VPI JMW 12.6i Plus Tonearm - Antiskate

I've owned the JMW-10 for a number of years atop a TNT. Setting the antiskate with twisting of the wire has worked fine and should not be a deciding factor in your purchasing decision. Harry Wesfield, who has heard and setup a turntable or two in his day, actually felt that the arm without the mechanical anti-skate sounded better. He only developed the tradional anti-skate because perceptions, like your's above, have cost him sales. Why not email him directly for his current opinion. I suspect he still thinks the wire method sounds best.

I have a 12.5 arm on a TNT-5. I also have the WallySkater that allows me to measure the amount of anti-skate force being applied by the twisted wires. By twisting the wires I can get anti-skate set within the desired parameters both at the outer grooves and at the inner grooves. And with no anti-skate devices except the wires, there are no parts to vibrate/resonate which is the problem Harry Weisfeld has stated he was trying to eliminate.