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A new way of adjusting anti skate!

I was looking at the Wallyskater, a $250 or so contraption used to set anti skate. https://www.wallyanalog.com/wallyskater  It is reputedly the most accurate way to set anti skate. Talking about fiddly. 

The appropriate figure is 9 to 11 percent of VTF. So if you are tracking at 2 grams you want 0.2 grams of anti skate.
My Charisma tracks at 2.4 grams so I should set the anti skate for 0.24 grams..................................Bright light!.
I readjusted the Syrinx PU3 to zero so that it was floating horizontally. I set up a digital VTF gauge on it's side at the edge of the platter so that the finger lift would be in the cross hairs, activated the anti skate and was easily able to adjust it to 0.24 grams. I started at 0.18 grams and just added a little more. Whatever you measure the anti skate from it has to be at the same radius as the stylus. If you do not have a finger lift at the right location you can tack a toothpick to the head shell and measure from that. As long as you have the whole affair balanced at zero you will be fine. Added cost $0.00 as long as you have a digital VTF gauge. 

I would not buy stock in Wallyskater.
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lewm
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Luisma, Depends upon how the AS device on your particular tonearm is graduated. I have often wondered about this.  For vintage Japanese tonearms and some modern ones that have magnetic antiskate devices, we typically see the dial marked in whole numbers: 1,2,3, etc. And the owners manual will often tell the user to set the AS device to a value equal to VTF.  This gives some of us the impression that AS should equal VTF.  But I wonder if in at least some cases, the manufacturer marks the dial as a guide only.  In other words, for dial marking of "2", you get an amount of AS that the manufacturer thinks is correct for VTF =2g.  But the AS may be much lower in gm of force than an actual 2g.  So when you say you are setting at 1.6 for a VTF = 1.4g, I don't think it necessarily means you are using 1.6g of AS.

luisma31
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trust the math and shoot for 9 to 11% of VTF

So basically for 1.4 gr of VTF use 0.14 gr of  "measured AS", towards the outer part of the disc of course

 

 

lewm
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Use an amount that does not give you distortion in the R channel (too little) or in the L channel (too much) and does not result in a deviated cantilever after several hours of play.  And then, forgeddaboudit.

luisma31
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But I wonder if in at least some cases, the manufacturer marks the dial as a guide only.

Agreed Lew, it is just a reference scale from the manufacturer

 

I am very impressed on my analog rig sound, the DL-301 although cheap it is incredibly good, rivals my digital, better soundstage

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astolfor
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@lewm I still not get it how the OP goes about doing this floating arm. Is he attaching some kind of string to the headshell and then zeroing the digital scale with no AS and go from there? 
Every tonearm has some degree of AS even when the setting is at 0, so even the smallest angle on the string would affect the value.

I use Analogmagic as my baseline, then move from there.

I believe that with either the Wallytractor (which  has the limitation of not having all the spindle to pivot arches) or the Smarttractor and Analogmagic I can set the cartridges very easily and precisely.

what are your thoughts?

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