That really sounds like a great tt with just varied degree of strengths and no weaknesses. Do you now use the EMIA across all your tts?
right now i only have one Etsuro Gold and one EMIA Silver SUT. so i have to switch them from the CS Port tt to the Saskia. but there are -2- 40db MM inputs on the CS Port phono, so in the future we will see where this goes. i can use the internal CS Port phono 63db input for my Miyajima labs Premium Be mono if i like. i also have an Ortofon MC Anna i can use on that 63db input.
right now my mono and the GFS are plugged into the darTZeel phono inputs.
regarding the Saskia, it has it's own character, which i'd say is tonal density, energetic idler flow, and a focused 'right-sized' sound stage. like a really 'tight' group of musicians. are any of those attributes 'weaknesses'? i doubt it. where the Saskia becomes different than other idlers i think is the designer's efforts to get it to be like a belt drive in it's ability to dig deep for nuance......which takes very low noise. it's fundamentally that way from the ground up, not just super-tweaked to rise above it's origins. and it weighs 220 pounds.
if you contrast it with the CS Port LFT1 with the linear tracker, the CS Port has this extreme delicacy and scale, a majesty and mystique and expansive musical view. so they are two views. i appreciate both and can get sucked into both. it's just that i've spent more time with the CS Port up to now and maybe had not really appreciated just how 'interesting' the Saskia was until now.