Derto: I can not engage anyone here on what you all are talking about on the arm lengths, set-up intracacies, et al - I really don't have the requisite experience. I listen, hope to learn a tad more here and there, but mostly I am just glad that my Graham arm is as easy as it is.
On my last post: I just wanted to try and help someone recall where they might have read something, nothing more.
As for the efficacy of published reviewing, I was a TAS reviewer many life times ago, so, please, trust me, no one understands its regressive nature more that I. That's why I parachuted out; it got in the way of the Music.
But I still read it because I like all of the pretty, pretty, pretty pictures...
And, basically, because I now accept it for what it is (i.e. a symptom of, what would be between us, a larger discussion).