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SME V tonearm - abnormalities in alignment ?

The SME V tonearm does feature no options to align offset nor overhang in the headshell alone. The mounting holes are not oblonged and the headshell is fixed and can't be rotated at all.
How can a cartridge be aligned to different arcs (Baerwald/lofgren, Loefgran, Bauer, Stevenson et al.) ?

Just be moving the base in the SME slide-frame?

Does the SME V do allow the alignment of cartridges with specific mechnaical parameters only?

Any other way - aside from small washers - to align lateral tracking angle (lateral azimuth) ?

Is the only possible option for a perfect alignment an individual alignment tractor for a specific given cartridge - like the MINT tractor ?

Does anyone have experience with modified SME V with custom made oblonged mounting holes and/or modified to detachable headshell ?

How to align the SME V to different zero-error curves?
dertonarm
dertonarm OP
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Dear Dougdeacon, I 100% agree with you on all points.
Thank you for your very detailed and precise comments.

I started this thread for Axelwahl - so to get the discussion away from my earlier thread which showed some tendency to concentrate on the SME V only. He however started a similar thread 20 hours later.
dougdeacon
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Dear Dertonarm,

I suspected as much. :-)

Still, your list of questions was so specific that it seemed useful to provide clear answers in a single list. Axelwahl or someone may find it useful, today or someday ...
dertonarm OP
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Dear Dougdeacon,
yes I wanted the thread as specific as possible and your post was excellent indeed.
I have posted a link to your post in this thread on the other SME V-thread. So I think most visitors there will have a look here too.
Thank you very much.
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