Will fine tune adjustments with protractor help with "brightness?"

Silly question! 

brent,
bummer about the cartridge, thankfully it wasnt a moving coil.  

@erichsch 
i have read that technics tables use a stephensen alignment and assumed that the mint best tractor was lofgren because of the increased overhang compared to the technics gauge.  whatever flavor either truly is, the mint alignment sounds better and the protractor makes it easier to be accurate.  

@avanti1960
I just received the Mint Protractor and haven’t yet used it to align my Hana SL. Yip was pretty adamant in his email response to me that his protractor used Stevenson and that was the only option. I didn’t question him and insist on Lofgren, so what I got is Technics version of Stevenson. From what I have read, for most TT setups, Lofgren is preferred, not so for the Technics. I like the fact that the Mint Protractor has the mirror.

ericsch, If you've got both the Mint protractor and the alignment gauge supplied by Technics, perhaps you can determine whether they both result in identical mm of stylus overhang.  That might settle the issue regarding what alignment algorithm is being used and preferred by Technics.  Or at least it would tell us whether Technics favors Stevenson, assuming that Yip does.