I double checked the fit of the N97xe in my M92. It is tight and will not quite go flush to the cartridge body. It sounds fine however.
I should have mentioned that M92E bodies don't have the plastic cap-- at least, I can't find a photo of one with a cap-- but we regularly encounter used turntables whose original fancier Shure p-mounts did have the cap and had their fancy styli replaced with nice cheap N92Es somewhere along the way. Anyway, a capless M92E will present no obstacle to mounting a stabilizer-equipped stylus. As you found, a millimeter short in the stylus insertion won't affect the sound materially in any case.
Remember that the Shure brush supports itself and therefore subtracts its mass from the VTF once it's down on the record. That takes care of the "extra" 0.5g. But the superstructure that supports the moving brush weighs a little extra, so you do end up tracking a little heavier, but that's usually not a problem.My comment about removing the brush is that you need to add 1/2 gram of tracking force with the brush down. Most P Mount arms do not offer any or enough adjustment to get the extra 1/2 gram.
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