Tonearms without anti-skate, damage to records?

What about damage to the cantilever as well as the record groove.

Better off with a tangential tracking arm, no skating forces, no groove damage and no damage to the cantilever suspension from incorrect antiskate application.

I like the antiskate on my Victor UA-7045 and UA-7082 tonearms. There is a knob on the top with numbers that alters the tension on a hair spring. AS as well as VTA is set on the fly if you wish. Extremely well engineered and built.

I agree with others on here and dislike the weight on a string. 

BillWojo

antiskate delema....there is no such thing as correcting it for the entire record side.  There will be one spot on the disc where it will be zero and will increase or decrease as the record has or will transit the disc.  There are some arms where the 0 point can be set where the owner wants it (VPI), but the error is small no matter.  Track the arm with a bit more VTF so that damage/distortion is lessened.

Pivoted Arm: Everything's Relative.

Anti-Skate Not Perfect, true, just get it basically correct, and check it from time to time. Blank side LP method is inexpensive, easy to 'see', and quick. I check it back and forth in the two NULL point locations (general, not specific or measured), make the best choice, done. 

Then, Listen. refine if needed.

@dover,  unfortunately, not true for straight line trackers because of the very high horizontal effective mass. The stylus and cantilever have to drag this along and even with an air bearing you can observe the cantilever deflecting and if level is not dead on it can be a real battle. This is why the Reed arms and the Schroder LT are so exceptional as they do not suffer from that problem.You should check out the patent on the Schroder LT, brilliant example of lateral thinking.

@fsonicsmith1 you are right that many antiskating devices are rather crude. IMHO the best are magnetic. No friction and continuously variable adjustment. With the Schroder CB you can see the smooth adjustment with the WallySkater and there is no added friction. It also dampens the resonance frequency.