Anti-skate

I don't use anti-skate at all. Those who do use it set it at the same or near the VTF you are using. I find it does nothing to better my setup. The purpose of anti-skate is to balance the inward force of the tonearm which comes from the cartridge's offset angle. This force is constantly changing with the loudness of the tone, the complexity of the tone, the sylus shape, etc. It therefore cannot be accurately adjust since at each point on the record it changes. Some tonearms don't have this adjustment at all because the mechanism that provides anti-skate on the arm can often create resonances etc. The choice of coarse is yours, but as I said before, I just don't use it.

I use anti-skate and don't set it anywhere near to my VTF setting. That idea of setting AS to the same setting as VTF was/is another boat load of crap many dealers and a few manufacturers promoted because they didn't know what the hell they were doing or it just didn't matter with the cheezy arm/cart combo in use.

The last track always sounds best.

>>The last track always sounds best.<<

Agreed.

Knowing it's almost over makes the last track of any Madonna, Britney, or Michael Bolton, album the best.

>>Agreed.

Knowing it's almost over makes the last track of any Madonna, Britney, or Michael Bolton, album the best.<<

Any of those are bound to cause irreparable damage to a tt and cart....