Dear VP, I guess I did get a little exasperated. But for a while you did not seem to be reading or digesting the responses to your question, which from the get-go contained the information you needed.
I was reading and digesting everything. I did not say that I agreed with everything nor did I say that I was going to "run" with any of it.
In fact, you seemed determined to ignore the good advice you got. Anyway, there is a learning curve for all of us, and we all learn from each other and from direct experience.
Certainly wasn't ignoring any of the advice...more like collecting it and trying to understand it. Now I do.
That experience brought home to me the effect on cartridge alignment of choosing any one of the major different tonearm geometries, in a way that I had never before appreciated or even cared about.
See - this is what I just reconciled after pouring through this stuff. Until I got the Mint - I never knew a cantilever from a bar of Level soap. I always thought - with all these protractors - if your stylus tip hits the arc at all points - you are golden. Better yet - jam the cart into the Technics jig..adjust and start rockin' 2 minutes later.
I apologize for sounding cranky. Glad you are on the right track at this point.
No prob...the comparison should be fun.
Cheers!
VP