As I said, I'm more than willing to believe I heard a couple of duff ones, and I'm absolutely delighted if people like their t/t. It didn't work for me, but then again, who am I to judge? A P3 vs an RPM4 with the same cartridge was like night and day.
If it makes the right noises (for you) and allows you to enjoy the music, that's all that matters. It (the Debut) didn't for me (I remembered my old Rotel RP-830 as being much better), so I went up a notch in price/quality. If it had chucked out the music as well as my previous deck, I'd have got one, no question.