Have around £400 to spare ….would prefer tapered headtube to suit forks i have.Any obvious candidates…?

Save up and get a new soul.

Buy my Enigma if you fit a large – better than a Soul. So light. I’ve gone SS.
1000 pound frame for less than 400.

Love my Kinesis decade virsa, swap outs for ss or geared, Tange tubing, not as ‘zingy’ as 853 they say, but miles more compliant than the 520 genesis it replaced. I’m a big fella, so I thought 853 would be a bit too flexy for me. slightly oversize downtube, which i think helps keep it on line.

Nice understated graphics as well. Which, as we know, is the most important thing!

One of those lovely carbon frames from China.