best deck to get vinyl into iTunes?

Do you have a turntable, phono stage and a preamp with tape out, plus a Mac or widows computer with a microphone jack? If so, all you need is a RCA to mini jack stereo and Audacity set to either 24/96 for iTunes playback or 24/48 for portable Apple devices. Make sure you set Audacity for AAC Apple lossless.

I have a friend looking into purchasing the Project Debut III which I believe has USB out...

I just purchased an Applied Research USB Phono Plus that comes with SoundSaver Express Software that I think is a notch above Audacity. You can auto fill in track names for many LP's and the reproduction quality is pretty good. All for $79 bucks.