If your hi-fi stack is a fairly good one,i would go for a CD player/recorder which will allow you to record as well as play for just a few pounds extra, and as chuck says,these would also have the standard RCA connectors as well as the optical and text recording facilities which you might find are very useful features.Reason i say this is that i would always be wary of buying anything electronic with moving parts, secondhand...but you might be lucky with something if it were solid state.