Are you using anti-skating or not


On my side i always got better result without using anti-skating.

And you?
dobermann
It's impossible to set appropriate antiskate for each record, at every point of the record. I've found that a (very) small amount of antiskate is a good compromise.

And no, there are no tracking issues, and I don't set VTA "higher than optimum".

I currently own 11 arms, and 5 TTs....
> Audiofeil
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>I use no anti-skating with any combination of 5 tonearms and 14 cartridges.
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>Don't need excessive VTF and there is no mis-tracking.
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>However, you do need a very precise alignment. This is critical.

This is exactly what i have experimented and think about it.
>>Audiofeil...Evidently your cartridges work OK with non-vertical VTF<<

No, evidently you are wrong about the necessity of anti-skating.
Just to clarify things...do you guys deny that a skating force exists? I accept that some cartridge/arm combos can function OK in spite of the force. But it can't help.
> Eldartford
>Just to clarify things...do you guys deny that a skating force exists? I accept that some cartridge/arm combos can function OK in spite of the force. But it can't help.

Absolutely not, on my side i just didnt see any advantage of using it.