Looking for tonearm inspiration

Anti skate should be in the vicinity of 10 % of the VTF. The most accurate way of measuring it is with a Wally Skater. https://www.wallyanalog.com/wallyskater The only problem with the Wally Skater is its price. A test record is much cheaper. 
I owned one of the first pair of Diva's produced. They were hands down Apogee's best speaker price considered. The Scintilla was a stop gap design with a ridiculously low impedance. The problem was you had to spend way more on amps to drive them than the speaker cost and regardless you were never going to get to Rock and Roll levels. I find it funny that a limited speaker such as the Scintilla could get the reputation it has. The Diva on the other hand was special. Flawed but special. After 6 years of playing with them I returned to ESLs where I will happily stay.
In part it was the flawed nature of their speakers that was in part responsible for their demise. Magnepan was very smart not to release a driver that was so easily damaged. You can still pop a Maggie tweeter but not near as easily as an Apogee tweeter not to mention the other ribbons are just as easily damaged.

Thanks R

anyone running a Denon 401 ?

raul, could you explain what this means? It was directed at me. Are you taking a potshot at my new tonearm?
Problem is that those designs are undamped/way resonant and second are balanced designs and just rings as a " bell " using a non-adequated mechanism to set the VTF ( @billwojo . )
BillWojo

anyone running a Denon 401 ?

me, and it’s the best denon tonearm for high compliance cartridges in my opinion @tomic601

I use it myself on my Luxman PD-444 and I always recommend this arm to a friends as "best buy", here is the system I put together for a friend with this DA-401 tonearm. Soon I will put together another Technics SP-20 with Denon DA-401 for my local friend, the plinth will be different (custom made).

P.S. Any tonearm with open silicone bath (like those overpriced Micro Seiki MAX series) is BS in my opinion, I hate those KAB fluid dampers made for Technics tonearms because they are collect dust all the time! In a month it will be a sticky bath full of dust screwed to your tonearm. 

Right on Chakster. If a cartridge is properly matched to the tonearm damping is not required. It is just a messy proposition. The only time you really need it is with linear trackers that do not have a mechanized carriage Like the Kuzma Air line. There is no way you can match any cartridge to the high horizontal mass. If you do not want your cartridge bouncing from one side of the groove to the other damping is essential. 
Personally, you are better off with a pivoted arm. If you want a linear tracker check out the Schroder LT or the Reed 5T.