Starise
Just a suggestion to anyone who may be also trying to make a decision to use console emulation or not- 
 
If you happen to be using Sonar Platinum the mix scene save is very useful. Simply save a mix scene before you add the emulation and then add console emulation to all channels. The save another mix scene with the emulation...you can try this with all three emulations to see which you like best and easily A/B between them.
 
I think the best results are cumulative as Dan Cumpian mentioned not long ago. I was on the fence with using the emulations until I heard the results all added together on each track. Now I generally add consiole emulation to each track and Tape emulation on the master.Makes a nice glue and adds some pleasant harmonics.