Skating is real. Not compensating for it makes no sense. The geometry of Increased tone arm length does result in a lower offset angle but that does not decrease skating by any appreciable amount and is therefore not among the advantages of a longer tone arm. Creating a tonearm with zero offset angle does not eliminate skating. Creating a tonearm with no overhang does eliminate skating at the point of tangency as demonstrated in the video, but only at that point and in fact, beyond that point the arm produces its own “anti-skating” as it wants to return to the point of tangency!
Well, that’s a clickbait headline for sure, but unlike most it’s probably true, especially if you’ve taken my word on this. Yes, skating begins with friction in the groove and it is caused by a “vector force”, but skating is not the result of your tonearm’s offset angle, either at the head shell...
"the Acoustand Overhang Gauge is all the tool you should ever need to get the job done within minutes", that is only true if your pivot to spindle distance is 100% accurate, since the gauge depends upon that accuracy to accurately do its job.
Someone on one of the Facebook turntable groups asked what "overhang" was. None of the answers that I read properly defined it, (though a few talked about the head shell slots being involved) and I've forbidden myself from ever again participating on any of those groups after being called a...
In poker, "tells" are subtle physical or verbal actions that give away the strength of players' hands. I am not a poker player, but I am an audiophile, and I use a variety of "tells" as my prime tools in critical listening. You know my worn-out line: "You can't hear what you're not listening for."