Alright so I feel the need to speak up for ameribrade. Hopefully James Helm will chime in as well as he owns an ameribrade.
It’s not made like in shop class, check out their Instagram to see they have a ton of thought and machining into them, also they have an ingenious tension system to allow rock solid tracking and changing belts without adjusting the arm ala kmg and pheer and esteem and nwg and bader.
Also I do not own an ameribrade, I have used a pheer and kmg and bader 2 and 3 and tw90 and burrking as well as the ameribrade. I would say it is as good or better depending on what features you like. It’s well thought out, very stable and durable, no vibrations. Pheer is a great machine too just felt the ameribrade was being mis represented.
Best line I’ve learned is a poor craftsman blames his tools.