I personally had my alignment done my Harb Ski Systems as well. Not saying that they are the only place, but they are very good.
Having said that, here are some thoughts.
MasterFit is a good organization, and shops that have gone through their certification are usually pretty good.
They've had various machines over the years; the last that I saw in use, you stood on a pressure sensitive platform and it determined your balance by measuring the pressures on the base of the boot. It showed a neat diagram, and as a validation of balance it seemed reasonable.
However, I was just curious about the machine, I already had custom foot beds that were developed based on assessing my feet and the range of motion of my ankle. In my case I have forefoot varus so the footbed compensates for that to get me into a neutral stance. No one prior to Harb had ever noted that about my feet before. The next step is then measuring alignment and getting that balanced so that your pressure on the ski doesn't change as you flex your knees. And their philosophy is that you really can't do a complete alignment without assessing the results on the snow.
Summary: Good boot fit and alignment is really important, and especially alignment. I would at least give the certified bootfitter a call, describe your situation, see what he says. He might offer to do a free analysis; which would allow you to see if the services he then tries to sell you are of interest and/or make sense.
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