Recently got the above tape recorders,
The very tidy Akai bought first seemed ok and played ok without any internal mess plus plays and sounds nice. nothing came with it apart from the front cover.
The Fidelity shed was second that had seized up pivots and dodgy switches and volume and tone controls, so freed up all the pivots sprayed servisol on electrical bits and it plays ok now for a valve shed
(mucky and rusty) came with tape, reels mic and a lead (only bought it for the tape to play on the Akai).
The also very tidy Marconi had a lazy start with lots of tape on left reel, not much tape on right reel rewind, ok if it had a run up but if restarted it needed help to get going
After a bit of faffing about it seems ok plus it plays and sounds nice, came with tape, reels, 2 mics but no stands and a remote pause button and some other cables and the lid (some cables have reacted with some of the plastic it seems.
There are functions on this one that I'm unfamiliar with anyone got a user manual for the Marconi
I haven't tried recording on on any of them yet.
Jon