Is my anti-skating too strong.

@sktn77a , please, inform us! What is BS and what is not? 

Yeah, please do enlighten the rest of us.  I am sure that anyone with a moniker that incorporates the word "skating", sans vowels and a "g", is expert.

@lewm , all bark, no bite it seems.

@jjss49   Thank you for posting the link to Peter's videos on AS. He seems like a really great guy and I think he did a great job with the videos.  I certainly am not an expert on this topic but what he was saying seems to make sense to me.

A question for all.... I had read on another thread that a person was experiencing distortion in highly modulated grooves towards the very end of the record.  I am wondering if that is a result of not enough Antiskating, or is it possibly just groove damage, or a misalignment of sorts?  He said it doesn't happen all the time but only on highly dynamic and modulated passages near the end of the record.  The rest of the record was fine.

Any thoughts on that?

Inner grooves are the hardest part of the record for a cartridge to track because the groove modulations (wiggles) are compressed into a smaller diameter and become more extreme in shape.  Wrong antiskating can contribute to problems with tracking, so in that sense you could say they "cause" the problem.  When grooves are highly modulated more skating force is developed, and therefore, more antiskating would be desirable.  But, as Peter Ledermann points out, increasing antiskating to optimize high modulation playing would mean that, for the vast majority of the time (when modulation levels are lower), antiskating is set too high.  That is why he discourages using test records to set antiskating for equal distortion in both channels at high modulation levels.