I was looking at Calacatta Arno myself...sorry, don't know the price....and just when I decided it's what I wanted, I realized that the samples were varying in the base color.

I have off white cabs, certainly not as yellow in undertone as most off-whites, but still, a milky white with a tinge of cream depending on the time of day.

MSI makes it and distributes it to a variety of stores, including Home Depot, which sells it under the Stonemark label.

The only base I liked was the milky one. The others had a slight grey base. No good for me.

Thus, I decided not to choose it as it would mean I'd have to travel the Bay Area when the time came and search for slabs with the right undertone, not knowing if such slabs would exist.

That's one of the great things about Cambria: their "formulas" don't change.

BTW, while MSI does have an American plant, it seems their language about where they get their quartz is sketchy. In other words, I think it comes from China and I think that is why some of the bases of their so-called "white" quartzes differ so much from sample to sample, even though they have the same name.

Good luck.

BTW, you sample looks like the base color I love.

Thank you, I am so overwhelmed and I am worried to make a big expensive mistake. Cambria is out of my price range that is why I am going with MSI

I totally understand. I am having trouble with choosing between two totally different styles of quartz because one will be easier--I think--to find a backsplash choice for than the other. Plus, I have a wall that makes it really hard to figure out where a backsplash should go, and three, this rotten economy/inflation is the exact wrong time to make any big purchase. I understand being overwhelmed. If you want great advice on such things as backsplashes and any other decorating ideas and advice for kitchen/bathroom remodels, try out the blog by Carla Aston. You could spend months reading her stuff and the advice she gives posters. I learned from her posts and her pictures why so many of my friends who had their kitchens re-done in the last few years have "something that just doesn't sit well with the eye." (It concerns where and where not to end a backsplash, particularly if you have a peninsula, which I do.)

Thank you so much for taking the time to give me all of this info. I really appreciate it and will for sure check her blog out