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Technically correct, of course, practically correct...?

If you align a cartridge according to Loefgren, Baerwald, and then Stevenson this will give you 3 different overhangs. Each is "correct", i.e. each is only an approximation for a pivoting arm.
That's what I'm getting at in saying that there is some play, or forgiveness when it comes to overhang in a practical sense.

In past I once had to mount a Benz Ref 3 in such a way that the overhang was too long. Could it have been better, I suspect, but it was very fine sounding all the same.

The alignment of the stylus to the groove is far far more important than getting overhang exactly correct.

"but then the moronic design of the headshell prevents the 'twisting' of the cartridge to allow for correcting the alignments at the two nulls."

Well if the cartridge itself is threaded, then yes, otherwise other than a badly off-kilter cantilever there should be no problem. How did you arrive at that assumption anyway??



Edits: 09/20/14

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