For VPI Unipivot Owners, do you use antiskating?

Just Try It Both Ways!

IT IS NOT THAT HARD!

I use the JMW arm, and have NO twist in the cable, and no "Dangling" weight type anti skate that vibrates.

I hear no inner grove distortion in any of my 2,000 Lp's, through my speakers, or STAX SR-009 headphones.

There are many more important adjustments that screw up the sound.

Start with those first, and listen closely, when making any adjustment.

It takes a lot of listening time, and very, very fine adjustments, for best results.

Most people do not have the patience, or ear, for accurate sound evaluation!

As far as Peter Lederman's advice on anti skate, remember he sells a cartridge with a cactus needle cantilever!

LOL!

Thank's Doug. ;^)

Kind regards,

A much more beneficial adjustment is making sure the azimuth is as close to perfection as can be made. Poor azimuth adjustment will give the listen no indication anything is wrong...but the magic happen with it is done correctly.

I prefer to use AS on my VPI JMW-10 arms since it provides consistent sound from both channels in heavily modulated sections, especially the last tracks of a side. I find I need much more corrective weight than provided by the light rubber donuts.
That said, it's hard to argue with physics.  The force vector which causes the arm to slide inward on a blank area and to reduce pressure on the outside groove wall is manifested at the tip. Static analysis means that the imbalance only exists at the tip. Unfortunately, the corrective force is applied at the arm which is projected through the arm, cartridge, and then cantilever bearing or pivot, as an outward force balancing the force vector at the stylus tip. The result is a nominally neutral force at the tip but an imbalance at the cantilever pivot point.  This force may be sufficient to deflect the cantilever relative to the cartridge. 
The ultimate solution is to use a linear or tangential arm for which anti-skating isn't an issue since they have no perpendicular force vector generated by an offset angle.