new idler so hopefully should be good to go for a number of years.
This will go into my second system (possibly) after I have compared it to the 582 in my main system and decide which I prefer in the main rig.

Probably paid too much bit whatever.

I gave a ton of cassettes away when I concluded the medium was antiquated. I'm posting to let anyone who has their deck in mothballs know that they had better drag it out and play it; those decks will quit working if not played.