Clearaudio Emotion/Satisfy Aluminum Package

Years of experience influenced the design of the Emotion turntable. The material used for the chassis is high quality GS-acrylic and aluminium. This composition of material yields ideal mechanical and acoustic properties. The maintenance free turntable-bearing uses a polished and hardened steel shaft, which runs in a polished and sintered bronze precision cap. The motor drive unit is isolated from the chassis and dampened.

The Emotion is being sold with the Satisfy Aluminum tonearm. It's an arm with extremely high structural and rigidity and low friction. This two-axis tonearm is handcrafted to the highest standards of precision. It implements handmade Swiss vertical and lateral bearings.

Clearaudio Emotion Technical Data

Manufacturer's warrantly: 3 years

Clearaudio Emotion Turntable, Satisfy Tonearm and Aurum Classics Wood Phono Cartridge
Sound Stage, Jason Thorpe, April 2004

Everyone loves to be pleasantly surprised, and that’s just what happened to me with the Clearaudio Emotion turntable, Satisfy tonearm, and Aurum Classic Wood cartridge. Its deep, authoritative bass and articulate midrange make for an energizing listen, and there’s a real synergy between the turntable, tonearm and cartridge. Also, the Emotion’s elegant appearance adds some additional spice compared to many of the frumpy wood rectangles that also compete in this price range.

TAS Reviews the Clearaudio Turntable
Absolute Sound, November 2007

But the vinyl was magic. My goosebump test for LPs comes when you set the stylus in the groove, and with that first note, the ceiling of the room lifts and music surrounds you utterly. CDs are wonderful. Clear, extended, easy—all those good things. But there are two sound qualities they cannot seem to get right: They never, on any system I have heard, get out from under the overhang. And they cannot quite set the players loose in a field of air and space. When the sense of being compressed from above disappears, music breathes differently.

When the players are surrounded by air and space, the music is enriched. And spatial information becomes miraculously lifelike. You will surely hear tape hiss and the noise of the cartridge on the vinyl. But in the twinkling of an eye, these will be eclipsed by the music— you are with the musicians in a place no other recording mode can yet take you. Not SACD. Not DVD-A. Certainly not CD, even on the best systems. The sound, specifically? This table runs smoothly, so there is no noise from the motor. With the Satisfy arm and Aurum cartridge, the music came through, lovely and clear throughout the audible range, light and airy. There was perhaps a slight tinge of grit in the highs. Nothing like the grit you get with bad CDs—more a glazy-hazy quality. And there was a touch of thinness overall.