Azimuth 2020

What, is the big deal?🤔 You put za needle in za groove upright. Not sideways, upright. No problem boss.

After having reviewed the entire thread it would seem to me cleeds that you might own certain people and apology. I don't condone hot headed behavior and some people do have an unnecessarily short fuse. But, it does seem to me that you have a hard time admitting you are wrong. I think it would be sporting if you had those people re instituted. Threatened? what were they going to do. Cut your ears off? 
This thread has gotten way too complicated for the subject which is about as simple as it gets. A degree one way or another is not going to make any difference what so ever. All it takes is a good eye and a mirror and you are in business. If you do not have a good eye get someone who does.  $300.00 (fozzgometer) buys a lot of records or a nice dinner out with the wife so you can get away with buying more records. A dozen roses also helps. Us ladies love flowers🥰 

You think roberttdid, just how accurate do you think you are. I have an excellent eye but I'd bet my resolution is not better than 1 degree, maybe worse.

First of all cleeds I am not a him, I am a her. 

It seems there might be a problem with definitions here. 
With any offset arm changing the VTA will ever so slightly change the azimuth. Within a reasonable setting for VTA the change is trivial but it is proper to set VTA before setting the azimuth.  cleeds, you said something about a tonearm being "true." What did you mean by that.

While I am at it I have not properly introduced myself. I am a retired psychologist. My father was an old time TV repair man. He also was an autherized Zenith dealer and repair center. For special customers he would make house calls. I frequently went with him with his big black case full of tubes and parts, the things that frequently broke. It was not long before people had him repairing their Music systems also. A lot of it was Zenith back then, big cabinets full of speakers with the changers mounted under a lid at the top. So I guess this is how I caught the bug.

I was an only child and I think my father really wanted a boy. I willingly took the role, a bit too seriously. By the time I was 13 I had already broken 4 bones, my left clavicle, both wrists and my sternum. Dad called me his loose canon. 

By age 10 with dad's help I was building Eico and Heathkit radios and record players. My first record was Meet the Beatles. Dad liked Jazz. 
It is a continuum from there. I do not have a favorite format. I listen to everything. I love glowing tubes and big hot class A amps. Anything that plays a record is fine by me. We have to keep them pressing records.
Buying FLAC files on line is the new thing and I am contemplating exactly how I'm going to set it up but that is a topic for another thread. 

Greetings and Salutations All,
Looscannon