Does removing anti-skating really improve sound?


I know this topic has been discussed here before, but wanted to see if others have the same experience as me. After removing the fishing line dangling weight from my tonearm I’m convinced my bass and soundstage has opened up. I doing very careful listening with headphones and don’t hear any distortion or treble harshness. So why use anti-skating at all? Even during deep bass/ loud passages no skipping of tracks. Any thoughts from all the analog gurus out there?
tubelvr1
Actually since the arm pivots then the tilt angle would have to be constantly adjusted during play. Since the tilt angle would need to be roughly perpendicular to the cartridge, and since no cartridge alignments result in it being perfectly tangent except at two points, then it would hardly ever be tilted exactly at the spindle. So you're both wrong! lol!

Got to say, whoever came up with this idea, its a beaut. I find it oddly comforting that however hard it is to properly play back a record (and it is really, really hard!) there's always an audiophile who can think of a way of complicating it to virtual impossibility!
Miller, Neither I nor cleeds is advocating doing what the op suggests. Let’s keep that in mind.
millercarbon
Actually since the arm pivots then the tilt angle would have to be constantly adjusted during play. Since the tilt angle would need to be roughly perpendicular to the cartridge, and since no cartridge alignments result in it being perfectly tangent except at two points, then it would hardly ever be tilted exactly at the spindle. So you're both wrong! lol!
You might want to read this thread more carefully. As @lewm stated, neither he nor I have suggested this method at all. In fact, we've discouraged it.
My final question to all the analog gurus...does an S tonearm require less or no antiskating? Is it an inherently better design?