I concur that Clearaudio has THE best service in the country. This is the same guy who carries VPI and I know many, many satisfied customers of both brands. As for the Emotion, its hard to believe that US$1,200 "only" buys you an entry level table but then again, the C-Class is also the entry level of Mercedes Sedans (except for those funnly little cars) and that's a lot for an "entry-level".
Of the one's I've heard, the Emotion/Satisfy/Aurum Classics setup is just a shade under being unforgiving on poor recordings and give just enough detail to give one the feeling that nearly any decent condition clean album in any Genre can be delivered with both dynamics and involvement. Just my GBP 0.02 on the matter.