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there are different kinds of head tubes. your frame has a 3 piece headtube, on the stanridge he used a stiffer and lighter one piece like this:
If you look closely you see it's thicker around the bearing seat. If you would cut it you would be left with a odd size tube. You could make your own ring for it, but that takes away from the initial idea of a one piece head tube..
Jaap
Which is my point, the frame builder chooses the headtube length to suit their design, cuts it too said length, then brazes in the rings. There's nothing that would/should have stopped the Chroma-flair frame from having a shorter headtube and a less extreme stem.