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Anti skate question for Rega P8/RB 880 arm

I just replaced my cartridge with the same one I had (Van den hul MC-One Special) and I am getting conflicting advice on the anti skate settings. It is a Rega P8 with RB 880 arm. Rega says tracking force should match anti skating, Van den hul box says 1-25-1.5g tracking force, but only .2-.4 anti skate, and I have a tru-lift automatic arm lifter whose owner told me the anti skate should be 1/2 or less the tracking force on a Rega. That was after the arm was slipping off the lift bar. I moved it to about .75 anti skate. Before that it was set for 1. He was even saying you don't need anti skate.

Please don't tell me to experiment and see how it sounds. It is set for 1.43 g tracking which I don't want to touch. Thanks.
sokogear
elliottbnewcombjr
5,471 posts
 
sokogear

why do you have a TT? Better than CD?

Certainly not unless the fundamentals are done right.

Most of us (I think I can say), over time have had various turntables, various tonearms, various cartridges, 

It is not rocket science, just the needed tools, and careful patience.
sokogear OP
1,097 posts
 
YES Elliott. TT is better than CD or anything digital IMHO. But let’s not go down that road. I had a discussion on a very similar topic a couple months back that went very deep with I think 500 posts. 
This was just what I hoped would be a simple anti skate question which lewm and millercarbon helped answer so it was easily  understandable and didn’t involve buying anything.
elliottbnewcombjr
5,471 posts
 
my simple answer was

the smooth lp lets you 'see it' for real, $12.50 too much for that?

beyond that, as I said, I always write answers for OP and anybody else following along.

"you may have all this done, if not, for others following"


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