waytoomuchstuff,
I like the cuing mechanism, and really, I am sure that if I got serious, I could remedy the problem. The design is not hydraulic, but instead a cam with a lobe to raise the tonearm. Pretty damned simple but it really sticks and then, surprise! the stylus is almost in the groove! Believe it or not, it may be a matter of platter height. According the set up guru, the platter needs to be raised as far as it can go. This seems to be just out of reach of the keeper for part of the tonearm rest to glide down smoothly. I will try resetting the platter height lower and then adjust VTA, and probably all the rest that will be associated.
The speaker design that I probably have posted is a rear loaded horn design from Decware, using a Mark Audio 12P driver. Mostly I really like it, that is, until I heard a set of ORFEO speakers designed by Tony Gee of Humble Homemade Audio. Stupid name, I know, but the drivers are Seas Illuminator series. I have never in all my years heard midbass like that before along with so much of the spectrum.