Uni-Protractor Set tonearm alignment

Dear Nandric,

Not so fast. I'll show you examples of tonearms.

Anti-skate from outer grooves toward inner grooves:

Constant : Clearaudio Unify, and simple counterweight
with string

Increases: Clearaudio Satisfy, and those using spring, and
most of magnet design

Decreases : Morsiani.
Here's the link :http://www.morsiani.it/

So, which one is correct or none of the above ?

I'll wait for John. He's a designer,and seems knowledgeable.

Cheers,

Dear Mesael, Morsiani is right.
He is right in that the skating force get's lower/less towards the inner label - i.e. decreases with decreasing groove radius.
As the contact area towards the inner groove wall decreases with decreasing radius, so does the friction - ergo the related skating force.
So Morsiani's concept does address the problem rather smart.
Cheers,
D.

Dear Daniel, why don't you get a cup of hot milk and get a good sleep also?
Ooops! I forget. I promised not to ask anything.

Regards, Mesael: Thanks for the link to "morsiani". The thought of skating forces increasing towards the spindle was not consistent with what little I understand about Newton's concept of centripital force.

Peace,

DT and Timeltel,
Given the nature of how the tracking angle changes over the course of the record (for any arm), I would expect the skating force to fall on its way inward and then start to rise again as it moves past the peak tracking distortion area between the null points. The changes in friction coefficient (which will, of course, depend on stylus shape) would affect this, as would any changes in VTF as the cart/arm track the record. Different AS methods should actually affect the VTF 'curve' (as a function of groove radius), as should the fact that the VTA/SRA angle will actually start to get steeper on the way back in. Kind of interesting to think about...

I am assuming that one's choice of alignment (or perhaps more particularly, the location on the record of the peak tracking error between the null points) will have some effect on how much skating force ceases to tail off in the last part of the record...

I've just given myself more stuff to muddle through, obviously...