mint best tractor gone?

I do not see anywhere on this web site what alignment the protractor is set to. For modern systems the best alignment is Lofgren B. It has the lowest distortion over most of the record. It is only higher at the very inside of the record which is avoided by most companies. You only set very thin run out areas on old classical records. Records with run out areas over 1/2" avoid the high distortion region entirely. 

The most versatile and the most well made protractor is the SmarTractor. It is expensive until you compare it to the cost of a turntable/tonearm/cartridge set up.  It is also the easiest to use and it gives you the choice of all modern alignments. 
 

If the Mint uses Lofgren B then it would be a very good protractor at a very reasonable price. If not ........

Very often in the past several years, rumors of the death of Mint have been exaggerated.

For modern systems the best alignment is Lofgren B.

@mijostyn , agreed. For years I used Baerwald/Lofgren A. Switching to Lofgren B yielded obvious improvement. Wallytractors offer both curves. I believe Yip used Baerwald for the ones he made me long ago but I can find no documentary evidence.

So if I set up two otherwise identical tonearms and cartridges on the same TT, one using Lofgren A and the other using B, you could hear the difference?

I did a similar experiment two days ago, setting up a Benz TR on a Phantom Supreme using a dedicated Wallytractor’s Lofgren A curve, then the Lofgren B curve. All other parameters were as close to identical as I could make them. Lofgren B was (and is, since I am listening to it now) obviously better. Good enough? It is for me.