Thanks so much for the reply, Mike.
I didn't mean to imply there was a problem. It's just that I'm very interested in the Amadeus and in Bill's unconventional (perhaps brilliant) approach. But this is killing me!
It's like reading a mystery novel, but finding that the last chapter has been torn out of the book. If the blog just said, in effect, overhang doesn't matter, just mount the cartridge and go, I'd say fine. But it says the arm was designed for an overhang of 0.5". And it says that figure was determined by several carts in Bill's collection. If the design calls for a specific overhang, don't we need to know which carts will achieve that overhang when mounted in the fixed headshell? Not all cartridges will do that because they vary in the lateral distance between the mounting holes and the stylus.
I know you say that all this is addressed in the blog, but the blog leaves this question unanswered. I'm not trying to be a pain in the butt, Mike, but as I said, I'm just curious as hell. It's like trying to solve a math problem that's missing one critical piece of information. How do you solve 2 + X = Y?
Then again, maybe I am just a pain in the butt! Again, Mike, thanks very much, and sorry to be a bit obsessive.
-Bob