For VPI Unipivot Owners, do you use antiskating?

Bill-Peter Ledermann of Soundsmith fame ,had an article about anti-skating. He said that almost every re-tip he would do ,the cartridge would be worn real bad on one side due to wrong anti-skating. He used the blank portion on the LP. He said you have to be quick before it would hit the lead out groove. Like I said I find blank records work great for me.

YogiBoy...absolutely wrong. Skating force happens and is variable upon frequency, signal level, where the sylus is on the record (beginning, end, middle,where in the middle, etc.). Blank discs tell you very little about skating.
Test records? Once the stylus chatters in the groove, the test record is gouged and worthless. PEOPLE>..Just LISTEN. The placement of instruments, the ease of the sound, the ambiance,....all better w/o antiskate.

Stringreen--- What can I say? Soundsmith the cartridge retipper
is not correct? It works for me with my SME arm.Maybe the VPI
is different!

Stringreen. Peter Lederman has been a expert cartridge maker for decades, and a fine one at that. Don't you think he knows what he's talking about? Your response is arrogant. You are not the analog guru you think you are.

I didn't used to, and then I picked up a copy of the excellent Telarc OmniDisc turntable setup record. There is a test track specifically designed to help you dial in anti skate and without it, my Classic 1 with the 10.5 arm didn't fare that well (the AS force of the twisted wire is negligible). Once setup and dialed in though, I was able to play this track with both channels showing signs of distress at the same time.

A retip on your favorite MC is not cheap. Use anti skating. VPI sells turntables, not cartridges.

AnotherJBLnut