Dear edgewear, My question was why the most Japanese tonearms
producer followed Stevenson geometry. As you probably know
according to Japanese culture it is ''not done'' to deviate from , say,
national customs. Then there is this curious FR-702 with assumption
that this ''model'' is made for European market. But this cart has
shorter cantilever than other from the FR-7 series. I even assume
that experiments with shorter cantilever was a kind of evolution
to the cantileverless kinds. It may be also the case that Ikeda
deed not consider tonearm geometry as very important issue.
Nobody has to my knowledge claimed to hear something special
by whatever ''0'' points by those tractors. BTW I own about 3000
classical records but only few of them have the ''inner groove''
near the spindle. This may be the reason for the ''bad reputation''
of Stevenson (?).