The Denon DL-103 is a "low rider". I run a DL-102 for eight years or so and never had real issues with warped records until the day I finished increasing the effective mass of my tonearm. The extra vertical inertia addition made the cartridge sing better than ever before but the "shorter" and "stiffener" warps un-dealable with.
If you got your VTA set horizontally, an extra spacer in the headshell will make the SRA/VTA dig in the groove "tail down". I don't see how that would help to deal with warps. And I doubt that this should be a good attack position for the stylus in the groove. My DL-102 really performs better with it's SRA/VTA set horizontal.
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