It's not absolutely perfect.  This toaster really toasts, so you do have to figure what settings you need to not get very dark toast and I'm not sure how it would do if you prefer light toast (I prefer mine on the dark side), but I'll take having to figure settings out any day to a toaster that barely gets toast warm and doesn't even do that if you don't pop the toast back down two or three times.  Really, I've been very disappointed in the toasters I've had -- none of them cheap either.  But none of them worked nearly as well as this one:  none of them toasted evenly front to back, not to mention up and down, and this one does!    I'm very pleased.